New IPhone 3GS list regarding accessibility

2009-06-12 Thread Cara Quinn
Hello All; I've just started a list called VIPhone, (Visually Impaired - IPhone) on GoogleGroups to discuss the new Apple IPhone 3GS. the url is: http://groups.google.com/group/VIPhone Please feel free to share this url anywhere you like, to anyone you feel might want to

Re: New IPhone 3GS list regarding accessibility

2009-06-12 Thread Cara Quinn
the list run smoothly for all of us, or as many as possible, not just a few of us. Thanks for your note and have a nice weekend!… Sincerely, Cara :) Best wishes Simon On 12 Jun 2009, at 21:47, Cara Quinn wrote: Hello All; I've just started a list called VIPhone, (Visually Impaired

Re: unsubscribe

2009-06-01 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Jeffrey, just unsubscribed you. Sorry the captcha is getting in the way; for future reference, check out: http://www.solona.net It's a site that helps VI / blind people with captchas. Feel free to join back up with us anytime, and have a great evening!… Smiles, Cara :) ---

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing! this is exactly the kind of thing I personally love to hear. I'm glad that Apple is really stepping this great level of service up even further. For someone with or without a disability to go into a store and really be shown not only equal

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?… Is this really what your saying with the

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
, Cara, Meaning no disrespect. This is useful so that we don't all hale Apple with E-mails and the like and they refuse us help. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 6:28 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Alex, and All, please only post notes with relevant information in them. Unless we can share some

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Alex, yes, this *might* be useful however, quite honestly, (meaning no disrespect as well) No one cares whether you or anyone else has discussed whatever with whomever, unless you share something conclusive about it. Know what I mean?… If I posted something

Re: iTunes was killed for cause

2009-05-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Jude, perhaps I've missed it; is there a question here for the list? I've personally never heard of ITunes / Apple doing this sort of thing. Were you given a reason and have you followed this up with Apple? ITunes does have a support page and there is also an old invention called

Re: mac protection plan

2009-05-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Jude, thanks for your note, however, in future, might you / others flesh these sorts of notes out a bit with more relevant details / links and such? This looks like it's meant as a response to something, but the something isn't clear! smile Just as an FYI, it seems as if you're

Re: mac protection plan

2009-05-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey Josh, thanks for the note! Yes; I completely agree. I'm betting Jude has some very good sources, so am looking forward to those links when he posts. this sort of thing is obviously very important to the Mac community as you've said… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter!

IMPORTANT! Please read - List Guidelines Update

2009-05-24 Thread Cara Quinn
hey All, first off, let me simply apologize for my seeming absence over the past few weeks; Not only do I have a very busy life outside of this list, smile but have also had some seriously annoying internet issues over the past two weeks or so as well… So I do hope you'll forgive the

Re: iTunes was killed for cause

2009-05-24 Thread Cara Quinn
enough to disable an account. Just my thoughts. Thanks, Alex, On 24-May-09, at 4:16 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: alex, please explain the below if you would? I'm not following you here… Thanks so much and do have a lovely day!… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https

Re: Reclaiming unallocated space on an HD

2009-04-11 Thread Cara Quinn
Message - From: Cara Quinn caraqu...@caraquinn.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:03 PM Subject: Reclaiming unallocated space on an HD Hey All, Happy Friday to you!… I'm wondering if there's an accessible way to reclaim unallocated HD space? I.E. I

One line posts - Please read…

2009-04-11 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey All, hope yer having a terrific weekend! I just wanted to send along a quick reminder for you all to please be aware of sending one-line posts / responses to the list… I.E. This is not chat. This is an email list. smile If you have a short response, please do take care to make

Re: Reclaiming unallocated space on an HD

2009-04-11 Thread Cara Quinn
. Thanks, Alex, On 10-Apr-09, at 6:03 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey All, Happy Friday to you!… I'm wondering if there's an accessible way to reclaim unallocated HD space? I.E. I currently have three partitions on my internal HD, and I've resized one to free up 5 gb of space that I'd like added

List topic reminders (revision) Please read!…

2009-04-09 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey All, happy THU / FRI! I've made a few slight revisions to the on / off topic list for MacVisionaries, so I thought I'd post it here for your reading pleasure. smile Please do take just a minute or two to read through this as I believe a couple of points needed clarifying. My

Re: iTunes 8.1.1 available

2009-04-06 Thread Cara Quinn
This version is MUCH more responsive for me, so hopefully you'll like it! It's also possible (as Mark says) to again, tab between controls! OMG! this is a time saving relief! feeew! Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at:

OpenFire 4.3.1 and Jabber / IChat

2009-04-04 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey All, -Not the way I want to top off a lovely Friday eve, but I hadn't been able to start OpenFire to log into my local Jabber server with IChat. So I reinstalled OF 4.3.1 (an old ver, I know) and reconfiged it. All was fine until I came to the screen to add server plugins. the

Re: IBook Adapter was Re: Hard Drive Access.

2009-04-01 Thread Cara Quinn
the same again:) /sandi:) On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Thanks Cara, I suspected that is what they were. I'm amazed Sandi got them out with a knife. I guess this means she's really Sandi McGiver. :) On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey Scott

Re: Hard Drive Access.

2009-03-31 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey Scott, they are star-shaped TORX drive screws. And yes, to those curious, I too have replaced ram and HD in one of my white MacBooks. So yes, it can easily be done by a VI / blind person (and a blonde! lol!) if they read well, the instructs and follow them. Check with Apple

Re: strange iTunes problem

2009-03-31 Thread Cara Quinn
Jessi, are the tracks you're playing, videos?… I ask, as you may need to close the video window when this happens. Once you start playing a video, and pause it, you can bring up a context menu on it and there should be an option to 'close video window.' If this is the issue,

Re: VO not reading when composing in Mail

2009-03-26 Thread Cara Quinn
-Morning Everett! Yes, this apparently has something to do with the version of the html rendering engine used in the new Safari 4 beta. I've been able to restore the proper behavior by tabbing out of, and then back into the message body while editing / reading / composing a message.

Re: New Mac man in town!

2009-03-26 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey Tom; Welcome to the list! I'll be including this info in the list welcome message very soon, but for now, here is our latest revision of MacVisionaries etiquette, so to speak. smile If anything doesn't make sense or you just have any questions at all regarding list policy

Re: New Mac man in town!

2009-03-26 Thread Cara Quinn
related to the iPhone but in the meantime the iPod is a common topic on the list although not exactly VO related. CB Cara Quinn wrote: Hey Tom; Welcome to the list! I'll be including this info in the list welcome message very soon, but for now, here is our latest revision

Re: xcode issue

2009-03-26 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Michael, you can get the latest version of XCode and XCode tools (one disc image) from the downloads section of: http://developer.apple.com YOu'll need an account, which is free. Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn On Mar 26,

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Cara Quinn
smile Are you guys *trying* to make my life difficult? lol! The vote on this already happened last week and everyone was told about it in advance. the results came in and I posted them. So please, can we simply get back to the topics at hand?… I'm posting this to the list now

Re: Off Topic: Poll on how to make paper money accessible

2009-03-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Okay, this is getting tiresome… Many of you already know what I'm about to say… smile To those who don't, or whom don't care, yet should, please do close this topic immediately!!! Okay, just so you all know, the next person who deliberately initiates an Off-topic thread here

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-24 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Greg, well you answered your own question. :-) Anything Mac- related is certainly on topic. I'm sure sorry you feel like this is 'wrath' but I've gotten *many* requests / complaints from list members whom pay for bandwidth, or have limited time in which to read list mail, but

Important!!! - Re: Poll Results

2009-03-19 Thread Cara Quinn
to have to opt out. Thanks for asking! Have an awesome week and weekend! JG On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Cara Quinn caraqu...@caraquinn.com wrote: Hey All; Thanks to all of you who voted!… YOU ROCK!!! :) louie louiem...@wavecable.com

Re: Restoring with Time Machine

2009-03-18 Thread Cara Quinn
and I got everything back. As a note, I did this after the install during the setup when you are offered choices of choosing to restore from another volume or from a time machine backup. On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey All, happy Wednesday to you!… Okay, I have an issue

Re: Restoring with Time Machine

2009-03-18 Thread Cara Quinn
Care On Mar 18, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: John, where were you offered the choice of dates from which to restore?… I didn't see this at all. I chose restore from a Time Machine backup, but didn't see any place to enter or choose a date. Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online

Voting -and- OT posts

2009-03-16 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey All, just two quickie things this lovely Monday evening… Firstly, our list poll is still up at: http://poll.pollcode.com/jg97 I'll officially honor votes until Wednesday, March 18 at 4:00 PM PDT (california US) so vote vote vote! smile The poll, I believe will actually stay

Re: charging PDA's

2009-03-15 Thread Cara Quinn
Will, you should be able to charge any usb device on the Mac. As you well know, the usb on the Mac is standard. So this really would be a feature concerned with your device itself. For future reference, really these sorts of questions that are essentially non-Mac related and more

Re: charging PDA's

2009-03-15 Thread Cara Quinn
, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Cara Quinn wrote: Will, you should be able to charge any usb device on the Mac. As you well know, the usb on the Mac is standard. So this really would be a feature concerned with your device itself. For future reference, really these sorts of questions

IMPORTANT - Pole about future of MacVisionaries

2009-03-10 Thread Cara Quinn
Hello all, first off, please do not reply to this note. Details are below on this. I think I've come up with a workable solution for those listers who want a more informational list as well as those whom would like a more social environment in which to discuss Mac use as visually

Re: time zone

2009-03-07 Thread Cara Quinn
at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Cara Quinn wrote: Dean and Eliza, you sure can change the timezone with VO. smile Simply type a city in your timezone in the edit field and there you go. If the one you typed in isn't recognized, then go

Re: IWork and ILife

2009-03-06 Thread Cara Quinn
wrote: Hi, Cara et al: I was merely continueing the thread on whether ILife and IWork were accessible. So, in stating what I was doing, I hoped to convey that Apple is working with me to rectify the issues in ILife 09. Thanks, Alex, On 5-Mar-09, at 6:50 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Alex

Re: mail problem with voiceover.

2009-03-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Søren, I'm actually not using the VO cursor when this happens. That's why I said it's a similar flavor of the issue. smile However, it does act funky for me either way. Have a nice day!… Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn

Re: Questions about bootcamp

2009-03-03 Thread Cara Quinn
Rafael, you can select an OS at startup by holding down the option key for a few seconds, when you hear the chime. then you'll simply use right or left arrows to select the OS and press enter to boot into that OS. The BootCamp installed OS will always be the last OS all the way to

Re: Possible Cure for Safari Interaction Losing

2009-03-01 Thread Cara Quinn
Hey alex, thanks for the prescription, but unfortunately, I think I may have had an idiosyncratic reaction to this one! lol! I.E. I usually surf with my VO keys locked, and this doesn't seem to make a diff. I'll give this further examination though. Thanks for your

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