Re: SIRI Mystery on Mac

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Simon, Yes, I do hear SIRI say something like “Here’s what I found… However once he/she says that, how do I navigate to the suggested links? Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Vision

Re: SIRI Mystery on Mac

2019-09-04 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Dave, It should be saying something like here I’ve found this on the web take a look, Then should give you a few links / urls to click on and have a read of. Sent from my iPad > On 5/09/2019, at 3:38 PM, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Here I am, with another burning question…I asked SIRI a question

SIRI Mystery on Mac

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Here I am, with another burning question…I asked SIRI a question and he/she said “Take a look”. Where do I look? How do I get VO focus over to wherever SIRI is pointing? Dave Carlson Pioneer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, Engineer, and Musician -- The following information is important for

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Aha. That makes all the difference. Drat to Apple for changing something that worked just fine in the past. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any que

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
I’ll try that later as I’m about to get ready to go to work, I don’t want to be late as I’ve been off work fore two months now with a broken wrist and this is my first evening back. I was playing round and discovered the VO+h twice and then I was able to arrow down until I found speech and was

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Ah, missed a key there. A few versions back the keystroke was control-command-option. But Apple decided that rotor usage was more useful than voice adjustment and so now one has to hold down all four modifiers to adjust Voice, Voice rate, voice volume, voice intonation, and pitch. That is cont

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Raymond, I’m confused, also. I do not get any change when pressing Shift-VO-Right/left, nor any effect with Shift-VO-Up/down. Is there a VO setting that we need to activate to get this to work? If I run the keyboard help (VO-K) it also does not identify those keystrokes you gave. Dave Carlson

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Sorry, I’m confused now. I do shift+VO+up or down arrow to interact with the area I’m focused on, I can’t work out how to slow the voice over speech. > On 5/09/2019, at 2:24 PM, Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > > Shift+VO+right or left takes you from voice fparameter to voice parameter. > Shift+VO

Re: Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Raymond Foret Jr
Shift+VO+right or left takes you from voice fparameter to voice parameter. Shift+VO+up and down adjusts the parameter you select. HTH. Sent from the first computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: Sincerely, The constantly barefooted Ray > On Sep 4, 2019, at 9:08 PM, Petrus

Beginners question

2019-09-04 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Hi all, I’m going to ask a really simple beginners question. Is there a quick way of speeding or slowing down Voice over on the Mac? I can’t remember how I did it but in certain places voice over is just a little too fast for me to hear correctly. If I’m reading an email then the speed is perfec

Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch, Apple Support

2019-09-04 Thread M. Taylor
Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch You can set up apps and accessories to send data to the Health app, enter data manually, and change how Health prioritizes data from those sources. How Health handles data from multiple sources The Health app takes similar data from di

Re: VPN’s?

2019-09-04 Thread KliphnShari Miller
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Re: How to Turn off VIP on Myself

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Okay, thanks. But it didn’t seem like I knew it was on or off, so we’ll see. I’ll look back later and check on it. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: How to Turn off VIP on Myself

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, If you press return on the Mail message, interact with the Message Header, you'll see a "Mark as VIP" button there. Press it to toggle it off. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Jamf Certified Associate Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 4, 2019, at 13:4

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Now I wish I was a little more organised with my email folders, I had a similar set of questions a few months back where I was trying to change the genre in iTunes. With lots of help and patients from Tim, ET and others I got there. If I find the old emails I’ll re-post them. Now this might al

How to Turn off VIP on Myself

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Okay, can’t figure out how I did this, but somewhere in the mail app I managed to set myself as a VIP. Of course, I should always be treated as such, but in practice, I don’t want my mail badges to count each time I send or receive a message. How do I remove VIP from me, or anyone else, for that

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yeah, because it's a complicated element, where it's a combo-box, entry field and pop-over thing, VO doesn't necessarily handle it as consistently as other elements. It used to be easier, but in the upgrades for the sighted user, it made it more cumbersome for that field for us. I've just

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Okay, so if I type something, then Tab or VO-Rightarrow to get out, but if I select one of the items using the up/down arrows, then I exit using the Return key? Is that what I understood? If so, I’m not impressed with this aspect of VO. IMHO the exit strategy should be the same, regardless of ho

RE: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Dave, It’s a list, Change it and then leave it. Also under the options tab there is a drop down that you need to modify also. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2019 6:54 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Tag Editor fo

RE: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Dave, If each album is in it’s own folder then you don’t need a different product or batch file to change this data, As tim said if you highlight the files in the album folder or all te tracks then use get info to change the album name, artist etc Give it a try and see how you get on, Don’

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, If it's a genre you use lots, just type the first few letters of it. So, for example, if you have a genre called "Easy Listening", just type the word "Easy" then either tab or use VO-right to move on. If you have "Easy Listening" and "Easy Rock", you'll usually need to enter "Easy r" to m

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, Starting to get the hang of this. Thanks for all the tips. One question has to do with changing the genre. This is a combo list inside the scroll list inside the dialog — I think you can wrap your head around that. So I VO-arrow to the genre I want, and then I get into some serious trouble.

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, So, using your setup, import the folder group that you wish to modify the tags on. Thus, these will be the only ones with the missing album/artist info. If you sort things by the Date Added, then you'll have easy access to the newest imports. Then you can select those newest items, cmd-i

Re: VPN’s?

2019-09-04 Thread jeff `greene
Hi I currently have ExpressVPN and have used Nord in the past. Nord really slowed down my connection so I dropped them. ExpressVPN is very accessible both on the mac and iphone. The one problem I have with it on the iphone is after its active I can't get email. I think I just have to change some se

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, I wasn’t referring to that dialog. I was trying to use the Song info dialog brought up via the VO-Space-M context menu. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Tim, I have a few hundred songs that have no album and no artist information in their tags. So when I paste these into iTunes, they end up in a group of blanks with just the song titles. So trying to grab a group of them from an alphabetical list does not work. They are in separate folders in m

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, That's a rather exaggerated and incorrect evaluation of the process in iTunes. 1. Select the items you wish to modify. 2. Press cmd-i to Get Info. 3. Navigate through the Info dialog editing the fields you wish to modify. 4. Press OK. All done. Maybe you can add a few steps if you plan o

Re: Speed test website

2019-09-04 Thread dan d.
With the terminal version, speedtest-cli, the destination server and more can be configured. On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I didn???t see any option to set the target server, > > But that would explain why the ping is so high. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 4/09/2019, a

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread Erik Burggraaf
I disagree with your definition of efficiency, but oh well. ITunes commandeers the files by broot force and then creates a 20 step process for accomplishing anything with them. Then heaven help you if you hit the wrong button, generating thousands of duplicates, corrupting your massive librar

VPN’s?

2019-09-04 Thread KliphnShari Miller
> > Looking for an accessible VPN for iPhone and Mac. It seems the top 3 are > Express VPN > NordVPN > And hotspot shield. > Has anyone used any of these on both iPHone and Mac, if so are they > accessible, is one more accessible than the other? Thanks. > > > Come checkout the Stur it up pod

Re: Tag Editor for Batch Editing Music Files

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, What sort of issues are you having when doing this in iTunes? Using the Info dialog in iTunes, you can easily do what you want individually or in bulk. I've used it extensively for this exact process. There are likely other tools out there, but I haven't bothered to look since iTunes is

Re: Speed Test Results - Was: Double-Tapping to Send Mail?

2019-09-04 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, T?here is also an app for your Mac available in the Mac App Store. It is more accurate when dealing with speeds over 100 Mbps. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Jamf Certified Associate Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 3, 2019, at 23:53, Simon A Fogar

Re: A Strange Speaker Sound Scenario with Mark's Apple Watch, Series 4, with LTE

2019-09-04 Thread Angie Nutt
I’ve had the problem with the first watch which came out and now again with the 3rd gen. It’s been like it for a while, never clears up. When I get round to it I’ll try repairing again and see if it works. All the best Angie > On 3 Sep 2019, at 13:02, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrot