Re: cd player/burner

2024-01-07 Thread Lorie McCloud
no. it wasn’t upside down but I did check that because I’d never had that happen before. my player wasn’t plugged in properly so it thought it was unplugged. wouldn’t accept a cd. > On Jan 6, 2024, at 9:05 PM, John Dowling <1008...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's very weird. Are you sure you have

Re: cd player/burner

2024-01-07 Thread Lorie McCloud
yeah. it was the first thing. I checked. I finally figured out what was going on. it had to do with where it was plugged in. > On Jan 7, 2024, at 5:49 AM, Tom Rash wrote: > > My only suggestion is to make sure that the CD is right side up when > inserting it into the player. I’m sure you’ve

Re: editing an open Instacart order

2024-01-07 Thread Lorie McCloud
I usually do this on the phone. if you’re in the cart and looking at contents swipe up or down on the. item you want to remove. I say up or down because one way is to remove it and the other is to add another one. it’ll tell you what’s what once you’ve swiped. I’ve known them to rearrange this

Re: Shutting off series annoying back to back request feature

2024-01-07 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Brad I could’ve used that information along time ago. You’d think that that would have been much more widely known. Actually, apples advice wasn’t so much incorrect as perhaps unnecessary. It does work as I said it would, but knowing all I have to do is thank the little bitch is even

Re: Shutting off series annoying back to back request feature

2024-01-07 Thread Brad Snyder
The workaround information you received from Apple is incorrect. To dismiss the Siri Follow-Up feature, all you have to do is simply tell Siri "Thank You." Siri will respond, "You're Welcome", and the SiriFollow-Up feature is dismissed. - Brad - On Jan 7, 2024, at 12:22, Phil Halton wrote:

Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

2024-01-07 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi Brandon! I can understand why you want to go back to Windows. I would like to have a windows computer since things are a bit easier on the Windows platform. Mac still works for me but it has some annoyances. Bless. /A > 6 jan. 2024 kl. 22:24 skrev Brandon Olivares : > > Literally can’t

Shutting off series annoying back to back request feature

2024-01-07 Thread Phil Halton
The workaround according to Apple Accessibility to get Siri to stop listening for additional requests as though you’re having a fluid conversation with her is to turn on the “type to Siri“ feature in Siri settings. Then, using hey Siri you will only get a single interaction with Siri and not a

Re: editing an open Instacart order

2024-01-07 Thread Patrick Ford
I have used two ways for this - 1 is to use a swipe up or down gesture on the item and it will add or remove the item - 2, click on the item and it will bring you to the pop up page where you can swipe toward the bottom to remove it by swiping on the item amount until zero and then at the

editing an open Instacart order

2024-01-07 Thread sarai.bucciarelli
Hi all: I needed to remove an item from an open Instacart order. I ended up having to use the computer, and not use Voiceover on my phone. I even tried screen rec with no luck. Is there a trick to this? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: cd player/burner

2024-01-07 Thread Karen Lewellen
Indeed that tends to mean that for whatever reason the CD content is not being seen. If you have a clean microfiber cloth, give the disc a gentle rub, even a fingerprint can keep one from being read correctly. On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Tom Rash wrote: My only suggestion is to make sure that the

Re: cd player/burner

2024-01-07 Thread Tom Rash
My only suggestion is to make sure that the CD is right side up when inserting it into the player. I’m sure you’ve taken that into consideration though. Good luck. > On Jan 6, 2024, at 6:35 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I have my cd player hooked up to my new Mac. I got it in 2014 when I

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 7/1/24 06:46, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: Preview does pretty well on PDF that embeds postscript fonts, imo. It does not do so well on graphical images of text characters, and it does not directly offer the option to OCR those files. Try VO-Shift-L (image description) with the

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Tom, The application Preview is always available on mac OS; you will find it in your applications folder and most likely on your dock if you press control + F3 key or control + option + letter D, and then start typing preview, you should land on it. Press enter and it will open. It is

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Ah, the wonderful world of "should!" Preview does pretty well on PDF that embeds postscript fonts, imo. It does not do so well on graphical images of text characters, and it does not directly offer the option to OCR those files. It's important to know there is this fundamental difference in the

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread Tom Rash
I am also pretty new to the Mac. I don’t get many PDF files. Do I need to get this preview app, or is it just available when needed. I don’t remember having a problem reading PDF’s. > On Jan 6, 2024, at 2:04 PM, Maurice A. Mines wrote: > > Hi it is grate to hear that you have a