Re: Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks for all the information folks, I took a shop vac to the MBA, trying not to suck the keys off the keyboard, and it actually seems to have helped. I thought it might’ve been dust and dirt buildup amongst other things and ,fingers crossed a good vacuuming seem to help a bit.Sent from my

Re: Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, I had an iMac from 2013 that could only run Catalina. That thing ran pretty slow even after a fresh install and I just assumed it was old hardware. The machine finally died after 10 years after a storm fried up the system. I gave it to someone who need a system since hers was out. In

Fwd: [Tech-VI] Microsoft Copilot app arrives on iOS, bringing free ChatGPT-4 to iPhone and iPad

2023-12-29 Thread Kelly Ford
Nice, This runs on the silicon-based Macs as well. https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/12/30/microsoft-copilot-app-arrives-on-ios-bringing-free-chatgpt-4-to-iphone-and-ipad/ > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "David Goldfield via groups.io" > Subject: [Tech-VI] Microsoft Copilot app arrives

Re: Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread Brad Snyder
Before doing anything, I would wait and see if the fan activity ceases after a while. Could be that the newly installed OS is busy indexing data, and once this process is completed, the fan activity will return to normal. - Brad - On Dec 29, 2023, at 16:59, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Another

Re: Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Another possibility besides more resource intenvive software, is dust or link buildup in the venting areas. If you have a nearby Apple store, there is a good chance, that they will take the cover off the bak and blow out accumulated dirt in the system for free. If not, iFixIt should have the tools

Re: logging into BARD on Safari on a Mac

2023-12-29 Thread Lorie McCloud
yeah. I bookmarked it and deleted the. old one I was using. > On Dec 28, 2023, at 11:46 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > Great. Save that link, and you should be good going forward, > > - Brad - > > > > On Dec 28, 2023, at 23:13, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > yep. that worked. thanks. > >> On Dec

Amazon Prime Apple TV app channels

2023-12-29 Thread sarai.bucciarelli
Wow: What did they do to the Apple TV Prime video app? I cannot locate any of my subscribed channels, or purchased movies. Nothing is appearing under my stuff. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Messenger for Mac.

2023-12-29 Thread joseph hudson
Hi Anders, I finally managed to download it and find it. However, it appears to be an accessible. Once I downloaded it, I proceeded to go to my downloads folder and open, was able to put in my email address to login, and then I got to the password area and what is unable to type in my password.

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread Michael Babcock
Someone shared this on mastodon the other day, and it blew my mind. Hopefully it'll help you! What I suggest is map these to either numb pad or keyboard commanders, and then you can toggle the behavior of your caps key on the Mac. I'll copy the read me below. I'll share a link feel free to

Re: Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Phil: I still use my 2013 era Mac Air. I am fully updated to Big Sur, the lates it seems there will ever be for those older machines. I can easily get my Air into a situations where the fans are running almost constantly. My solution is to minimize how many applications I keep open on the Air.

Re: VMware Fusion/Player

2023-12-29 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Let's say that I stumble along with the Mac Terminal whilst on the road with my Macbook. For me it's horribly clunky to do much of anything command line through that app, but it's not impossible in most situations. This thread suggests to me that I should take another look at Parallels, though. I

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread Phil Halton
I remember that sharp keys was the solution I used several years back when I was using VMware to run windows on a Mac. I think at that point VMware also had a facility to do some key remapping and I use that method as well. You won’t go wrong using sharp keys though. I’d kind of like to set up

Ailing 2013 MacBook Air

2023-12-29 Thread Phil Halton
I have an older MacBook Air from 2013 that is exhibiting a heck of a lot of fan activity these days. I upgraded to a MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro chip and I’m very happy with it but I’m trying to put some use to the old air. Last night I reinstalled the operating system after doing some first

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread 'Matt Turner' via MacVisionaries
I’ve heard of that. I’ve also tried vm where and could never get it to work. > On Dec 29, 2023, at 11:58 AM, Kelly Ford wrote: > > Hello, > > The solution I use here is to remap a different key on the Windows VM to be > Capslock. I typically turn the accent/tilde key into Capslock. You can

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread Kelly Ford
Hello, The solution I use here is to remap a different key on the Windows VM to be Capslock. I typically turn the accent/tilde key into Capslock. You can find a program called Sharp Keys to do this. It basically edits a registry value. You can also look for PowerToys in the Windows App Store.

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread 'Matt Turner' via MacVisionaries
to set it up, I have to use VOCR to read the screen. My VO key is caps lock key. it’s like the VM doesn’t see the key. > On Dec 29, 2023, at 11:44 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Are you saying that parallels is now accessible at least to some degree? I > thought it was a complete black box for Mac

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread Phil Halton
Are you saying that parallels is now accessible at least to some degree? I thought it was a complete black box for Mac voiceover usersSent from my IPhoneOn Dec 29, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:As  strange as it seems, telling VoiceOver to use the CAPSLOCK key and keeping VoiceOver

Re: Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
As strange as it seems, telling VoiceOver to use the CAPSLOCK key and keeping VoiceOver running while in Windows might resolve this issue. It did for me with VMWare 3 years ago. On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 11:02 AM 'Matt Turner' via MacVisionaries < macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi

Using Parallels

2023-12-29 Thread 'Matt Turner' via MacVisionaries
Hi folks. I still have and intel mac and wanted to get a new one in the new year. I’ve been playing with Parallels, and so far I like it. I just can’t seem to get the Caps lock key to work with Jaws or NVDA. Does Anyone have any idea? -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: VMware Fusion/Player

2023-12-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes of corse. I do understand that. But do things work for you now? Bless. /A > 29 dec. 2023 kl. 03:14 skrev 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > : > > Not me. Not enough room in my suitcase, which is when I need the Mac > hosted Linux. I've a perfectly good native Linux in my office. I want

Re: Messenger for Mac.

2023-12-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Oh, will check things out anyway. Bless. /A > 28 dec. 2023 kl. 20:39 skrev Herbie Allen : > > They have an app which is fully accessible. The only thing I don’tlike it > does not seem to give me notifications. > >> On Dec 28, 2023, at 11:06 AM, joseph hudson wrote: >> >> You can go to