RE: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
anne, not anymore the new air have 2 usb-c ports and the headphone jack. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2018 3:54 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: the

RE: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yes you can attach a dvd drive / burner to your notebook but unless you can find an older mac book pro in working condition such as a mbp 2012 / 2013 model which has the optical drive built in your stuck with usb and then of course with the newer mac book models they only have usb-c which your

RE: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
The only thing is that if you need both environments at one time then vm fusion is the better option but I do prefer windows in bootcamp rather than vm From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Ryan Mann Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2018 1:48 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Getting rid of interference by Daniel on my MacBook Pro

2018-11-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, It may sound a bit drastic, but I had to do this to get rid of voices I didn’t want. Open your internal HD and go to System>Library>Speech>Voices and delete the voices that are causing trouble. Cheers, Anne > On 22 Nov 2018, at 01:32, Michael Busboom wrote: > > Hello everyone,

Re: selecting noncontiguous items in a file folder

2018-11-21 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, That's exactly what you need to do. You need to make sure that you've interacted with the folder though. If you're just arrowing, then it won't work. So, interact with the folder then VO-arrow to the item you wish to select, press VO-cmd-return, then VO-arrow to the next item you wish

clarification

2018-11-21 Thread Lorie McCloud
I'm wanting to select noncontiguous items in a file/folder on my Mac with a keyboard. -- 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

selecting noncontiguous items in a file folder

2018-11-21 Thread Lorie McCloud
can anybody tell me how to select noncontiguous items in a file/folder? I have instructions here that say to press vo-command-return on them but that's not working. thanks. Lorie -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Pcloud

2018-11-21 Thread Lorie McCloud
does anybody here use Pcloud with Mojave? I tried it with Sierra but it gummed up my Mac sometimes. for instance, it wouldn't let the computer shut down. there are things I liked about it, but I dont know if I should install it again or not. thanks. Lorie -- The following information is

Re: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product

2018-11-21 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi John, I was at a conference in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago for Apple IT's with around 2000 delegates. It was very interesting to have both IBM and Microsoft in attendance speaking about how they use Macs in their corporations. This is not to say that they don't use other platforms as

Note taker or braill display

2018-11-21 Thread Rebecca Sabo
My name is Becky. Would help me purchase order but they will only pay for.? If so where in what suggestions would you recommend because I need more information Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Matthew Horspool wrote: Hi, Modern batteries in things like iPhones work on a

Getting rid of interference by Daniel on my MacBook Pro

2018-11-21 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, Ever since installing the latest Mac/OS update, I have been unable to get rid of Daniel, one of the language selections. My problem is that I want to use Alex exclusively for English, but in programs such as Mail, certain prompts and key echos are voiced by Daniel, and I don’t

Re: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product

2018-11-21 Thread John JD Denning
Well sad Tim. It’s funny many years ago in the 80s when I worked in the Mac community we used to say IBM stand for I buy max. Well today IBM buys Maxx. They say the TCO for the Mac platform is much lower then the Windows platform. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2018, at 18:55, 'Tim Kilburn'

Re: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product

2018-11-21 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yes, any company can have security issues. The real issue is how your personal information is used and how it is kept. Google and Amazon use your information in a much different way than Apple. Apple does not store mounds of personal information that is open to third party people for

Re: 8 dot mode in braille screen input

2018-11-21 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Jonathan, She is talking about braille screen input mode which as accessed on an iDevice. But you mentioned seeing dot 8 codes. Can you find that source again? Yes that will do accented characters and I would like to have a list. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com

Re: 8-dot Mode under iOS 12

2018-11-21 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
David, Another question. What codes include dot 8 in 8 dot mode? 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 11/20/2018 10:14 PM, David Chittenden wrote: All braille displays work the same under iOS in

Re: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
Actually, the air does not have the line in and line out jacks I require. The pro does or did, as other radio producer colleague of mine suggest it. Thanks for the idea though. Cheers, Kare On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Anne Robertson wrote: It sounds as though what you really need is a MacBook Air.

RE: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Tom Moore
Hi, I disagree that Bootcamp is better than Vmware. Yes Vmware does cost money, but it has tons of advantages. Having access to all the resources of the machine is not always required by a single os. In fact in some cases different os’s can run faster in a virtual environment than they do

Re: 8 dot mode in braille screen input

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe that dot 1 dot 8 produces a back slash as in what is used to separate directory names in Windows paths. I am fairly confident I have seen some accented characters use dot 8, but I usually was looking at DuoLingo in 7 dot computer Braille where the accent always uses the same two

facebook on an iPhondoes anybody know how to edit your comments in the facebook app? I can find posts but not comments. I write in braille screen input on there and sometimes I notice mistakes after I

2018-11-21 Thread Lorie McCloud
Thanks, Lorie Sent from my iPhone -- 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, please contact the owners or moderators

8 dot mode in braille screen input

2018-11-21 Thread Lorie McCloud
I'd like to know more about this. I usually use 6 dot mode but it has a number of problems for me. I really like computer braille so I think I'd like 8 dot mode. Now I understand what dot 7 does. what does dot 8 do? thanks. Lorie Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important

Re: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product

2018-11-21 Thread 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
Also, any company can have security issues. That includes Apple. So all this paranoya about Amazon and Google using your information is ridiculous. Regards, Shawn, Sent from Sophia, the MacBook Air Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username:

Re: Microsoft accessibility answer line practices for Mac products

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I have never called the access line, but when I had issues with the Skipe for Business on the Macintosh freezing with VoiceOver running I used the contact support item and got very quick response including having them call me at office on a scheduled time to walk through correcting the

Re: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
As you can see there is no correct answer to this question, it depends on how you expect to use the system. If you are primarily going to use MacOs, but want to jump to Windows for a few non-intensive programs like word than you can certainly work with the VM Environment. When you use a VM you

Microsoft accessibility answer line practices for Mac products

2018-11-21 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
I called the aformentioned line with questions about their products for Mac, and their immediate and repeated response was to give me the number to Apple Accessibility Support. I had questions about Excel, not an Apple product, and after 1 hour, and some asserting myself about getting an

Column title reading in Excel 2019 for Mac

2018-11-21 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Can it be done? How? Best, Antonio -- 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, please contact the owners or moderators

Re: iTunes layout?

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
In my iTunes, I can choose between Grid layout and list layout and when the interaction level is high enough when in list view, the arrow keys will read the entire row. Now, you can adjust what is in that row by looking at the scroll area of the dialog brought up with command-J (View Option).

Re: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Pete De Vasto
I’m on the VMWare side of the fence. I started out with Bootcamp, but it got to be very annoying to have to reboot each time I wanted to switch OS’s. The only tricky part, for me at least, is to know how to go out of your VMWare app into things like Finder, Mail, Safari or whatever, then come

Re: 8-dot Mode under iOS 12

2018-11-21 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
David, Thanks. It was dot 7 I was forgetting. I do think I need to find a complete list of the computer braille codes, mine may have some errors. I switched to UEB earlier this year as well so trying to get up tn speed. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that

Re: Clarification about alius folders

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
MacOS initially was developed by taking NextOS principles and porting over a file system that had the abilities to support MacOS 9 HFS file system. This allowed early Macintosh systems to run both UNIX and older Mac software in a that worked very similarly to VMWare Fusion in Unity view. Since

Re: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Anne Robertson
It sounds as though what you really need is a MacBook Air. It’s easy to carry around, has two USB ports, one thunderbolt and an SD slot. The keyboard is the same as the standard Apple wireless keyboard and you can connect a DVD drive or other external device. Cheers, Anne > On 21 Nov 2018,

RE: Apple Watch Exercise Ring

2018-11-21 Thread Matthew Horspool
Hi Jeff, I have an incling that the exercise ring on the Apple Watch adjusts itself dynamically as it builds up a picture of what constitutes regular activity for you. In other words, you may very well be doing 30 minutes worth of exercise, but if that exercise doesn't look much more strenuous

RE: iPhone Battery Guide: Charging Your iPhone the Right Way

2018-11-21 Thread Matthew Horspool
Hi, Modern batteries in things like iPhones work on a "charge cycle" basis. A charge from absolute 0% to absolute 100% constitutes a full "charge cycle". A charge from absolute 0% to exactly 50%, or exactly 50% to absolute 100%, would constitute half a "charge cycle". The battery has a number

Re: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Sandie Jazmin Kruse
I am a little in doubt about the drive, but i do believe Ipad pros have 3.5 mm headphone jacks on them. Sent from my iPad > On 21 Nov 2018, at 14.03, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > really? > My thought was that one could connect such a drive via the USB port, thanks > for that correction. >

RE: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
really? My thought was that one could connect such a drive via the USB port, thanks for that correction. Honestly? My desire is / was a macbook pro that still had a cd drive. In theory I might then use the iPhone for the few truly IOS programs I imagine using. my challenge with the macbook

Re: Odd issue trying to read menu on web site

2018-11-21 Thread Christine Grassman
> :) Yes, I saw that as well; I tried to get to the links, and I did send > feedback. Thanks. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Erik Burggraaf wrote: > > well, to begin with, the actual menu on the site is two pictures embedded in > the homepage. We are not going to get very far with that. >

Re: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Ryan Mann
I second the recommendation to use Bootcamp. Since Vmware is a virtual environment, you only have access to part of the resources of your machine. Naturally, this makes Windows run slower than it normally would. With Bootcamp, you have access to all of your resources. Sent from my iPhone

Re: Odd issue trying to read menu on web site

2018-11-21 Thread Erik Burggraaf
well, to begin with, the actual menu on the site is two pictures embedded in the homepage. We are not going to get very far with that. As a backup, there is a menu provided by a delivery company. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get the links two sections of the menu to work here on my

Re: VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi: FOr me, I was not so ok, with the VMWare, others can use it, but for me, it was not good. I’m now using Bootcam,and it’s working very very well. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:27 AM, masood B wrote: > > hello friends. i would like to have windows10 on my macbook pro 2015. i need > some

VMware or booth camp?

2018-11-21 Thread masood B
hello friends. i would like to have windows10 on my macbook pro 2015. i need some recommendations should i go with booth camp or VMware feusion? thanks -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

RE: the last Ipad with standard headphone jacks?

2018-11-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
Re the head phone question, I believe the newest iPad pro has a standard headphone jack still. You can't connect an external drive be it hard drive or dvd burner to an iPad. Is it atablet or a computer that your really looking for? -Original Message- From:

RE: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product

2018-11-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hell no not for listening to music. From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 8:45 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Homepod, was Not sure if this is off-topic it does concern Apple product I guess it depends on your priorities. I personally