Re: thinking about getting a GoogleVoice number

Hi, It is my understanding that hardware solution no longer works. I had one at one time and it stopped working for me, a year later stopped working for a friend of mine. Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic

Re: Typing Echo and ChromeVox

Did you get the confirmation that the setting was changed, IE characters, characters and words, words etc. Also did you have VoiceOver running at the same time? I just tried this under Windows Chrome and Chromevox and the keyboard echo was respected. Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where

Re: Typing Echo and ChromeVox

Hi, Try Chromevox+e then T you need to rotor through the settings. Depending on the setting you want, you may need to press chromevox+e, then T multiple times. Chromevox+e, then T. Chromevox+E, then T. Chromevox+E then T. etc. Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning

Re: VO threw a bluetooth speaker

to the sounds category in the VO utility and use the pop-up to select your BT speaker. You should now hear VO from your BT speaker and all other sound from your mac. I can provide additional instructions if necessary. Chris > On Sep 2, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net> wrot

DAISY player

Hi, I am just wondering what is a good DAISY player for the Mac? Thanks, -- Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com Join our free

Re: Avast SecureLine VPN

else out. Such an attack is called a man in the middle attack. Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com Join our free announce

Java Applications Accessibility Issue

Hey all. Not sure if anyone can confirm this, but I seem to be hitting an issue with Java applications that use either the tree view (browser) or table controls. Since my company is standardizing on JMeter, which uses a browser control to display test plans and a table to show test results,

Re: Smart thermostat with Amazon Alexa

the Honeywell. Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com Join our free announce-only mailing list to receive product news, podcast updates

Re: Ad Blockers

Hello Adrienne, try adblock plus Chris > On Aug 5, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Adrienne Chalmers <aschalm...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I have one of these running on my iPhone, but was wondering if anyone had any > recommendations for an ad blocker for my MBP? > > One

google chrome help

Hello, I just started using chrome. Are there any keyboard shortcuts which will help me navigate the screens? Also how can I click the menu in the upper right with VO? Chris -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update compatibility with VMWare Fusion

Hi Scott, I successfully upgraded to windows 10 on vmware fusion 8. I followed the steps mentioned in this thread. One important thing they left out was to make sure that you need to first run windows update until you are fully up-to-date. This may take several hours. Chris > On Aug 4, 2

Re: Seeking Suggestions for VoiceOver Accessible Invoicing Solutions

I would agree on Freshbooks. Chris Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com Join our free announce-only mailing list to receive

A bit off topic - DOJ public comments until October 7th

This is a bit off topic, but for those interested the US Department of Justice is asking for public comment on their "supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking" around accessibility for public sector web sites. This set of regulations has had many setbacks and delays since it first was

Re: using Sonos with multiple controllers?

Hi Donna, Another thing you can do with Sonos is to put all your music on a network drive and build a library which can be accessed from any Sonos controller. Chris > On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > That's my next st

Re: using Sonos with multiple controllers?

Donna, You may want to get in touch with Sonos tech support. Chris > On Jul 31, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Happily, I was able to solve the problem I was having last night. It seems > that the problem was on my phone. Fo

Re: Songs not finding files on my iPhone?

donna, I’m not sure whether Sonos can play content from Apple Music. It should play songs in your personal collection. There are many ways to play and stream on your Sonos, so don’t give up just yet. Chris > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionar

Re: Accessible online banking

What about in the United States. Chris Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 26, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, the Royal Bank has both an accessible web-site and accessible iOS app. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMu

Accessible online banking

I'm looking for recommendations on accessible online banking website with voiceover. Chris -- 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

Re: Remapping and/or pressing the applications key in VMware Fusion

hello, shift + f10 works in fusion for me. Of course, you need to change the function keys to not need the FN modifier in your keyboard prefs. Chris > On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:00 AM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi Josh. If you have Sharp Keys on your Windows VM

Re: requesting help with running OS 10 as a virtual machine using VMware Fusion

I haven’t tried boot mac os from fusion, but I would want to turn VO off on the host before attempting to enable it on the guest. Chris > On Jul 21, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > hey all, > i have a question about making

Apple Design Award goes to djay Pro, accessible djay app

Not sure if this was mentioned before. Found a link to a page showing the Apple Design Awards at the 2016 WWDC. I couldn't figure out how to control the video with voiceover other than stop/start but at around the 54 minute mark they give out the last of the 10 awards to djay Pro. While each

Re: Looking for Slack feedback from voiceover users on OSX and IOS

One thing that I’ve found helps with Slack is to set the VO modifiers to allow caps lock as an option. My guess is that some sort of keyDown event gets fired whenever any key that would register does so (I.e. Option, particularly since it can be used to type extended characters), and pops

Re: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Half a sec. You lose points on the immigration scale for New Zealand if you’re blind? The mind boggles just a bit. > On Jul 16, 2016, at 5:32 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > > Yes, Simon, I could not immigrate here. I immigrated independently. Most > blind people who

Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini

nd knocked it up to 16 GB of RAM. It runs quite well with El Capitan now. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 11, 2016, at 15:21, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Nothing new here, Apple is just better at keeping consumers out of th

Re: mac book pro, mac book air, or iPad pro?

That's why Apple went to the RISC PowerPC in the not too distant past as it could crank out more work than its Intel brethern. Unfortunatly it eventually lost its lead and Apple had to make another migration to the Intel platform. In some ways, that made things easier with virtual machines and

Re: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini

Nothing new here, Apple is just better at keeping consumers out of their widgets now then back in the Mac Plus days. They figured out that most people could pick up a long T15 Torx screwdriver without much trouble but getting things unsoldered without burning the board is a different thing.

Re: This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Interesting stats they mention about correlation between braille literacy and employment. I just had an iOS developer reach out to me who said WWDC had a heavy emphasis on accessibility this year. I've never been so I can't compare. I hope that's true. Nothing but good can come from more

Re: Web testing and development software.

Are you testing a lot of pages? If so you might want to check into the various commercial products like WorldSpace from DeQueue Systems or AMP from SSB Bart Group. I've used both and they work well. I'm currently scanning about 200 web sites with AMP each week. For individual pages you can

Re: Dr. Phil, and More. I swear this *is!* on topic entirely.

A good antenna shouldn't cost that much but a lot of it also depends on where you put it. I put a ChannelMaster CM2016 in my attic and it worked quite well. Cost me $44 on Amazon. My wife is a sports nut so she had to have her (US) football and Olympics.

Re: Converting songs to mp3 with latest iTunes and ElCap.

Glad to hear it wasn't some crazy hard to reproduce issue. CB On 6/24/16 6:05 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: Chris, I followed your directions and had no trouble converting to mp3. Thanks for your help. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Jun 24, 2016

Re: A GUI question

Depends on what you mean by "run the Mac GUI". The Mac GUI is just an overlay on top of what's happening under the hood. So if you are SSHed into another Mac, cd to the Desktop folder and rm a file, that file will be gone from the desktop in the GUI as well. CB On 6/25/16 4:43 PM, Angus

Re: remotely controlling a mac

/16 9:48 AM, michael babcock wrote: I thought about that and that would enquire me of buying a BT keyboard and waiting for it where as i have this $2400 macbook that if i could just use it i would rather do so :) thanks for the suggestion chris. On Jun 27, 2016, at 6:46 AM, Christopher-Mark

Re: Adobe Reader DC

. > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 26, 2016, at 12:36, Chris Meredith <talli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Half a sec. Can you fill out forms with PDF Pen? I tried downloading a form > from the Social Security Administration and PDF Pen failed to

Re: Adobe Reader DC

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Re: Adobe Reader DC

opying or > disclosure of this message, or its contents is > strictly prohibited unless authorized by the sender. If you have received > this message in error, please notify to the sender at the above address and > delete the email." > > On Jun 26, 2016, at 12:35 AM, Ch

Adobe Reader DC

Hey folks, So I downloaded Adobe Reader DC, confident* in its ability to allow access to PDF files using VoiceOver. Upon selecting a PDF, I was dropped into, astoundingly enough, an accessible view of the document. Now, here’s the good bit—when I moved out of that accessible area, I was

Re: Converting songs to mp3 with latest iTunes and ElCap.

Hmm. I don't seem to be able to reproduce this. I went to playlist and then to Purchased to make sure I had tracks from iTunes and not ripped from my own CDs. I stopped interacting, did VO-right twice to get past the splitter to the scroll area, interacted with that, did a VO-right to move

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:15 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I used to do enterprise computing stuff back in t

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

. I’ve heard for example that Microsoft has the federal market cornered. On 6/15/16, 12:13 PM, "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: I suspect the Mac v. Win population numbers are driven by bulk institutional purchases. While there are a f

Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?

I suspect the Mac v. Win population numbers are driven by bulk institutional purchases. While there are a few all-Mac shops there are many more all-Windows shops. I was just at a PTA meeting at my kids elementary school last night where they were going to help fund buying 60 computers for the

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com> > Phone: (704) 256-8010. >> - Original Message - >> From: Chris Meredith <mailto:talli...@gmail.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Saturday, Jun

Re: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini?

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Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

With all due respect, sir, there WAS a significant amount of negativity in this thread, which definitely took the tone of the age old song that blind people are always left out, and ZOMG this may happen again. I’m pretty sure it was the present Apple CEO that pointed out that, when they

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

m>] On Behalf Of Alex Hall > Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2016 1:07 PM > To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> > Subject: Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros? > > I'

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

Could be that, could be a tactile marking above F5, could be any number of ways. Unless you’re thinking that the bar won’t be divided up into segments that replace the function keys? One question though—where are you hearing these rumors? > On Jun 10, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Ray Foret jr

Re: Subscriptions and All That

I was going to say the same thing, but my fingers were to tired for all that, so I'll just say I agree. Here is the downside scenario. Say somebody puts out a nice app such as an audio cleaner. I rent the app and use it to clean all my cassette and LP record transfers to remove hiss and pops.

Re: Daring Fireball: The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads

One clarification, "leading software" should have been "leasing software". Sometimes my fingers don't go where I tell them :) CB On 6/9/16 12:07 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Good points, Chris. I've long felt that upgrade shouldn't need to be free. If a developer works to

Re: Daring Fireball: The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads

My only concern is that leading software can lead to some developers slacking off if they have their app pretty much working correctly. Back in the day people kept upgrading computers and apps because the new ones were faster and the apps had lots of new features. At some point the computers

When it comes to accessibility Apple continues to lead in awareness and innovation

Found this buried in my inbox. Nice writeup from techcrunch on Apple's accessibility endeavors. http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/when-it-comes-to-accessibility-apple-continues-to-lead-in-awareness-and-innovation/ CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- The following information is important for all members of

Re: from VHS to Mac

Because Macs are set up with a "line" level input you should be able to go directly from a standard tape deck into your Mac and record with your favorite tool. Usually this means you'll need a stereo RCA to stereo mini headphone jack cable. Of course you need a real deck, not something meant

Re: from VHS to Mac

Hmm, if the video digitizer device were to show up as just another camera you could use plain old quicktime to record a movie from that source. It's been a long time but I think the old firewire ones did just that. You might find a used Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter somewhere for not a lot.

Re: Using SSH to find a computer

Terminal on osx opens up a full bash environment where you can run commands, write scripts and other things all through text. Apple has some nice documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduction/Introduction.html So

Re: music gear and accessibility was Re: Question about DJay for OSX

hello, I recently purchased pianoteq 5 stage. Their included app is not very accessible. However, they include audio unit plugins. I got them to work with GB so hopefully they would work with PT and logic. Chris M > On May 25, 2016, at 6:54 PM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com&

Re: Help needed navigating iTunes on a Mac

Hi Chris, I listened to your iTunes podcast and commend you for the effort. My question is when I am in the edit box VO + down just beeps and does not leave the edit field. This is different behavior from what you described. Any thoughts? Thanks Chris M > On May 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Kim

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

eset it from scratch and see what happens theren *From:*'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] *Sent:* Sunday, 8 May 2016 4:29 PM *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple

Re: Does IOS 9 or El Capitan have the voice memo app?

if nothing else, try opening the app using Siri. Or, another option would be to use spotlight. Chris. Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2016, at 17:52, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > If you have the standard IOS menu layout it will be on the second screan o

Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items

my guesses, the device would probably run android under the hood, but it would not be android on the part that user would see. Think of it kind of like a skin. Or in other words, an overlay. in other words, the underlying operating system would be android, yes, but my guesses, humanware would

Re: Viewing Source in Safari

Weird. I can reproduce the issue. I even tried opening the inspector up as a separate window, but that just let me get a bit further down before focus moved away from the source. Seems like a bug. CB On 5/10/16 4:16 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: Hi all, I have the developer menu turned on in

Apple store now stocking accessibility items

Maybe I missed this in another thread but you can now buy braille displays, switch interfaces and eye gaze trackers from the Apple store: http://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories/accessibility Selection is kinda thin at the moment but I'm sure they will keep adding stuff over

Re: Choppy voiceover with Apple TV

I suspect you have this right. I have a Mac Mini hooked to a surround sound receiver via the digital optical out and it always takes a moment for the receiver to figure out what kind of signal is being sent before it wakes up and starts putting sound out the speakers. Maybe newer decoders are

Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

This is basically a transformer. Those little wall warts you use power up low voltage devices like radios, phones, CD players usually run on just a few volts (5 to 12), just like batteries. The power coming out of your outlet is usually 120 volts (US) or 220 (Europe). Years ago somebody

Re: Hiding Info in Numbers

You could Hide the column or row that has the data in it using the hide command from the Table menu. I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for it. Once hidden it will still function as data for your formulas and will be visually gone but you will notice the column letter or row number is

Re: VMWare Fusion and Sonar?

gt; Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion and Sonar? > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Fandango, or IMDB?

OK, wonderful. I will give it a try, and see if it meets my needs. Chris. > On May 1, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Ken brown <kbchil...@swbell.net> wrote: > > The IMDB app is excellent and very accessible. >> On May 1, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wro

Fandango, or IMDB?

possible. Thanks for any help. Chris. -- 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: benefits of lightning over headphone jack was Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2 cameras and no iPhone jack

While a USB-C headphone/power/data jack might allow slimmer devices or more internal space for other stuff, it also means your headphones could do much more than play audio. There have been hacks over the years such as the square credit card reader plugging into the current jack but what if

Barnes and Noble web site driving me nuts!

be very very sluggish. Chris. -- 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 directly

Re: Star Wars digital editions

Thanks, that is what I thought as well. TFA does have them and it was cool to just start playing on the apple TV 4th gen and there they were. Chris Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive

Star Wars digital editions

sure before I buy the other 6 movies that they have descriptions as well. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Grabowski Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. http://www.MysticAccess.com Check out our eclectic and comprehensive assistive technology podcasts at: http://www.MysticAccessPodcast.com

Re: Two iTunes questions

Interesting. I hunted around for a while and it seems that iTunes won't let you speed up playback. Odd to have such a feature missing. All the things I found said to use an another app by picking the podcast, revealing in the finder and then opening it with quicktime player, which does allow

Re: web arkive files

I don't know much about the downloading portion but a web archive is supposed to be all the stuff needed to load up a web page in Safari without an internet connection. So you can save a page as a web archive and then peruse it when you're offline later.

Re: recovering lost files

Back in the day some studios I knew always had a separate DAT recorder or the like running just in case the big Protools rig went down. It was kind of a safety net so you at least had "something" instead of nothing. Of course the system would always have an issue on the take where the

Apple's 2015 Q4 PC business stats from Gartner

This came up before but I wanted to cite a source in case anyone was curious what the stats were as far as the overall market and Apple. Note that sales/shipments does not equal installed base. There are a couple tables in the report and they are not marked up correctly so you'll have to

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

It's also probably a demographic thing. If your product "just works" and customers expect the access point to be an appliance to be plugged in with minimal fuss or setup than most won't don't care about SNMP or the lack of insight into wired devices. I also miss my Archie and Veronica tools

Re: Excluding iTunes Library

I'm assuming you can just got into the Time Machine Preferences, tab a couple times to Options which will take you to the exclusions table. Tab once to land on the "add items to do not backup list" button. Actioning that button will bring up a standard file picker to select which files/folders

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. I just tried it on two different Airports, the older mini-pizza shaped one allowed me to do the SNMP trick but the newer small tower shaped one did not. I wonder why it was taken out? Maybe another attack vector for bad guys? CB On 3/31/16 3:06 AM,

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

. /Krister 31 mars 2016 kl. 04:43 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>>: Airport modems support SNMP network management protocol and you have a handy tool to interrogate that in termin

Re: FBI drop case against apple

Security is simply levels of difficulty in being cracked and usually is a tradeoff with usability. In this case Apple had a self-destruct mechanism so the FBI couldn't brute force the password before all the encrypted content went poof. So the FBI was not trying to break the encrypted data

Re: comparing: Openbook vs K1000

Yup, I found a press release on the FS site talking about the merger: http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/120 and everything else on the AbiSee web site seems to still be there but purchasing sends you to the F S dealer locator. That said, the zoom-ex page:

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

Airport modems support SNMP network management protocol and you have a handy tool to interrogate that in terminal. You need to know the internal IP address of your airport. So if mine were 192.168.130.1 then I could run the terminal command: snmptable -v 2c -c public 192.168.130.1

Re: Chris, can you read this?

Scott, Yes. That was definitely legible. Keep in mind however, I am checking this from my iPhone, and not from my PC. It's hard to say. We will just have to keep experimenting. Chris. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 28, 2016, at 11:57, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net> wrote

Re: Some Vmware questions, reading hard disks etc

On the USB thing, it's actually VMWare that asks if you want the drive connected to the Mac or to the VMWare machine. Once you exit VMWare or reboot I guess the thumb drive get handed back to OSX so if you start vmware again the thumb drive is now mounted on the OSX side. So you would need to

Re: pdf documents

PDFs aren't compressed on their own. You can zip a PDF by selecting it and then going to the file menu to choose Compress "filename" or use the contextual menu on the PDF. That will make a .zip file of the PDF which will upload/download faster. CB On 3/26/16 1:02 AM, John Weir wrote: There

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

Not sure I would call it a Mac issue. The rate of growth of Mac sales have slowed from last year in Q4 (2.8% up) but that's better than the overall PC market which shrank (8.3% down). Might just be an indication of overall market trends. That said, PCs (in the generic sense) tend to be more

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

pple to develop directly to Apple. How can a product be developed without a demand? Vaughn On 3/22/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remem

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

a product be developed without a demand? Vaughn On 3/22/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got one of the very fir

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

Another perspective is that most people don't know a great thing until there are a few years of hindsight. I remember one of my co-workers got one of the very first iPhones and I couldn't figure out why. It was a battery hog, heavy and my little folding phone made calls just as well. Who knew

Re: siri and iphone

I'm guessing SE stands for Special Edition. Of course Apple hasn't said so everyone is left guessing or making stuff up. CB On 3/22/16 11:53 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: The new phone is the iPhone SE. Speech will pronounce ce Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

I think he was saying it was the last time they would do an event in that particular space. They can, and probably will, have other events in other venues. He seemed be waxing nostalgic over the number of major announcements that had been made there over the years. CB On 3/22/16 9:25 AM,

Re: How to emulate numeric keyboard in a Macbook air keyboard?

I have karabiner installed on my mac. One of the things you can do is to emulate a numeric keypad. Maybe it sounds a bit geeky, but it does work! Chris > On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Daniela Rubio <mabuha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, that is what we are going to end up

Re: siri and iphone

what version of iOS are you running on that phone? Chris. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2016, at 22:14, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi: > I have an iPhone 6s. Siri stopped opening apps! It says the apps do not > exist. They do exi

Re: Download error in iTunes

George, does it just simply say there was an error, or is it more specific? Does it maybe give an error code number or anything we could crossreference? Chris. > On Mar 20, 2016, at 11:58 PM, George Cham <george.c...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi, I have songs in iTu

Screen Brightness default

be a way to make it stick. This is the official, non-beta build of El Capitan on a late 2012 macbook Pro 13 inch non retina system with a superdrive. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

such as loopback or soundflower if needed, hopefully last solution. On 3/16/16, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: Are you saying you have both machines on your desk and just want to share one keyboard between both of them? CB On 3/16/16 7:38 AM, Carte

Re: iPad settings navigation

of text? CB On 3/9/16 6:10 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Aa, chris, my friend. You need to turn your rotor to containers. Two finger twist until you get there. Then, flick up and down with one finger. This will jump you from the settings on the left side to the setting content

Re: Numbers Questions

Hmm, if you just want to jump between sheets in a single document it's command-shift-bracket with left-bracket being the previous sheet and right-bracket being the next sheet. These are the same commands to switch tabs in Safari. CB On 3/17/16 9:43 AM, Phil Halton wrote: Number one There is

Re: List View or column view

If you’re in column view, position yourself on the folder in which you want the files to appear before pasteing them. Chris > On Mar 16, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Seyoon Choi <syc20...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also realized that this shortcut works with other Mac apps system wi

Re: converting mp4 videos to mp3 audio only

I found a build of ffmpeg for the mac. Chris > On Mar 17, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > So i can install apt-get to m my mac? > Or isn’t that a package manager? > /A >> 15 mars 2016 kl. 08:23 skrev Sabahatt

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

Are you saying you have both machines on your desk and just want to share one keyboard between both of them? CB On 3/16/16 7:38 AM, Carter Temm wrote: Hi all, I currently use both mac and windows in a business environment. What I am wondering, is there an application that you use to control

Re: VirtualBox questions

in native OS X windows that Voice Over would understand. HTH, Jonathan COhn On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:08, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I have a few questions before diving into VBox. 1. Is there a build for el capitan, or do I need to build from sources? 2. Is the GUI acce

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