Re: Libra Office

2011-05-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have tried Libre Office and it's got about the same sowstoppers as Openoffice, that is wordprocessing, every line is presented as a different edit box, making it hard to read continuously and you can't as far as i know select long pieces of text. That's as far as i came before giving up

Re: Say Goodbye to Skype, Microsoft just bought it for 8.5 billion

2011-05-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I wonder what alternatives there could be for Skype. Too bad it's so big and popular, Skype, that is, i don't want any M$ bloatware on my beloved macs. /Krister 10 maj 2011 kl. 17.26 skrev Jes Smith: Hi all Looks like the days of Skype's being useful, and accessible to the blind are

Re: Other media players than iTunes.

2011-05-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey, Is Cog still under active development? I got the impression it wasn't, but i could be wrong. /Krister 14 maj 2011 kl. 00.34 skrev Ray Foret Jr: There's Cog too. That one has ENQ on it. I don't think any of the others do. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very

Re: Other media players than iTunes.

2011-05-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes, VLC supports Flac, but then we have the problem of not being able to take our .flac files with us on the IPhone, something that at least i want to do, hense my earlier question of long ago of converting .flac to ITunes friendly format using Max. /Krister 14 maj 2011 kl. 02.06 skrev Blake

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Unlike you i am a fan of Nuance voices. Why? Because they are multilingual and way better than the acapella ones in my oppinion.Finally we get to have swedish voices without buying 3rd party voices, if the rumors are true. Nice! /Krister 17 maj 2011 kl. 16.12 skrev Chris Moore: Don't panic,

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Considering that we finally get a swedish voice, and one that is way, way better than Acapellas, i do vote for Nuance anyday. The acapella voices, at least the swedish one has serious pronounciation issues, it adds words i haven't written and generally is annoying to my ears. /Krister 17 maj

Re: accessible web page maker

2011-05-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have briefly looked at an app called Rapid weaver. It's a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) style editor that is accessible to VO. You can both use coding, that is insert html tags yourself or you can use it rather like one uses a word processor. Both ways worked when i looked at it.

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Another thing i want to know, can Nisus writer pro handle Word documents directly, that is, do you, like in pages, have to export the document into word format or could you act upon, and save a word document directly? /Krister 20 maj 2011 kl. 14.35 skrev Thomas Byskov Dalgaard: Hi Annie!

Re: desk top facebook cliant?

2011-05-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What facebook client are we talking about here? Where might i get it to try it out? /Krister 23 maj 2011 kl. 14.42 skrev Ray Foret Jr: The Facebook cliant is pretty much okay. It's actually better than using the mobile site via the Mac itself. That's because of the changes they've made

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, What are the differences between the two if any, and which of them would you recommend when it comes to features and such? I want to be able to write statuses, comment/like other peoples posts and chat. Uploading photos is a plus though not a deal breaker if they're not there. /Krister

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have played around a bit with the pro version of Facetab, as this is the one that has chat support. It's accessible although there are some quirks i want you to beware of: 1 and possibly the most serious one, you can't like or comment with this app using the usual vo methods, since vo

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
control f reopens it. Hope this helps Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On May 24, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, I have played around a bit with the pro version of Facetab, as this is the one that has chat support. It's accessible although

Re: so what about face tab

2011-05-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, has anyone figured out anything about the following? On the main page you have notifications, and sometimes a link saying see more events but when you've clicked on the link you can't get back to the previous notifications and there's no way as far as i can tell to get to the notifications

Re: VizWiz

2011-05-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, It's interesting to note that VizWiz actually is available even in the Swedish app store, however i wonder whether the services offered by this app really works here, since i wonder if there are any scandinavian speaking volunteers at this time. ***ranting mode on*** Sometimes i wonder

Re: VueScan working great for OCR

2011-06-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I wonder what version of Vuscan one should go for, the 32-bit or the 64-bit one, i don't know what mode my mac runs in, what if i choose the wrong version? /Krister 10 jun 2011 kl. 09.34 skrev Anne Robertson: Hello søren, VueScan now supports 29 languages. I wouldn't be interested if it

Issues with VueScan 9.x

2011-06-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello there. I'm trying to use VueScan to see if it's as good as Abbyy when it comes to ocr and that kind of stuff. I have a problem, though. I can't seem to open textedit and see the results of the scanned documents, even though i have chosen to have textedit as external text editor. Do i have

Re: Issues with VueScan 9.x

2011-06-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
then VueScan to begin. Hope this helps! Take care, John André *** John André Netland - Voice/sms +47 971 68 794 Visit online at www.a-pro-studio.no *** On 12. juni 2011, at 13.19, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hello there. I'm trying to use VueScan to see if it's as good as Abbyy when

Re: Vuescan a disappointment for OCR

2011-06-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I believe this bug of an external program not opening despite you telling it to by checking the appropriate checkbox has been around since v8.x, but i could be wrong and it's me who does something stupid. /Krister 13 jun 2011 kl. 15.35 skrev Ray Foret Jr: Who ever said they got good

Vuescan 9.x crashes on scan

2011-06-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello people. When i try to scan a document to ocr text using vuescan, the application unexpectedly crashes and the settings for mediatype, scanning and printing size etc goes back to what they used to be, so instead of text, i scan to a jpeg file. Here are the exact steps i follow when this

Re: broadcast dj software!

2011-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi and thanks for the suggestion. I've now downloaded and had a quick first glance at the software. They are 99% there, because the keyboard managing is very good, however there are lots of unknowns, some of which can be interacted with, revealing a lot of controls that you can manipulate and

Re: anyone fooled with the new Amadeus Pro II yet?

2011-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
The big question is this: Have they as of yet implemented tha much needed scrub feature? The one where you audibly can search to places where you want to set start/stop points for editing? I really hope they have, since otherwise i don't think it's worth upgrading. /Krister 16 jun 2011 kl.

Re: anyone fooled with the new Amadeus Pro II yet?

2011-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: The big question is this: Have they as of yet implemented tha much needed scrub feature

Re: anyone fooled with the new Amadeus Pro II yet?

2011-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jun 16, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: What i mean is that when i go back or forward through a file with the cursors or whatever method i prefer other than playing, i want to audibly be able to hear where i am, much like on a reel to reel

Re: idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Please pardon my ignorance, but is the IDrum an app for the Mac and what is it supposed to be a plugin for? /Krister 2 jul 2011 kl. 07.04 skrev chad: hi i just downloaded the idrum app from the app store and its accessible but have a question if anyone has tried it can't figure out how

Re: re-idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I downloaded the trial version from Izotopes web site, but i must say, that after a brief glance at the app i don't understand a single thing. How do you make a pattern? How do you indicate where in the bar you want a beat? What are the different mode buttons like mode 64 c for? How do i

Re: re-idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Ok, i think i have encountered an accessibility issue here in the program. I could be wrong, and if i am, please correct me. There are 16 buttons for programming the drum machine, of all the buttons that are there, most are visible, however, those 16 buttons aren't at least i haven't seen them

Re: re-idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
with various functions, however, i have yet to make that function work. I really like these sounds, and i would be ever so sad if it turned out you can't work with various aspects of the program. Experiments continue. /Krister 2 jul 2011 kl. 14.31 skrev Krister Ekstrom: Ok, i think i have encountered

Re: re-idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
considering using the click command line tool when i get sighted assistance for the coordinates of maybe at least 5 channels. Also, found that the serial is on the site when you login, in case you need it for the plugin version best Yuma On 3/07/2011, at 1:17 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote

Re: re-idrum question

2011-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, The slave to host button is dimmed in my trial version and besides, i assume that using IDrum that way means that i have to do the drum programming freehand, that is not quantized in any way, which doesn't work for me, since i'm terrible at keeping a steady beat, so i must have things

IDrum - possible breakthrough

2011-07-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey folks. I was experimenting again with IDrum because despite some obstacles i thought it was a program too good to give up. you may remember that i said that no matter how i clicked and right clicked i couldn't get a menu to pop up. This may be solved now, but i don't know how permanent or

Re: idrum pattern stepp selector

2011-07-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Ahem, where did you find that step selector? Are you sure it isn't the one to change patterns with? /Krister 3 jul 2011 kl. 13.53 skrev Yuma Decaux: Alright, it seems as though the accessibility has been added with a different paradigm. They use step up and down to select a step on a given

An accessible, mac compatible midi keyboard anyone?

2011-07-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Please forgive me if this is way off topic, but, i'm thinking of getting a midi keyboard to be able to work effectively with Garageband, virtual synths etc. Now i don't have much experience with midi keyboards, and i've ever only had a cheapo one where you had to change midi instructions

Re: An accessible, mac compatible midi keyboard anyone?

2011-07-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
6 jul 2011 kl. 11.22 skrev Yuma Decaux: Try M-audio keyboards. However, you won't have much luck mapping effects to knobs etc Ahem, why? Are the mappings inaccessible, if so why should i try those keyboards? /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Usb or NAS revisited

2011-07-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, As so often here and other places, i stumble upon a thread and sorta think it's not interesting to me now and go on, however i read in this particular thread and it placed ideas in my poor spinning head, so this is my question: Someone here mentioned that they had a Buffalo NAS, don't

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose the Mac platform to get away from blind specific solutions and be more standard, thus being able to more easily communicate with

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
audio tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
wanted audio tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
it wouldn't be coded to handle Twitter's new authorization scheme. It sure sounds like it was neat, though. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:13 AM

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
search from a twitter client? If I wanted audio tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose the Mac platform to get away from blind specific solutions and be more standard, thus being able to more

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I am using my Mac full time and have done so ever since i got it about 2 and a half years ago. I have Vmware fusion on the machine, but the only thing i use windows for today is websites that have captchas and audio games, nothing more. /Krister 11 jul 2011 kl. 16.20 skrev james walton:

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
, at 6:48 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Where do you go to see the timestamp, I was under the impression you couldn't, period, berried or not. Enlighten me. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
11 jul 2011 kl. 16.35 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland: Are you afraid in using a blind product? Are you afraid to admit you're blind Not as afraid as blind folks seem to be of using mainstream products that get updated frequently and don't insult our inteligence by over simplifying the

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose

Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
a twitter client? If I wanted audio tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must

Accessing things in the status bar was Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
a stopwatch build in. Just my thoughts. On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we chose the Mac platform to get away from blind

Re: Accessing things in the status bar was Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
though to route the mouse with my vo+command+F5? What do I need to have focused when I do this. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:42 AM Subject: Accessing things

Re: HTML Editor

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
There's a program called Rapidweaver that seems really accessible and workable. It's available in the app store and you can go from there to the developers home page for a demo. /Krister 11 jul 2011 kl. 18.20 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland: Ahh, ok. Now I see the need for your question.

Re: Accessing things in the status bar was Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
it left, or do you mean more literally click and drag. I tried both ways with no luck. Track pad commander was disabled. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:54 AM Subject: Re

Re: Accessing things in the status bar was Re: Porting qwitter to mac?

2011-07-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
cursor instead of mouse follows voiceover cursor. Once I changed this setting, it worked perfectly. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Accessing things

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I have tried Vuescan and i must say i'm not satisfied with it. Firstly, it crashes on me after having scanned a document, and when it works, the ocr isn't at all as good as that of Abbyy finereader Express, which is my ocr app of choise. I don't know why this is, only that it is like that. I

Re: Skype 5.2 and conference calls

2011-07-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, When you're in a conversation, press cmd+shift+a to add people. You will be in a window with an edit box and a table. Type part of a name in the edit box, then vo+right arrow once to the table and interact with it. Here should be a list of names corresponding to the letters you typed.

Re: [Bulk] Joining a call to aa conference on skype?

2011-07-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes it will. As far as i know, there's no way to join an incoming call to a conference that you are in, which is a PITA in my opinnion. If anyone has discovered a way to join an incoming call to an existing conference, please let me know, there has to be a way. /Krister 12 jul 2011 kl. 23.02

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
with ABBYY FineReader, then you won't want to upgrade to Lion in a hurry. According to roaringapps.com FineReader isn't compatible with Lion. However, VueScan is shown as compatible with Lion. Cheers, Anne On 12 Jul 2011, at 14:13, Krister Ekstrom wrote: I have tried Vuescan and i

Re: Big step of Amadeus Pro 2 in terms of accessibility

2011-07-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Too bad he hasn't implemented real scrubbing in Amadeus, that is you can hear where you go as you go with the left- and right keys as well as shift left and shift right and the speed decreases as you zoom in on the sound. Now he has cuing like a cd player, but i'd rather have it as in Reaper,

Re: single letter navigation

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey there. I would love to get my head around this quicknav thingy, but it just confuses me to no end. I know the basics of it, but i sorta forget i have it on and suddenly my arrows do strange things unless i turn the quicknav off. I assume there are ways to use the quick nav but well i just

Re: one new feature of Lion I absolutely love!

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Wow! that sounds like a really cool feature, this must be investigated. Me, i played a bit with the drag and drop yesterday. Not so much that i know that it works in *all* situations, but i can say that it works for say dragging something from the finder to mail. I don't know the commands on

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Ok, pardon my total and utter ignorance here, but are we *really* supposed to be able to move applications around? After all, they are all placed in the same folder and the launch pad should reflect that folder, right? Or is there something obvious i have missed as usual? /Krister 21 jul 2011

Re: Mail Impressions in Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. Could you please give an example of how you're using quick nav now compared to before? I have never gotten into that quicknav thing, even since the beginning of Snow leopard. Can't seem to get the hang of it. Maybe that it's true, that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.:-)

Re: Lion has potential, but...

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I haven't noticed anything that could be wrong with ITunes, other than that letter navigation in the browser seems to be broken. It has been so before. Was it a dealb breaker then? No it wasn't. Is it a deal breaker now? No it isn't. iTunes seems to be very sluggish sometimes, but then again,

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
One situation where the launchpad could come in handy is if you don't have an application in the dock and don't want to sift through loads of files in the apps folder itself, i found it quite nice to just go into the launchpad and find the app from there. And how is it, does drag/drop not work

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
, seeing you can type the first few letterws of the app, and be taken right to it, then just command+o. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Launchpad

Re: lion and voiceover's drag and drop

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Did you close the window with the file that you marked for drag and drop? If so, the file isn't visible and thus can't be dragged. The only time i got the message that the file wasn't available was when i tried to send a file via Airdrop to my iMac from my Macbook. I had to open another

Re: Making Mail Easier with Activities

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I love the fact that you not only can make activities automatic to certain programs, but also manual so you can use them wherever you want. This has very great potential. Anyone knows if hotspots were saved between sessions, that is when you started and shut down the computer in Snow

Re: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Strange, i didn't have a problem dragging an app on top of another app in Launchpad. I managed to create a folder, the problem came after that, when i couldn't open the folder. I'll look into this again today, i'm sure there's a way to do it. I don't experience any sluggishness with mail,

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
don't you just add the app to the doc? In the Journey, Ron On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: One situation where the launchpad could come in handy is if you don't have an application in the dock and don't want to sift through loads of files in the apps folder

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I used drag and drop, it worked… sorta… thing was that when i then tried opening a folder containing the programs i had moved, nothing happened. Have to see if this can be rectified. /Krister 22 jul 2011 kl. 07:36 skrev Austin Seraphin: Well the getting started guide has now gone up, and it

Re: Lion: Worth The Upgrade?

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Could someone please help this stupid old dog see the light about quick nab? What's new? What makes it so good now? Can i do more now than i could in SL where i didn't use it at all because i thought it was umm not exactly counterproductive, but… confusing. /Krister 22 jul 2011 kl. 07:03 skrev

Re: single letter navigation

2011-07-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi all. When i read this post, i get the feeling we are getting forms mode back again, and i who so wanted to avoid this. It seems, judging by Chriss's description as if this quick nab/single letter navigation feature is quite pointless. Why do i keep hearing a voice in my head saying: Welcome

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I wholeheartedly agree with Chris here. Calm down, folks. If there's an issue, first check if there's a solution or workaround for the thing, if not, ask a question here, after the frustration has settled, and if that doesn't help, write a polite letter to Apples Accessibility team. I've got a

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. Currently, i only have one activity set up and that is for social networking apps that are in English and where i know i will only write in English, such as Skype and Yorufukurou. Here i have an activity with an english voice as a default instead of a swedish one. This makes use of

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Let me also add that for every major upgrade of a program or an operating system, especially if you add a lot of new features, there's bound to be new bugs as well. I wouldn't dream of ever downgrading, despite the fact that i can see some bugs, or things that are different from the way i

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On the other hand, if we didn't pounce on a new operating system the day it came out, but rather waited until som bug fixes came along, how would we know what bugs needed to be fixed? How would we know how the system worked in practice? Maybe we should demand that there were public betas of the

Live regions what are they - was Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello. This whole discussion about live regions and the like starts to make me wonder a bit. What are live regions and what are they supposed to do for us? I know they are a part of the area or how it's spelled thing, but what are they doing and why would we want them. This doesn't apply only

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I wonder if activities are exportable? Also i wonder where they get saved and if the operation of VO could be sluggish if you had many activities. /Krister 23 jul 2011 kl. 19:33 skrev Austin Seraphin: Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with activities, I provide

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
23 jul 2011 kl. 20:28 skrev Teresa Cochran: In the history menu in Safari, uncheck Reopen all windows from last session. It's unchecked, same problem anyways. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: I wholeheartedly agree with Chris here. Calm down, folks. If there's an issue, first check if there's a solution or workaround for the thing, if not, ask a question here, after the frustration has settled, and if that doesn't help, write a polite

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
issue is not that bad, but just a little annoying. I sure would like to know if I can get Safari to open only my home page and not all the tabs and windows I had open the last time before quitting Safari. On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: I wholeheartedly agree with Chris

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
24 jul 2011 kl. 00:59 skrev Andre Nuno Soares: In Snow Leopard, Safari 5.1 now has the option in Preferences, General, Safari opens with that you can set to: All windows from last session or A new window. This option isn't there under Lion, at least not in my Safari. Now this is really

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
to start interacting with it. The second issue is not that bad, but just a little annoying. I sure would like to know if I can get Safari to open only my home page and not all the tabs and windows I had open the last time before quitting Safari. On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Krister Ekstrom

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
at most to switch pages, and I have trouble imagining a setting where a few seconds is absolutely essential. Best, Zack. On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:45 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, There has to be a good way of doing this, otherwise, it feels like a real deal breaker and one i don't understand

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
This has to be tested. It's always interesting to learn new things. /Krister 24 jul 2011 kl. 13:14 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland: To jump between the pages, hit ctrl+Tab. Chris. - Original Message - From: Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com To: macvisionaries

Re: Adium! Will, you? shut? up?!

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I have seen this but haven't found a workaround. I'm thinking to myself i wonder what would happen if i switched the adium voice for the events to one of the nuance voices, would that help things? Does the problem lye within Adium or Lion? Is it the same issue with say Skype, that also can

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
As i understand it, and i can be wrong, you'll have to tell Mail if you want to see related mails from other mailboxes or not. This could be done from the view menu or from preferences if you always wanted to have mails from other mailboxes included. /Krister 23 jul 2011 kl. 22:06 skrev Mary

Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Ahem, this left and right arrow thingy doesn't seem to work properly for me in conversations. I'm using the preview pane, should i do that? Are your conversations always expanded? /Krister 24 jul 2011 kl. 02:20 skrev Tim Kilburn: Hi all, In playing with various things in Mail's new view,

Re: Anyone figured out Air Drop?

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have actually sent a whole folder using airdrop, it's mighty cool. Firstly, both macs must run Lion. Open your finder on your Macintosh hd for example and go to the side bar. Now, quite high up in the table there's something called airdrop, choose that and stop interacting with the side

Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
to either hit vo+up and down arrow if quick nab is off or just up and down arrow if it is on. Left and right will work too. Hope this helps. On Jul 24, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Ahem, this left and right arrow thingy doesn't seem to work properly for me in conversations. I'm

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
it in TextEdit, in which case turning it off in system prefs isn't necessarily the best solution. On Jul 24, 11:50 am, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Sorry for my total ignorance here, but i can't understand the point, even for a sighted person to have all windows from last

The show more link in Mail?

2011-07-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi good people. Sometimes i want to see what's been said in other mails in a conversation of mail without necesarily leaving the message itself, in other words i want to see the quoted material. To this end, there's a link that says show more, however, try as i might, i can't reach it with VO.

Re: USB headsets?

2011-07-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I've heard from some people, though i don't know if this is a Lion issue or something else entirely, that the Plantronics Audio 995 wireless headset has trouble in Skype, it buffers, but only when you are hosting a conversation. Why it would do this is beyond me, but so i've heard. /Krister

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I agree with the things said here, take the ITunes bugs for instance. I can definitely see some sluggishness in Itunes behavior, but when i do a search for say a specific artist, and the list gets smaller, i don't have the sluggishness issues at all. I've got about 1 songs in my ITunes

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
25 jul 2011 kl. 02:40 skrev matthew Dyer: If you remember when 10.6 was released, 10.6.1 came out with in a week of its first release. And i have read in the Swedish Macworld, that 10.7.1 is due out within a few weeks. I'm not worried at all and i as i said before don't even begin to

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-25 Thread Krister Ekstrom
happy. Once an update comes ouut, I might post back another review. Catcha later, James On 7/25/11, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: 25 jul 2011 kl. 02:40 skrev matthew Dyer: If you remember when 10.6 was released, 10.6.1 came out with in a week of its first release

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
jul 2011 kl. 19:30 skrev anouk radix: Op 13-7-2011 12:04, Krister Ekstrom schreef: Ok, then i really have to be sure that it's not me who is doing things wrongly here. The strange thing is that many times when i try to scan, Vuescan crashes just after the scan and produces a .rtf file

Re: lion toughest and one question

2011-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, As i understand it, the braille support is more an european issue than an american one, being that we in Europe seem to use braille displays more than the Americans do, due to various reasons, so it's up to the European authorities and people to tell Apple accessibility in a polite way that

Re: Why use a TrackPad?

2011-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have a magic trackpad and use it sometimes, however, unlike on IOs devices, i don't trust the trackpad for some stupid, unlogical reason. It should be like working with an IDevice, which i can do with no problems, but for some reason i feel the track pad gestures aren't enough and i don't

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
the Hamrick website? I can't guarantee that it will help, since the French just got worse with the French OCR package. We've contacted Ed Hamrick about this but had no reply yet. Cheers, Anne On 26 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Yes i am scanning in Swedish, and Swedish

Re: using a mac full time?

2011-07-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
get such a warning, and heck it works now so why complain?:-) /Krister 26 jul 2011 kl. 15:34 skrev Krister Ekstrom: Hm, i didn't think it was necessary, but i could always try going there and downloading that package, since the results i get now from Vuescan are so terrible they remind me

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Ok, i may be naive to the point of stupidness here, but i hope and pray to God that we will be free from scripting on the VO platform. One of the reasons why i switched from PC to Mac was the fact that not only did we have to pay a horrible amount of money for screen readers and the like, but

Re: Good Things About Lion and Safari

2011-07-29 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes, i don't have any problems with my preferences either. Everything seems to work as it should now. In fact, the things i've seen as bugs have been reported to Apple Accessibility and i've gotten confirmation that they are being worked on, so i'm convinced they will be fixed sooner or later.

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