not very much fun at all.
Mary
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On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
mailto:aus...@behindthecurtain.us wrote:
Only Voiceover. Interesting question.
- Austin
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! http
, or is it also music Or movies?
On Jan 29, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
mailto:aus...@behindthecurtain.us wrote:
Hi everyone. I just upgraded to 10.10.2. I also notice better performance,
and it behaves like the most recent beta as stated. Very good!
I still
Hi everyone. I just upgraded to 10.10.2. I also notice better performance, and
it behaves like the most recent beta as stated. Very good!
I still have annoying VoiceOver audio dropouts however. This started when I
upgraded to Yosemite. Last weekend I wiped my drive and installed 10.10.1 then
Cribbage Pro
Lost Cities
- Austin
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! http://behindthecurtain.us
On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:11 AM, Nancy Badger nancybad...@icloud.com wrote:
Kings corner not exactly what you want but close
Nancy Badger, Ph.D
Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Hi everyone. Since upgrading to Yosemite I’ve had a horrible VoiceOver lag. I
know I run it on a 2010 iMac, four years old, but it ran just fine with
Mavericks. Now sometimes it gets to the point where I can hardly use my
computer. It lags and sputters and stops. If I would have known I would
I just found another way sort of by accident:
1. Go to the vertical slider between the messages list and the preview pane.
2. Hit Vo-command-f5 to route the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor.
3. Do a double tap by quickly hitting Vo-Shift-Spacebar twice.
- Austin
Pay no attention to that
I just upgraded my iMac to Mac OS 10.8.2. Now I have a serious VoiceOver lag.
It stops speaking and words get broken up. I sort of hope it just resolves
itself, but I thought I'd post here to see if anyone else has experienced it. I
rebooted once after the upgrade but that didn't help. Any
much
about it.
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I just upgraded my iMac
The posts should show up on the main part of your site. Perhaps check the date
of the post? You might also like to check out MacJournal or MarsEdit, both fine
editors for the Mac which will let you directly publish to Wordpress blogs. I
use MacJournal and love it. It certainly makes life a lot
I just upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion. I use a standard Apple keyboard. Now
I notice if I leave it unattended for a few minutes, the keyboard seems to lock
up. Hitting a key makes it eventually repeat it a number of times. This seems
most apparent when using command-tab to switch to another
I should have said that the problem happened after upgrading from 10.8 to
10.8.1.
- Austin
On Aug 27, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
wrote:
I just upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion. I use a standard Apple keyboard.
Now I notice if I leave it unattended
On Aug 27, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
wrote:
I just upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion. I use a standard Apple keyboard.
Now I notice if I leave it unattended for a few minutes, the keyboard seems
to lock up. Hitting a key makes it eventually repeat
Yup. It happens if you have your Apple TV going to a television. I worked
around it by purchasing a Digital to Analog Converter on Amazon. THis device
plugs into the optical output of the Apple TV, and offers a line out which you
can patch into your stereo. It works like a charm.
- Austin
Interesting. I just tried getting AirFoil working, and it crashed with this
error:
NSOSStatusErrorDomain (Error: #-10810)
I don't know if it relates, but found it interesting we both have an AirPlay
problem. I'll send them an email.
- Austin
On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Chris Gilland
:
Austin,
What model Mac are you using? I'm trying to pinpoint down if this really is
an issue with me not having a compatible system, or am I just stupid.
Chris.
On Jul 25, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
wrote:
Interesting. I just tried getting AirFoil
Hey, I use MacJournal from Mariner Softare.
https://www.marinersoftware.com/macjournal
- Austin
On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
I have been looking around for an accessible blogging client for the mac for
a while. I post on bloodspot and wordpress, but the web interface
I just saw this on Cult of Mac. I haven't tried it, but it if it works then
some of you would enjoy it.
http://www.cultofmac.com/173945/how-to-read-kindle-books-in-ibooks-and-keep-your-library-in-the-cloud-how-to/?utm_medium=twitutm_campaign=spread-us
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e SIP phone clients, both Telephone available from the Mac app store and Blink
available from http://icanblink.com both work well. They sound better too.
I just noticed this long thread so someone else has probably brought this up,
but it drives me mad how the new Skype keeps saying Skype has
Sorry to report that this new app seems inaccessible. I opened it and just got
a blank window over top of finder. Have I missed something? I'd love to find a
better syncing service than Dropbox, which to me seems like one of those things
that works until you really need it. Too bad Sparkleshare
, repeat. He had me
clean out my .OfflineCache directories buried within ~/Library/Mail. Wow.
- Austin
On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
I have no idea why, but recently Mail has begun delaying while composing
messages. It happens from time to time and the delay lasts a second
I have no idea why, but recently Mail has begun delaying while composing
messages. It happens from time to time and the delay lasts a second or two,
then the characters entered all come up at once. I wonder what has changed to
cause this. Any ideas? Thanks. This happens in Mac OS 10.7.3.
-
I've started playing with AirFoil. It rocks. It lets you pipe an application's
audio through AirPlay. This also lets you select your audio source, giving a
way to make iTunes use a different audio output. I want to ditch iTunes for
music playing of course, and if possible would like to use the
the next time around.
Take care.
Rodney
On Monday, March 12, 2012 4:51:04 PM UTC-4, Jane Jordan wrote:
What? Here in pHiladelphia and I didn't know? *sighs*
Jane
On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
Recently, the Pennsylvania regional chapter of the American Council
Recently, the Pennsylvania regional chapter of the American Council of the
Blind partnered with local Apple stores to put on a VoiceOver event. I rocked
out at the Mac table. I wrote an article about it. Share and enjoy.
http://behindthecurtain.us/2012/03/12/todays-voiceover-event/
- AUstin
If you have an iPhone 4S then you have to check out the Vocal app. You have to
download the iPhone portion for $1.99 from the iOS app store. Search for Vocal,
you want the one by Matthew Roberts. Then download the Mac component from
http://mtrbts.me/vocal/
Unfortunately I can't find a way to
Hey. I had the exact same problem. You have to disable VoiceOver when you do
the actual click. So go to the button, route with Vo-Command-F5, then disable
VoiceOver with Vo-f5. Wait a moment, then hold down the option key and click on
the lower left corner of the trackpad. Then release and
I figured I should write something.
http://behindthecurtain.us/2011/10/05/the-death-of-steve-jobs/
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Yeah also, the last example shows a blind woman, the one who receives a spoken
text. Pretty cool! I wrote an article about it:
http://behindthecurtain.us/2011/10/04/what-todays-apple-event-means-to-the-blind/
- Austin
On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Traci wrote:
Holy wow! That was cool! I'm
I searched and found someone asked this before. How do you option-click a
button? Ricardo mentioned turning the Trackpad commander off and clicking while
holding down the option. I tried that and just got the desktop, or more likely
whatever random object over which my finger sat. So does
Hey everyone. Scrivener rocks! I just posted a review. Enjoy.
http://behindthecurtain.us/2011/09/07/scrivener/
- Austin
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I have a feeling some have discussed this, feel free to point me to anything
relevant. I keep getting Safari busy problems and they have started driving me
mad. I use Safari 5.1 with Lion. To replicate the problem, go to
http://startpage.com (an awesome search engine) and type in a query and
Hi. I just started using Fidelity. Their web site works well enough, but I
really enjoy their iPad app. You can transfer money, pay bills, and make stock
trades with ease.
- Austin
On Aug 4, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Scott Bresnahan wrote:
Good day,
I'm soliciting feedback on national US or
You can configure hotspots per application with activities. As for AppleScript,
I've poked around a little and want to learn it more. Someone here posted a
script to speak the battery percentage, and I modified it to also say the
remaining time. Not bad for not knowing the language! I did note
. The
hotspot chooser menu shows the hotspots as each being inactive. I'd
appreciate any suggestions and direction.
Brett C.
On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with
activities, I provide a good example
I don't know if you can get it to switch languages on the fly, but you could at
least create an appropriate activity.
1. Go into VoiceOver utility with Vo-f8.
2. Go down to activities, then go over to the add button and hit it. Type in a
name, Spanish for example.
3. Now you'll see your new
Try going to it and hitting Command-E to eject it.
On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
I hoooked up my VR Stream to my Mac to transfer some files. I tried to eject
the unit after the copy was done but for some reason the VR Stream continued
to show up on the Drives list. I
web pages in Safari.
Donna
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:43 PM, carlene knight wrote:
I'm having the same issue, and I was addicted to the thing, especially when
using Facebook or finding articles that the Reader couldn't.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
Oh dear. I love
Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with activities, I
provide a good example there. Basically, you can set up hot spots to take you
to the different parts of the mail view, and thanks to activities those hot
spots only work within mail, making hot spots much more
I've noticed that terminal has begun truncating lines. If I use Vo-L I can hear
the line, or if in an editor I can arrow up and down and hear it sometimes, but
I wondered if anyone else has experienced this. I made sure I have the window
at full size, and the program not in full screen. has
use it all that
regularly.
Best,
Zack.
On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
I've noticed that terminal has begun truncating lines. If I use Vo-L I can
hear the line, or if in an editor I can arrow up and down and hear it
sometimes, but I wondered if anyone else has
, then
language and keyboard I think it's called. Then under there, go to the text
tab. Down near the bottom you'll see the box to automatically correct
spelling as you type. Uncheck that, hit command+W, and boom! You're all set.
Chris.
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aus
and it worked. I still
wish they'd add command-x by default but oh well.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Aa! Vo+Comma and period! I wondered how to do that!
Nice!
Chris.
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aus...@behindthecurtain.us
Yes, activities do exactly this. Go into the VoiceOver utility and you will see
an Activities category. You can add an activity and configure any of the
settings you want, including a different voice or verbosity. Then save and exit
the utility. To use the activity just use VO-X, and VO-X-X
I noticed I had to redo a few VoiceOver settings. If something seems weird make
sure to go through your VoiceOver preferences very carefully, because the
feature may have just gotten disabled somehow. For me, this happened with
auto-web spots.
- Austin
On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:03 PM,
Hi. It probably just needs to index your files. Mine took some time to do that.
If it's started working by now then there you go.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Ashley Cox wrote:
Hey all,
just tried to do a spotlight search in lion. I hit cmd space, and it told me
something about spotlight
I don't know about worthless. I actually think it might have some cool
potential. It does have a few differences than a standard grid view. Firstly,
in theory, you can drag and drop applications like in iOS. This includes
dropping one application on top of another to form a folder. Many blind
Oh wow! How did you find this? You've found a shurtcut for moving! So cool.
So I tried it, and I had better success in column view than list view. I
couldn't quite get it in the right place with list view, only in the root or
/Users. I tried collapsing and expanding the directory, as well as
Since the upgrade I periodically receive a message that Finder has new window.
Any clue why?
- Austin
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Oh dear. I love the item chooser, and just tried using it on a web page. I
tried typing a few letters in a row to narrow down the selection, but it just
acted like I typed one letter. Now it just seems unpredictable with multiple
letters. Interestingly, I tried it in mail and it worked as
When I installed Lion on my iMac, I had to reconnect my Magic Trackpad. You may
have to as well. Hit Vo-M-M then arrow over to Bluetooth, then down to your
trackpad to make sure. You may also have to hit the button on the trackpad for
a few seconds to reset it.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:10 PM,
the window chooser up, or yhit
command+accent grave to investigate?
Chris.
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aus...@behindthecurtain.us
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:55 PM
Subject: Finder has new window.
Since the upgrade I
, this is just my situation, but if you are using ™, it might be
the case as well.
Take Care
John Panarese
jpanar...@gmail.com
On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
Since the upgrade I periodically receive a message that Finder has new
window. Any clue why?
- Austin
like to know if anyone has this same experience.
Brett C.
On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Oh, weird. Item chooser is working fine here with Safari to the best I
can tell.
Chris.
- Original Message - From: Austin Seraphin
aus
Well the getting started guide has now gone up, and it even has a little
section about launchpad. Annoyingly though, it doesn't say how to move
applications. I emailed Apple. We'll see.
- Austin
On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:04 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Lol,
That makes no sense. As you can see
Activities have some great potential. You can make any VoiceOver settings
application specific. For example, I created a new activity called Mail,. I
enabled hot spots, and checked Mail in the applications. I then quit the VO
utility and went to Mail. This uses the new mail view in Lion, but
Hi. I've just installed Lion on both my iMac and my MacBook Air. Of course
things seem a little different, but I feel glad I upgraded. Over all VoiceOver
seems more responsive, Safari too. It seems to load pages more quickly, and it
has more accessibility options and improvements. For example,
Ok so has anyone figured this out? I really hoped for an iOS-style home screen,
and it definitely seems similar. But how does one move apps around with
VoiceOver? I tried dragging and dropping, including with the cool new commands
VO-comma to mark and VO-period to drop. Nothing worked. I really
Good timing. I had a weird Adium issue as well. At least I think I traced it to
Adium. Once in a while VoiceOver would start saying Row 1 expanded. Over and
over again. It started driving me nuts. I quit Adium and the problem stopped. I
guess row 1 refers to the contact list? Has anyone else
Hi. I just wrote a post about the Productive Macs Bundle. It includes reviews
of all eight programs: Textexpander, Pathfinder, Socialite, HoudahSpot, Today,
Blast, Keyboard Maestro, and Mail Act-On. Enjoy. I welcome comments or
corrections.
In case any of you wanted to try the excellent MPortfolio app available from
the app store, I wanted to tell you one critical tip to avoid a major freakout.
By default, it displays positive and negative values in different colors, as
opposed to prepending negative values with a - sign. In other
I went through quite the ordeal to get my precious iPad 2. I wrote an article
about it:
http://behindthecurtain.us/2011/03/24/the-quest-for-my-ipad-2/
I'll post an actual review soon enough. Enjoy.
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I use Amadeus to do podcasts. So I have a track with my voice. Then ideally
I will have another track with the intro and outro music. I think I've
figured about expanding and collapsing the boxes in the scroll area to tell
it the track(s) on which you wish to work
I use Amadeus to do podcasts. So I have a track with my voice. Then ideally I
will have another track with the intro and outro music. I think I've figured
about expanding and collapsing the boxes in the scroll area to tell it the
track(s) on which you wish to work, do I have that right? Anyway,
I've started getting into GarageBand. Thanks Ricardo for your podcasts, they've
helped. I'd also welcome any other tutorials people have done. I do have a
somewhat weird question, but I want to tackle it right away because I'll need
to do it.
Normally, instruments tune Middle C to somewhere
While wandering around the net I came across something which has me excited:
MacRuby. http://macruby.org
This implementation of Ruby 1.9 accesses objective C++ objects directly,
without using a bridge. In the tutorial it tells you how to access the Cocoa
framework right away. I wonder if one
Hi. I don't know about the DS50, but I have a DM520 and it works beautifully,
at least using it as a standard drive. I don't know about the software that
comes with it, I just use Finder, the program for navigating files, the Mac
version of Windows Explorer.
On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:04 PM,
It always amazes me how Mac users have a family vibe. We feel empathy when we
hear of the death of a fellow Mac user. Because of this, I first wanted to pass
on the sad news that a long-time Mac user and professional musician has passed
away. Peter Sleazy Christopherson helped found such
Something very strange just happened. While browsing in Safari, Voiceover
suddenly reset. I mean, the speech reset, I had to set the rate etc. as I like
it. I even had to reenable the numpad and trackpad commanders. I use the latest
Safari 5.0.3 and it happened while
-11-11, at 5:36 PM, Austin Seraphin aus...@behindthecurtain.us
wrote:
I just wanted to chime in on this thread. I went from using a netbook to a
MacBook Air, and definitely notice the difference. Admittedly, for me, my
netbook had a rather nonstandard configuration. It came with a Windows
Ok. The other night, I felt very proud that I figured out how to get file
sharing working. I would never have dared to set up a Linux or Windows network
for the first time at 03:30 in the morning, but once again Apple came to the
rescue. It even speaks FTP and someone on Twitter even said NFS.
Hi. I run wordpress on my own server, and love it. http://behindthecurtain.us
You might like to check out MacJournal from http://marinersoftware.com. You get
a free 15-day trial or something. Among other things, it lets you import and
export to Wordpress. I have a whole journal which more or
I just wanted to chime in on this thread. I went from using a netbook to a
MacBook Air, and definitely notice the difference. Admittedly, for me, my
netbook had a rather nonstandard configuration. It came with a Windows XP
partition, and a second blank partition presumably for media files and
Perhaps someone already said this. To turn off a bunch of the blank blank
blank when reading mail:
1. Hit Vo-M and go to the View menu.
2. Arrow down to the Columns submenu.
3. Hit the right arrow and you will see checkboxes for all the things it can
show. Uncheck any that don't seem relevant.
Hi. I had the same choice. I opted for the iMac, because I plan to do audio
editing. If you just want to do general tasks and want to spend less then go
for the Mac Mini. If you think you'll want more power and don't mind spending a
little more you might want to consider the iMac. The Mac Mini
Identifier
app you mentioned in your article.
Have a good one.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2010-11-04, at 3:14 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
Hello. I have had quite a last few months. Apples everywhere! First, I got
an iPhone in June. I wrote an article about
Hi Marlaina. I thought of a tip for you. Not to confuse you further, but the
function keys can act in two different ways. By default, they perform system
functions, such as changing the volume or muting. Watch out for that last one.
If you hit F10 it will mute your sound. Just hit it again to
Ok MacBook Air Lovers. A company just released the first case for the MacBook
Air, and I posted a review:
http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/11/04/the-waterfield-designs-macbook-air-sleeve/
It really completes the setup. You need a good case to protect such a beautiful
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Ok let's get things going with some weird and perhaps some not so weird
questions. Has anyone gotten trackpad gestures to work with Emacs? I don't mean
some new kind of Mac, I mean the text environment for Unix-like systems,
especially GNU/Linux. I know they have mouse bindings, and I can use
So people told me to get Growl, a message notification system. I definitely see
the advantage. I set it to use the speech style, and customized my speech
preferences. I installed Growlmail. It reads the alerts, but one problem: it
reads them all at once! I heard like ten message alerts all read
Hello. I have had quite a last few months. Apples everywhere! First, I got an
iPhone in June. I wrote an article about it, which went viral:
http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/
Since then I've appeared in such publications as the Atlantic and on CBC's
weekly
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