Re: IPhone Support dropped from the VIP Toolkit

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Sadly I know of other cross-platform initiatives which are not being worked for the iPhone for similar reasons. Hence my original question about how you were addressing the ULA. I was kind of hoping you have found a loop hole :) CB Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, Sadly, It is my painful duty

Re: logging on to time capsule?

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Blouch
I had problems a few years back with my Panasonic cordless phone interrupting my DLink wireless router. Later I switched to a newer model phone that has spread spectrum frequency hopping and all my problems went away. Maybe the time capsule has an equivalent feature? Here is an article about

Re: ipod v3.0 software

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Blouch
They didn't mention anything in the presentation and you would have to be part of the developer program to get your hands on the actual API documentation to hunt for VO. If you were in the dev program then you probably would have NDA restrictions keeping you from sharing what is in there.

Re: ipod v3.0 software

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Blouch
or much memory. HTH, Everett On 20-Mar-09, at 2:28 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: They didn't mention anything in the presentation and you would have to be part of the developer program to get your hands on the actual API documentation to hunt for VO. If you were in the dev program then you

Re: Extremely slow file transfer rates in Adium?

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Blouch
Hmm. I tried it with AIM 6 running on XP and Adium on my mac. I was able to transfer an 80MB file in about 10 seconds. This would seems to imply that the bottleneck is not the programs and protocols. I suspect it's the internet connection. Most of them are Asymmetrical with a lot more

Re: Restoring with Time Machine

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Blouch
of this, time and time again. Dan key...@comcast.net On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I haven't tried it but I would think that once your system is restored you should be able to pull up Time Machine and revert back to a previous point in time. In other words

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

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Blouch
: dude, I went to that presentation too!!! very, very interesting!!! I can't wait til this becomes available! On 24-Mar-09, at 11:06 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Well, since we're already somewhat off topic, one of the most amazing presentations I went to at CSUN was a product called

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm certainly guilty of being off topic and worthy of the ban. At the same time I'd like to think some lenience for off topic posts which have broad appeal to this list's readership has some positive benefit to the community. For myself this is one of the few public mailing list I subscribe

Re: Need a Spreadsheet Program

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Blouch
My understanding is that if the developer uses standard user interface widgets then those expose accessibility information to VO (more or less) automatically. That implies that Microsoft has implemented their own custom controls for Office but did not implement the communication to the Apple

Re: New Mac man in town!

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
Might I suggest broadening the topic to include iPod/iPhone/Apple related stuff as well? Someday I hope we'll have lots to talk about 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

Re: iniciate links menu causes VO to crash

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm on 10.5 with the non-beta Safari and the link chooser list came up fine for me. It did take a bit to get around. Probably because the page is 890K, which is rather huge. CB Dan Eickmeier wrote: I'm using the Safari 4 beta, and it worked fine here. Although the weird thing was, VO said

Open Office 3.0.1 improvements?

2009-03-27 Thread Chris Blouch
This one slipped past me. Apparently there was a point release at the end of January. Poking through the bug notes I didn't see anything Mac or VoiceOver related. Anyone else find any improvements? I just downloaded it and added a table to a Writer document using Command-F12. the resulting

Re: Hard Drive Access.

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
I found these instructions which might be helpful: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130 The drive is a standard 2.5 SATA drive. Here are a few starting at $48 for an 80GB up to about $100 for a 500GB. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ CB George Zaynoun wrote: Hi

Re: Hard Drive Access.

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Blouch
- Original Message - From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Hard Drive Access. I found these instructions which might be helpful: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130 The drive is a standard 2.5 SATA

Re: Oops, zohol online applications

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Blouch
That link didn't work for me. I think it was supposed to be http://www.zoho.com/ That said, the first thing I hit was an image captcha with no audio alternative. Once you're past that the actual web app says it's best used with IE6 or FireFox 2. I couldn't do much of anything in Safari with

Re: Safari 4beta and ARIA

2009-04-13 Thread Chris Blouch
The main thing I'm looking for in an ARIA enabled browser is support for live regions. This is where a spot on the page is set up such that any changes to that spot are automatically announced. This is a great way to implement web-based chat, stock tickers and other real-time data feeds.

Re: games for the Mac?

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Blouch
I wonder how accessible the Apple II emulators are such as Virtual II, OSX II or KEGS http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/VirtualII/ http://kegs.sourceforge.net/ http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/OSXII.html CB erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, have you considdered porting eamon to the mac? No one seems to

Re: Flash and VO alternative

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Blouch
If something was happening, a Google search on adobe flash apple voiceover would actually give some relevant results. CB Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On 19/4/09 22:34, Alex Jurgensen wrote: If we could make GNash accessible on the Mac, it is an implimentation of Flash that we can

Re: zMachine interpreter

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Blouch
Lots of previous discussion about this can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=zmachinel=discuss%40macvisionaries.com but the short answer is yes. CB Jonathan Chacón wrote: Hello is there any zMachine interpreter compatible with voiceOver? thanks and regards

Re: creating an i chat account

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
Wouldn't signing up for an aol mail account give you AIM? If so, I think their web mail sign up process is pretty accessible. It does have a captcha but there is an audio alternative. CB Mark Baxter wrote: Are you wanting to get a new screen name and password for AIM or GOogle or

Re: DVI to Video (not VGA) Adapter or Monitor connection needed [was Re: Slow Mac Mini]

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I believe this is because the Mac tries to detect what kind of display is attached at power-up. With none attached it shuts down the video display and weird stuff starts to happen. With the DVI to VGA adapter the Mac can still tell when there is no VGA display attached because VGA also has

Re: problems playing midi files

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Are you sure the files are ok? I play MIDI files all the time with the Quicktime player, although I haven't tried it recently. CB gene richburg wrote: Hi guys I was wondering if anyone would happen to know why I am unable to play midi files on my ibook? They open with quick time but it

Re: DVI to Video (not VGA) Adapter or Monitor connection needed [was Re: Slow Mac Mini]

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I would think not since any notebook always has a screen attached, unless some calamity has severed the screen from your poor laptop's body. Then you probably have other issues anyway :) CB gene richburg wrote: Hi Guys, this doesn't apply to the ibook as well does it? I'm just wondering

Open Office 3.1 released

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
Anyone try it yet? Any improvements with VO support? Mine is downloading right now. I couldn't find any mentions one way or the other in their included docs or on the web. CB --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Open Office 3.1 released

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
To answer my own question, I didn't notice much difference. Navigation of a table I created in writer still didn't announce what cell I was in as I tabbed around. CB Chris Blouch wrote: Anyone try it yet? Any improvements with VO support? Mine is downloading right now. I couldn't find any

Re: Open Office 3.1 released

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Blouch
wrote: Chris, How's the accessibility of the word processor in Open Office? Is it any better than Writer? Thanks, Eliza On May 8, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: To answer my own question, I didn't notice much difference. Navigation of a table I created in writer

Re: More Help with iTuenes, was, Help with iTunes

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Blouch
I thought you just did command-shift-b to buy? CB Scott Howell wrote: Yep, you need to do VO-keys+shift+m to bring up the context menu. Once you click on buy for the track, it's placed in your shopping cart and/ or if you want an entire album, interact with the iTunes html area and

Re: More Help with iTuenes, was, Help with iTunes

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Blouch
released with Accessibility Enhancements Chris Blouch Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:01:07 -0700 Just found out about a third way. Friend of a friend works in Apple's accessibility team who said you can just do Command-Shift-B to buy the track which is currently highlighted or Control-Shift-B if you're

Re: Open Office 3.1 released

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Blouch
in this document? CB John Panarese wrote: I think the problem occurs when one opens existing documents that were not created in Open Office. At least, this has been my experience. Take Care John Panarese On May 11, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hmm. So I created

Re: Open Office 3.1 released

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Blouch
a problem is if tables are included in the document, such as the invoice template I use from MS Word. With everything else, it now seems as if you can highlight large chunks of text. Take Care John Panarese On May 11, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hmm, I tried

Re: speeding up applications

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Blouch
That was true in the OS9 days but today memory is dynamically allocated to each app as it requests it. If the app requests more memory than is available then the OS will swap out to disk areas of memory that haven't been used in a while (called virtual memory). This process is relatively slow

Re: dvd's

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Ditto. This might be a non-trivial process. DVDs are usually playing MPEG2 format video and AVI is a Microsoft Video for Windows format which they came out with in 1992. It is just a container which can hold mpeg2 and other content types but DVDs are not typically formatted that way. DVDs in

Re: speed test

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Most of the speed test things I've found were Flash based and inaccessible. A brute force way to do it would be to download a reasonably large file from a known fast service and time it. One possibility is downloading the AOL Mac installer from here:

Re: 10.5.7

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Blouch
It took me a couple tries as well. I was doing other things while it downloaded so I finally just left it alone and only then did it download the whole update correctly. CB louie wrote: Hi all, I had to download the new OS three times before I got a good copy. I can't tell that any thing

Re: iPhoto question

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Blouch
This would seem to be counter-intuitive since re-compressing a compressed file always makes the quality worse. AFAIK iPhoto just stores the images as they come from the camera, which should just be JPEG. Exceptions might be if the camera uses something other than JPEG file format. Some pro

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Blouch
As I had mentioned in the past, the non-S model of iPhone didn't have enough power to do real text to speech so I was kinda hoping we'd have VO with the newly released model. That also means we won't have this migrating to iPods and such anytime soon. Hope it works well in the real world. CB

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Blouch
I believe this was due to the 2 year contract that would have to be broken. There has been some discussion about this in other forums. So if you've got most of a two year contract on your current phone and want to break it to get an iPhone it's going to cost you. This is probably an ATT thing

Free OCR

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Anyone ever use one of these free OCR sites? I played with this one and it seemed to do a reasonable job: http://www.free-ocr.com/ You just upload a bitmap scan and it spits back the results. Some minimal limitations such as single pages and 10 pages per hour but the site worked ok with VO.

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Blouch
I guess what I heard was that Apple in the early days was shopping around their early prototypes and demos to different phone companies. Unlike most phone vendors they wanted no meddling from the carrier and would simply deliver their device 'as is'. That wasn't (isn't) the way it was done but

Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
In the past there have been upgrade CDs that check for an existing installation on the hard drive. I suspect they will do something like that. CB Sean Tikkun wrote: The 'low price' really isn't that low. iWork is $40, iLife is $40 and the last couple upgrades have been $80 I think. Just

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
The 5 year GSM deal came from this May 2007 article in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2007-05-21-att-iphone_N.htm In particular: ATT has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years — an eternity in the go-go cellphone world. And Apple is barred for that time from

Re: iPod Touche and iPhone 3.0 with VO

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I believe it's only the 3Gs that will have voiceover and the accessible touch screen navigation. Probably not enough memory/cpu in the older units to pull this off. CB David Hole wrote: Hello folks. A short question here. Does anyone of you know if the iPod Touche can use iPhone 3.0

Re: Rare Apple Synth

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
From my old BBS days, here's how a null modem works. Say you had two telephones called up to two other people. If you wanted to you could put the two handsets together and the two people could talk with each other. Of course you would have to flip one phone around so the ear piece went to the

Re: Rare Apple Synth

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
The original Apple IIs (before the IIgs) had their own DOS but it was something Apple wrote from scratch and not a clone of CP/M or MS DOS. It had the usual commands to catalog the contents of a disk or execute a program. It was, like many things on the II, very small fast and efficient but

Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
. I wonder what happens whenever the next one comes out, install leopard, then Snow Leopard, then whatever? - Original Message - *From:* Chris Blouch mailto:cblo...@aol.com *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Sent

Re: Golden Apples

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
While we're geezing about Apple IIs, I remember there was a shift-key mod for the II+ where you would jumper the shift key to one of the game controller buttons since it didn't really work otherwise when you did the lower case text chip mod. Beagle Bros had a little program that would

Re: Purchasing individual songs on iTunes - solved

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
, and the original post from Chris Blouch was back in October. Now when I use Command-Shift-B in iTunes I hear Send file to Bluetooth Device. So I toggled VoiceOver off, issued the same command, toggled it on again, and got the dialog window for proceeding with the purchase. (You may have to use VO-F2 twice

Re: Golden Apples

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Cara and the mod crew hunt me down, Lol. Take care and thanks again for listening. Talk to you soon. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:05 PM To: macvisionaries

Re: Rare Apple Synth

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Blouch
, which was lightyears better, and included directories, copy commands, and more. Excellent times. I still have my Apple iiGS, and it still works pretty well. On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The original Apple IIs (before the IIgs) had their own DOS

Re: Rare Apple Synth

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Blouch
/06/2009, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: I remember playing with ProDOS a bit. It was very nice but came a bit late in the golden era of the Apple II. The IIgs made extensive use of it though because it could handle much larger volumes and had read directories etc. My IIgs has a huge 5MB

Re: Live Iphone demo to be streamed today at 5 eastern.

2009-06-24 Thread Chris Blouch
So I'm listening to this and it appears to be some kids program. CB Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. Not sure if this was posted here or not, but there will be a live demonstration of the iPhone given by Brandon Hicks today at 5 eastern. The show will be streamed in OGG, so you'll need to

Re: trackpad

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Blouch
Maybe there is a multitouch USB trackpad that would be supported. CB Dean Wilcox wrote: I'm mainly asking because afterreading the new features list in Snow Leopard the trackpad jestures with VO seem to be quite a big step in possibly speeding up a few commands. I wonder if desktop users

Ogg support in QT

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Blouch
The live broadcast of the iphone 3gs was in ogg format and the recommended this plugin for QT http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html which worked just fine. From checking around it also adds support for ogg in iTunes. Just download the file and then copy the plugin to

Re: IPhone Wows

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Blouch
litterly means tap with two fingers and there is a oh rhythm to it if you will. All and all it really sounds impressive and I can't wait to get my grubby hands on one. :) On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: My manager and I went over to the ATT store yesterday to play

Re: IPhone Wows

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Blouch
*From:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Blouch *Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:19 AM *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: IPhone Wows My

Re: macbook fan

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Two possibilities. Do you have any automated tasks like TimeMachine running? That can kick up the fans while it's backing up. Also. my wife sometimes likes to set her MacBook on the couch when she's using it which sinks in a little bit. The insulating attribute of the couch surface plus the

Re: Accessible HTML Editor

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Blouch
While I also like Subetha edit, TextEdit should work fine. You'll just need to change the format in preferences to Plain Text instead of Rich Text, which should show all the HTML. CB Mike wrote: Hi List: Anyone of an accessible HTML Editor for the Mac? I have taken on a web master project

Re: daisy player for IPhone

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Sorry. The text to speech and gesture recognition require faster hardware which is currently only in the iPhone 3GS. Many expect a similar bump to the iPod touch this fall which implies the accessibility software will then work there as well. CB Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote: That reminds me of

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Flash works fine but is not accessible in Mac browsers. It has some accessibility on Windows with Jaws (dunno about WindowEyes) but even then it has to have been coded with labeled buttons and such. HTML5 supports a new video tag which should be accessible but I haven't tried that out. What I

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
the site and click on the watch video and tell me what they think. Still needs some tweeking i believe. Thanks, Max On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Flash works fine but is not accessible in Mac browsers. It has some accessibility on Windows with Jaws (dunno about

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
about mp4 as if it wouldn't play in quicktime. Got any suggestions for how i create a download link to go with the streaming one? Thanks again, Max On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Quicktime can play mp4 files just fine. The example I gave below is from a working site

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
as if it wouldn't play in quicktime. Got any suggestions for how i create a download link to go with the streaming one? Thanks again, Max On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Quicktime can play mp4 files just fine. The example I gave below is from a working site with mp4 video embedded

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
, On 2-Jul-09, at 9:12 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: With the current QuickTime it works fine in Windows. I was using QT mainly because I needed to put captions in the video and html controls on the page. I also wanted to use mp4 for it's smaller size/higher quality. My sample code links in a SMIL file

Re: flash player question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Blouch
soon, am a one man band and i'm getting behind on other work for my site trying to get this right. Thanks again, Max On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Flash works fine but is not accessible in Mac browsers. It has some accessibility on Windows with Jaws (dunno about

Re: Firefox and Flash

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Blouch
be cleaner? CB James Nash wrote: Hi Chris, The only downside to using Safari is that it seems that you cannot install Firefox plugins due to the open source nature of FF. However, perhaps this has changed in the past year. - Original Message - *From:* Chris Blouch

Re: Turning off MacBook screens?

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Blouch
the backlight yes? - Original Message - *From:* Chris Blouch mailto:cblo...@aol.com *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:03 PM *Subject:* Re: Turning off MacBook screens? As has been

Re: Firefox and Flash

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Blouch
a plugin in there, but I'm not sure if I would call that supporting plugins. Or are you saying there is some native plugin support for Safari? If there is, can you link to an example? CB Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, They do have plugins. Regards, Alex, On 7-Jul-09, at 1:43 PM, Chris Blouch

Re: mac more sensative to lightning?

2009-07-10 Thread Chris Blouch
The only time I've ever had a problem with lightening on my Mac was through the Ethernet connection. It blew the built-in Ethernet connection on my old G4 Mac. Luckily I was able to install a PCI Ethernet card and just stop using the built in connector. That was probably about 5 years ago and

Re: Saving key assignments in num pad commander? Also. What/Where are portable preffrences in VO?

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
For portable preferences, I found the instructions here: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/ Pasted from the site: Your preferences — to go Once you’ve customized your own Mac, you can take all your VoiceOver settings with you on the road. To do so, connect a USB flash drive to

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I think this highlights the elegance of Apple's solution. A screen bitmap can not only represent any kind of data anywhere but also make virtual controls. On desktop GUIs there was a mouse to map a virtual finger tip into the simulated world of buttons and controls. On the iPhone this layer is

Re: usb or fire wire sound cards with opticle inputs?

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Can you be more specific in what you want to do? If it's just stereo audio in and out then you already have that built in. Most modern macs have dual purpose connectors which do both analog and digital optical from the same hole. Beyond that you might need outboard gear to do, say, 8 channel

Re: is this program iphone friendly? Fw: The Orbitcast Daily Update

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
AOL Radio seems to use 128kbps MP3 for broadband so maybe that's a lower bitrate and breaks up less than XM. It could also be that AOL's content distribution network has a node closer to you than XM so there would be less network hops and less latency.

Re: free recorders and low cost recorders for mac

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
You should probably poke through the mail archives as this comes up often. I like a free one called Audio Recorder which is fully VO accessible except for the initial license screen the first time you run it. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17392 It records direct to your

Re: importing to the address book

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I haven't tried this but it sounds promising and works for more than just Eudora. http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html CB Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: If these are coming from a Microsoft box, I suggest you use Plaxo as an itermediary. You can load them into Plaxo on their

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Blouch
As far as #1 (multitasking) goes it's kind of splitting hairs to argue whether the phone has 'true' multitasking or not. For the sake of battery life and CPU load Apple made an architectural limitation of only one app running at any one time. For 99% of use cases this was fine because the

Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like security by obscurity. The media folks don't want to hear that the audio version of their book is being distributed via the popular portable and unencumbered mp3 format which can be copied and used on nearly any device. They would rather hear that the file is in the obscure quijibo

Re: Article Slamming the iPhone

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Agreed. My hair splitting was just that from a user perspective I really could care less if the app is executing in the background or not. Sure there are a few exceptions where the lack of background execution is a problem but for everything else it just doesn't matter. It's not like I'm

Re: playing FlAC files

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Is there a link to the flac files someplace? Are you sure they are good? CB Mark Baxter wrote: Indeed, I do have both components there, and I have restarted the whole machine. No joy Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page:

Re: Itunes won't play FLAC files?

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Burnard wrote: Hi. Adding the import component did allow me to open flac files in quicktime player. However, it did not allow me to open them in itunes? Is there another way to accomplish that? Darcy On 15-Jul-09, at 3:24 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The XiphQT only gives flac playback

Re: Apollo11 rebroadcast plugin question

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
They are broadcasting it using the Windows Media Player which I can't seem to access via VoiceOver in Safari. Poking through their HTML, the actual URL of the content is http://anon.nasa-global.edgesuite.net/anon.nasa-global/Apollo-Mission-Audio-Stream.asx which I was able to open in

Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Umm, I think they made the option to pay a bit more and get a DRM-free version. What they call the 'Plus' version. So for USD$.99 you get DRM and for $1.29 you get DRM free. Of course media owners had the option of also going USD$.69 per track for 'back catalog' stuff but of course tose are

Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, I misunderstood the announcement. I thought it was premium pricing just to get DRM free. So the Plus version is higher bitrate in adition to the DRM free. Good to know and, well, what took them so long smile CB Buddy Brannan wrote: On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Chris Blouch wrote

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Its an age old debate. Generally Macs are pretty close in price to PCs with similar hardware options. The trick is Apple doesn't sell stripped down low end hardware or 101 combinations of various options. So the common complaint folks have is when they try to compare to some bargain basement

Re: does reading on the mac take two hands?

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
You can also lock the voiceover keys on with VO and semicolon. Then you don't have to hold down control and option while doing voiceover commands. CB william lomas wrote: you have to use control option and arrow keys, to navigate around On 17 Jul 2009, at 14:31, a radix wrote: Hello

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Luckily used Mac hardware seems to hold up well and a MacMini works just as well as any laptop if you don't need portability. Only snag is that upcoming OS upgrades will be Intel only which means older non-intel hardware will be forever limited to Leopard. Of course the intel conversion

Re: introduction/noob questions(longish)

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
To clarify on a couple of your questions: 2. Networking stuff is pretty standardized now days so your Mac will play well on most any wireless or wired network. 3. Some printers and scanners are well supported and some are not. Depends on the model. 4. Yes, Voiceover can be activated after

Re: iTunes songs for .69 was Re: NLS digital books and future versions of iTunes,iPod, iPhone?

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
That's what I noticed. I poked through tons of 80s music and didn't find a single 69c track. CB Jenny Kennedy (Howard) wrote: wow, You've found stuff for 69 cents? Where? What was it? All the stuff I've come upon is 99 or 1.29 the more expensive stuff seems to be whatever was/is

Re: archive and install

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Blouch
True, but archive and install has been typical of past installers so I would think they would continue that. Since Apple went with a Users folder for all user documents and preferences it makes it much easier to swap out the OS without effecting the users data. CB Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi,

Re: system has new dialog

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Blouch
The window chooser is also the only way I found to back to the force quit window in the finder. If I pop up Force Quit (apple option escape) and then move focus somewhere else, I would have through Apple Tilde would have eventually brought focus back to the force quit window, but it doesn't.

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Blouch
I've heard that once people get good at it you hold a key on the left side of the virtual keyboard and tap with a finger on the right hand or vice versa. For now I end up hunting with one finger and tapping with another for every key. Like VO on the Mac I'm finding many iPhone apps are fairly

Re: recording with fision?

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Blouch
If your machine has a line in then audio recorder will have that as an option. I primarily use that for recording live events from a feed off the house sound system. CB Thomas McMahan wrote: Fision is soely a compainion editerto Audio Highjack Pro. That's why you can buy them as a bundle

Re: navigon

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
The reviews seem to be mixed with some loving it and others having installation or GPS lock issues. From the comments thus far it still sounds like it's the best thing out there so far for the iPhone. CB william lomas wrote: hi navigon is now out for north america or so my itunes store

Re: Web Drive beta

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
You can make an ftp site show up as a disk drive using apple-k to connect to server and then put in ftp://some_ftp_site.com. The downside is it is read only. Not sure why that is. CB Chris G wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried the FTP client web drive for the Mac yet? In windows it's a program

Re: recording with fision?

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
and of course eathernet port and phone port. This is one of the I-macs that was made in late 2002, so quite ancient. But for accessibility Audio Recorder is pretty nice, and the price is deffinitely right. On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: If your machine has a line in then audio

Touchpad patent holder sues just about everyone

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
From Slashdot yesterday. Okay, well, maybe not everyone but more than twenty companies (including Apple, Qualcomm, Motorola and Microsoft) are being sued for a generic patent that reads: 'Apparatus and methods for controlling a portable electronic device, such as an MP3 player; portable

Re: Touchpad patent holder sues just about everyone

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
- From: Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com To: MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:04 PM Subject: Touchpad patent holder sues just about everyone From Slashdot yesterday. Okay, well, maybe not everyone but more than twenty companies (including

Re: introduction and a question

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
Newegg has VMWare Fusion for $50.49 with a mail in $10 rebate making it $40.49. Found this on the dealmac.com web page which is handy for finding those transitory coupons and rebates.

Re: adding sounds to the system sounds library

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
WAV is the Waveform Audio Format or Audio for Windows which was a standard created by Microsoft and IBM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV As stated in the article, WAV can actually containe a number of different formats of audio including comopressed and multi-channel audio. It could be that

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
. On Jul 20, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I've heard that once people get good at it you hold a key on the left side of the virtual keyboard and tap with a finger on the right hand or vice versa. For now I end up hunting with one finger and tapping with another for every key. Like

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
: a friend of mine said he can find a key and tap it twice once he has found it to insert it On 20 Jul 2009, at 22:44, Ryan Mann wrote: Is your typing slower on the Iphone than on the mac? It seems like it would be since you're just using two fingers. On Jul 20, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chris

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