I just set up file sharing and noticed that the buttons are mislabeled
if you attempt to customize what is shared and to whom.
If anybody has a need to know about this let me know and I can walk
you through the steps.
By default when you turn file sharing on it is only enabled for
WHat is the IMAP server? Gmail recently changed a couple of things...
Jon
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Does it make any difference if you switch web viewing methods? I had one site
that was quite slow in Group mode, but was usable in DOM mode.
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Hi, Jon,
Thanks for the explanation. I still can't read anything in column mode, but I
can read the names in card mode when I search for them. Anyone else able to
view or edit information in cards? I suspect I may have exported the .csv
using
The pod casts are saved in your iTunes LIbrary in a folder called podcasts.
You should be able to navigate to that directory and then find what you are
looking for.
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I use and am quite happy with a Jabra Halo headset. There are a few reviews on
line. In terms of voice over however, I can not really recommend its use.
This is I believe because of a Apple issue.
Essentially the problem is that the connection drops to save power and then a
half word of
I don't Quite a few folks on the list use a dedicated multichat program. There
is also a area within the iChat application to tell it to read aloud new
messages using the default TTS. 1. Start iChat
2. type command-, to bring up the preferences pane.
3. Interact with the toolbar and select
You might want to see what google can provide you for address syncing if you
trust them, and you want all contacts synced.
I don't know what they provide on the PC side, but
1. There is an option within the Apple Address Book preferences to sync with
Yahoo or Google.
2. If you configure
Hey somebody should write a quick apple script to toggle this and then it could
be assigned to a hot key or menu item.
On May 23, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Hello. turn off voice over, hit option command h and then command G and then
turn vo on and you are good to go.
S
On
Frank
Selecting the rename group option actually works, though you have no feedback
that it is working.
Try this...
Select rename group ]
2. type a right arrow several times and then hit the delete several times.
3. Type the new name
4. quit address
book
5. start address book.
I am pretty
I have not tried either s5 or Audible, but a couple things to try:
1. Turn off cursor tracking. Some sites do a lot of javascript when the mouse
moves over a specific point, or the insertion point changes. This can wreck
havoc when all three track each other. Facebook is on my bad behavior
Don't forget when formating the disk there is an option to safely clean out old
data. If you need me to search up specifically ow to do this, I can. I would
love to move up to a MBP though right now my budget won't allow it.
Best regards,
Jonathan
On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:21 AM, erik
My memory about the new mini's is that the server version and the low-end
version do not have a GPU and that the mid-tier version does have thededicated
graphics processor.
So it might be that the only the medium tier mini has issues with no display
attached. Sounds like a fun experiment...
There is one other option for deauthorization of computers.
If you have five (the max) authorized computers then you can deauthorize all
computers in the Apple Store. This is described in the iTunes help.
I hope this helps.
So the process of making a computer safe for resale should be.
1.
Quicklook can also be used to listen to audio files...
When you quicklook an audio file the playback will be paused if you switch to a
different application on the Mac and then will resume when you jump back to the
finder. Quicklook can also be used for HTML files in exactly the same way as
It is fairly straight forward in textedit to do non-stylized changes ie there
are shortcuts to Bold, Underline, Italic, Center, Justify, increase font and
decrease font.
(Most of these shortcuts work in any richtext based Macintosh application) What
pages does is set up or allow you to setup
There are a few options. The easiest is to use the Subscribe to podcast in the
advanced menu of iTunes.
If you goto the feed: url in Safari, then you should be able to review the
podcast there. there will also be a subscribe in mail button on the Safari
page. If you subscribe in mail then
I generally use VO-L (read line) some of what you want to use will depend on if
you are interacting with the input field. If you are not-interacting with the
input field then VO-F3 should work. If you are interacting then the commands to
read from beginning will give you the entire field.
You can build this under fink...
fink install re-alpinoperations-center:~ root#
operations-center:~ root#
operations-center:~ root# fink install re-alpine
Information about 10441 packages read in 2 seconds.
WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 19 days. You should run
'fink
using
iCatcher?
Maybe the official podcast name would help since there is the ability to
search for podcasts. Does anyone know the official name of the podcast?
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I am afraid you will have to be a little more specific.
1. In Lion by default every program that was running when you logout or
shutdown the computer will be restarted.
2. You can mark programs to start at login via the DOCK and/or system
preferences.
3. Several utility programs are started by
OK, just to make sure you are using GMAIL right?
If you followed what appears to be current best practices and configured your
systems to retrieve e-mail via IMAP and not POP, then where ever you create
the folder it will appear automatically in
a) Your GMail WEB Client
b) Your iPhone / iPad
Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard commander
is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the image in
the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi everyone, On the pc I could
The two sets of instructions do exactly the same thing, they modify the
properties file of the application which is sorta kinda like the registry in
Windows, though by no means as global.
So using the defaults command adds a new item to the appropriate plist file
using Apple standard
I believe you can also put MP3 files in your sounds library with success if you
don't feel like converting them. The worst thing that could happen is that the
sound file does not work.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Traci wrote:
Oh, I change other formats to .aiff. Ya
In snow Leopard, I usually select a chunck of text and then do a contextual
menu select and find create task. I am not sure if this is a mail contextual
menu, or a general text one.
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
Nothing in file for a to do list. Looks like
I don't believe you need to actually use lynx for this...
And if you don't need lynx then you don't need the developer tools and a UNIX
port program (macport and/or fink). The Macintosh has built-in for the command
line the curl command that can take a ftp and/or an http request and download
I find that sometimes a disclosure triangle is part of a group (like in the
mailbox list in Snow Leopard. In these cases, you need to interact with the
group before the right arrow will work. (It might be that there are ways the
developer could have the group just feed the arrow keys to the
Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find the
option to partition the disk?
Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one has
a tap to modify the partition table.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
OK. Information in
/System/Library is only supposed to be Apple items.
Items in /Library/ are items available to all users of the computer.
Items in /Users/myUserName/Library are generally only available to myUserName
If the computer is only being used by the owner, then there is no real
Some Snow Leopard folks actually deleted all the fields in the messages table
and then re-added them in order they wanted. Tables including this one have a
column header that a sighted person can see, and that VO's trackpad commander
can access if you go to the top of the column with a single
I had some minor success wit but I had no desire to really create a website.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
sandvox
On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi, Unfortunately i have no knowledge of html at all. I can upload stuff via
ftp if need be but dont know anything about programming.
I reviewed some of our taxes in Turbo Tax last year using VoiceOver. I did
very little data entry, so I am not sure about how well that works, but
TurboTax 2010 certainly was navigatable using VoiceOver, and our family will be
using the 2011 version too, so I can report back on that in a few
Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear.
There is a program called sandvox sandbox but the b as in bravo has been
changed to a v as in Victor. This program seems to allow some interesting HTNL
editing, but I did not spend much time on it. You can download it for free,
On Snow Leopard, the mail messages are stored in the ~/Library/Mail folder.
This folder defintately has all of the e-mail messages and I am fairly certain
that the Database that indexes the folders is also stored there. If it is not,
then it would be in the folder that Application Data
Version 7 just came out and I have seen no mention on the Blindness lists about
it, so it is probably too early to say. Earlier versions of Parralel did not
allow display chaining or as I understand it, and so were useless for jaws
users.
Jonathan
On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Anouk Radix
1. If you hold down the control key during boot, I believe it will first eject
the Disk.
Second, Don't you have Lion installed? perhaps you can use the Lion recovery
partition to install the OS.
Jonathan
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I have heard good things on another list about emacs speak working under the
Macintosh. They told me to look in the archive to find out how, and I have as
of yet not done that.
Jonathan
On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Hi, all,
I'm playing a little with Lynx and
Well, there are actually Smart Folders in Mail app directly too. They are
just a way to merge several Smart Mailboxes much the way that the Inbox folder
collects all of your different Inboxes into one view. If the Smart Mailboxes
allowed a bit more control in their selection criteria then you
If there is a command line interface to compress the files but no GUI and the
person wants something in the contextual menu, then a short automator script
should be able to enable this. I am not personally very agile at using the
automator, but there is certainly the ability to do shell
It is a document that the finder does not have a translation to describe what
it is. Generally every application has a plist file within the application
that lists file extensions that the application supports and also gives a
descriptive name to the file extension. This is how Word documents
Well, this is not exactly what you want, but default folder X is supposed to
allow you to have keyboard shortcuts and additional neat features in the file
dialog boxes. I have heard people rave about it, but I have personally never
tried it.
Are you running Snow Leopard? I don't know theconfiguration of signatures
for Lion.
To create a folder there is a button at the bottom of the list of folders.
Clicking this button is the easiest way to create a folder. I believe you can
also create one using a contextual menu on any
Kevin,
What I do is the following:
After typing a bit of a name I stop. Voice over then announces new window I
then make sure quick nav is turned off and just use the down arrow key. Also,
if the name mentioned is the one you want, then it will be completed by typing
a comma.
Best wishes,
I have had Snow Leopard ask me if I want to apply rules to the currently active
folder. If you say yes then it will do this.
After creating the rule there is also a menu around I think in the messages
contextual menu that allows you to apply rules.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 21, 2011, at
Actually if you are going to set it up as a key stroke, you might want to go a
little more complicated.
property RunState
if RunState is equal to stop then
tell application AUdio Hijack ... .. to run
set runState to running
else
tell application Audio Hijack to stop recording ..
set
Paul,
I would be glad to help you with APpleScript. I learned by tearing apart a few
applescript's and also by reading the Apple help documents available in the
Applescript editor help menu.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Colin and Darcy,
WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have
told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as a
class of quicktime player and so it is assuming the word movie is actually a
variable (identifier) but in syntactically a class is
playing
end tell
On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have
told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as
a class of quicktime player and so it is assuming the word movie is
actually
I had high hopes for Account Edge. But as soon as I started the demo I started
running into non-readable fields. I understand that Money Guru is a standard
accounting package and not a checkbook program, so perhaps that is accessable
and has the features you need.
Let us know, and also let
I have only one point of help for you.
You should be able to select an entire row or column if you go to the extreame
edge using the touchpad commander, and thenclicking on the item found. I have
not had much luck with navigating, but I wonder if the standard command down
would do the
I would be suprised if there was not a way to get a list of the URL's via
AppleScript.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi, sorry if this gets posted double but this kept staying in my drafts
folder.
Is it possible to export your list of subscribed podcasts from itunes to a
There is a text recognition command to send the current e-mail. I believe I
could set up the equivalent for you in an AppleScript if you want.
Jon
On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:40 PM, bill holton wrote:
Hi.
So it looks like I would have to construct a macro to press the send key and
then assign a
The only solution I have heard that really works is to use a terminal window
within emacsspeak. I have not tried this, but I have terminal fairly under
control.
The first thing to know is that by default terminal continually keeps the full
scroll back by default, so after 20,000 or so lines
Sounds like you have the twitter safari extension. Look in your extensions tab
of safari preferences and you should be able to turn it off or delete it.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Red.Falcon wrote:
Hi all!
I was also getting a Twitter page turning up and I do not
Yes you can override them in the keyboard shortcuts. At least I have
intentially overridden cmd-W to do another function.
Jon
On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Red.Falcon wrote:
No no no no!
Not that one Ricardo! lol!
I was looking for it in the keyboard shortcuts as you suggested!
It looks
Kim,
It would help to know what the dialog boxes say. There is a permissions issue
with the current iTunes and your AppleID account if you do not use the computer
as an administrator. I saw some notes on how to fix this, but I have not done
this yet.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 27,
I I believe the converter is called a pre-amplifier. External microphones work
OK, but the signal is too small for the line-in to recognize it.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
Wow, they've been doing this for a few years now. I wonder what the
, October 30, 2011 1:50 AM
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Subject: Re: Track pad commander question
Hi John,
I too am interested. How are you coming along with that script?
Thanks
On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
There is a text recognition command to send
I would trust Chris on this, he does has more experience than I do... However,
I would have expected that if the HTML had indicated that the content-encoding
was UTF-8 which I believe all Macintoshes use, then I would have expected the
accented characters to be displayed correctly on the web
Well, some of it is already there, and has been since before Voice Over, before
OSX and possibly even before Steve Jobs was kicked out by the board.
Macintoshes have had a speech recognition system. It does not work as flexibly
as Siri, but you can have it understand several hundred commands
Becky,
THe built in speech recognition on the Macintosh does not recognize words, it
recognises phrases. So you could for example hold down the escape key and say
switch to system preferences You would then hear a click and System
Preferences would be launched. If you want dictation, then
There is a application called Address Book. Starting it up, and hitting
command-N is the way to do this by scratch. Also when you are reading an
e-mail message and you hear data detector near a phone number, VO-shift-M will
bring up a contextual menu item including add to address book. Some
All songs in iTunes have a count of play times and count times. Though
generally, the play count is not displayed. Also, there is a remember location
and skip on random check boxes in the iTunes info box.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Daniel Montalvo Charameli wrote:
First may I recomend that you reconfigure your mac GMAIl to use IMAP.
Otherwise, when you delete from one system it may not delete from the other.
Now on to the IOS issue...
1. By default GMAIL does not delete, but archives e-mails. I am not sure if
this is important for you, but when you
Did you get a solution? I found that if I composed the message on myMac, and
then logged into GMAIL and went to drafts and sent from the web interface
e-mails that were not getting to Verizon started working again. If ISP's keep
this up, soon we will all be using Facebook which would be
Thanks for checking into this for me.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
Well, my son just informed me that a revised website will roll out on
December 9 for JetBlue. There may also be an iPhone app as well coming
around the same time. What's unclear
I have heard that tinkertool has a knob for this. I don't have it on my Lion
machine yet, so I can't test.
Jonathan
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In the accounts section of Mail Preferences there is a e mail address field.
Setting this will change what happens with replies. Note: some SMTP mail
servers (the systems that send mail out) limit what you can place in the from
line. Google for example only lets you use your gmail account
NO, the speech recognition built into MacOS is just for clicking on buttons and
running scripts and/or macros. If you need dictation dragon is, I believe, the
only alternative
On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Becky Knaub wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone know if you can use this option to dictate
Is the automatically cc check box in the composing pane of mail preferences
selected?
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi All.
This is for those who just use Me.com mail so those do not you can delete
this message.
If I write mail using my I
I believe somebody posted a link to something like VO helper. I
thought I had kept a copy of it, but I can't find it now.
Jon
On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I know there are screen sharing things like VNC but most of them
don't do audio or have good VO support since
The chat is accessable w/ VO if you change from Group to DOM mode. For
whatever reason, DOM mode works much better for HTML content that is
getting updated. This might be one of those places where using
AppleScript with VO might make sense. If there is a call back when
windows change that
I believe that the macintosh's firewall is advanced enough to be able
to support this ability, but the simplified interface to it provided
by System Preferences: is insufficient to do this.
Your choices are:
1. Look at a separate piece of hard ware (ie Airport Base Station ) or
other
Well I looked around a bit, and MicroCenter has a $200 off coupon or
rebate on the MacBook. I wonder if this applies to other Mac
equipment. It would probably be worth looking into.
Jon
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Two more notes on terminal.
by default terminal does not clear out scrollback items, so your entire
terminal session will be in both the terminal window and the VoiceOver text
block. You can change this in the preference panels or by hitting command-K
when you are about to start something
You can start textedit and open the program. I don't know about setting up a
default but if it is possible it would be the same basic process as for PDF
files. Also there is the command-line (terminal) command open
so to open file funnybone
open -a textedit funnybone
will open the file in
with thefollowing commands in terminal you should be able to do this.
find and/or for
mv (the unix rename command)
3. dirname a command that returns a file name w/o the extension)
Jon
On May 10, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote:
Evening all,
Is this possible under the current OS,
Lower down in your Account settings window, you will see a outgoing mailserver
item with a pop-up button. click the pop-up button and you will find a edit
SMTP serves line. Select this and you should be on your way...
Jon
On May 13, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Tony Hernandez wrote:
Hi.
I set up a
You are getting these errors because the Adobe plugin is still in your system.
In either:
/Library/Internet PLugins or home/Library/Internet Plugins
You should find a item from Adobe hthat should be removed. ..
On May 13, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Terry Klarich wrote:
Hello All:
In a previous
There was a article on how to do this in Tidbits 1-3 months ago. Do a search
on tidbits.com, they went into detail of how to set things up and what issues
might arise for example each system will download podcasts.
Best regards,
Jonathan
On May 1, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Neil Barnfather -
Do you run a software or hardware firewall?
You might need to open ports to the programs in question if you have the
software firewall enabled.
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There is a half off special from mac update today for a PDF converter. Haven't
had time to look at it, but perhaps there is a free demo version, and then if
it does what you need then you could purchas it.
On May 17, 2011, at 12:38 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
Erik:
With all due respect, I don't
I have done this with TIFF and PostScript files.
Even though I got a copy of Abby (old version) with my scanner, the new Abby
does not recognise my Epson Perfection scanner.
On May 18, 2011, at 1:21 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi:
I'm debating about purchasing Abbyy for my Mac to access it's
First note that the terminal gives you a UNIX shell and accepts most BSD UNIX
commands with no major issues.
In terms of cursor tracking as long as you interact with the text you should
not have many problems especially if you read my note from last week.
Best regards,
Jonathan
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20, 2011 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: terminal and voice over
Hi Paul,
First, you might want to read Jonathan Cohn's reply from last week on
terminal usability:
On May 13, 2011, Jon Cohn wrote:
Two more notes on terminal.
by default terminal does not clear out scrollback items, so your
On May 20, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote:
Hi Annie!
Has this program a function for making references to sources? Like I wrote
about for a cpouple of days ago regarding Pages?
I seriously need this tool, since it would make some of my papers so much
easier to handle.
in the pants--Ok, upgrade.:)
I absolutely hate having to tell people I need to use the PC to scan most
conveniently.
Thank you for your input.
Carolyn
On May 18, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
I have done this with TIFF and PostScript files.
Even though I got a copy of Abby (old version
I would expect that Voice Over is very sluggish for you. Usually when
something is between 93-110 percent CPU I have found that one of the threads
of the process is in what computer scientists call Infinite Loop. Yes, I know
that Apple HQ is at 1 Infinite Loop, but still this is not a good
106% of your cpu.
ash
On 22/05/2011 19:35, Jon Cohn wrote:
I would expect that Voice Over is very sluggish for you. Usually when
something is between 93-110 percent CPU I have found that one of the
threads of the process is in what computer scientists call Infinite Loop.
Yes, I know
/TCoYourPaperlessOffice-1.0-sample.pdf
Jonathan
On May 21, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Kestrell wrote:
What is the title and author of this book?
Kestrell
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Well, I found it on the main site when I clicked over to my profile and then
clicked on the link 186 friends
On May 23, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
You know, if Facebook would just do the right thing and make their main site
more accessible, we wouldn't have to go through all this.
Sounds like you are working on the symtoms. If you can hear the fans when the
computer gets hot then it is doing the right thing in terms of heat control.
Things to look at:
1. Are there any stuck processes. (look in force quit dialog for applications
that are not responding or in Activity
experience is that the User Agent switches back to Default when you open a
new tab or window. It is usually not a good idea to fake a User Agent in the
browser because certain JavaScript routines behave differently in the various
browsers, and complicated web sites like LinkedIN and FaceBook
What is your end goal? To activate Bluetooth on login or to have a script be
able to enable blue tooth audio?
It appears that launching the application BluetoothAudioAgent.app will enable
bluetooth audio. If this is the case, then the following APpleScript might do
the trick or you could set
Well, here is a start... This does not fully work because the make new
functions are not actually making a new window / tab .
Also a shell script (UNIX) using curl and say would be only three lines and
would be a little more responsive, though you would need to get a little fancy
with sed to
That article is a little old now. There are some things that GMAIL has changed
and there are weirdnesses that Apple has done with SPAM / Junk folders in
10.6.5 I believe. Except for possibly the use of the Spam folder, I think
most of the article will still work. The big change on the GMAIL
Hmm, I don't encounter this much any more. I believe that there is a link
after the first 5-6 names if it is like other address fields then it will
probably show up as a button that you have to route the mouse to and then do a
vo-shift-space or mouse click in order to expand.
Best of luck,
THis can happen on POP servers if if you keep messages on the server and one
of your mail preference files gets corrupted. I have seen some applescripts
perhaps even mentioned on this list that will analyze your Inbox and delete
duplicates.
If the duplicate count is below 50 messages then
Too many questions... I will answer just one.
Indeed there is a one line apple script to open a URL with your default
browser...
it is:
open location http://www.tidbits.com;
Let me know if you need help converting your URL into an AppleScript executable.
Jonathan
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