Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.x SMB/AFP Share Issues

2019-07-24 Thread James Rothschild
Has anyone found a way to make File Sharing stable in OSX Mojave 10.14.3 -> 10.14.5 ? There is a massive TOPIC here that echoes all the problems ... but essentially it seems SMB is broken and unreliable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8616638 -- The following information is important for

Re: Help copying and pasteing files?

2018-11-14 Thread James AUSTIN
desired view set press Control + J. Here you can set Finder's default viewing options. HTH Best wishes James > On 14 Nov 2018, at 15:56, Matt Turner wrote: > > Hi folks. > I’m trying to move a folder from the desktop, to and external USB drive. > When I paste the folder

Re: PDF files with annotations & Voiceover

2018-08-30 Thread James AUSTIN
comments refer. Can your tutor not send you the original file? Sorry not to be of more help. Best wishes James > On 18 Aug 2018, at 21:17, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a bit of an SOS message. I’ve just received a pdf fil

Moving to the top of the message list in mail

2018-08-30 Thread james . londonsw15
Hi folks Can anyone tell me please how to move to the top of the list in Mail please? I cannot find a VO command for this. Thanks James Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Going Insane Looking for USB Devices on My MacBook Air

2018-05-28 Thread james . londonsw15
You could also try force quitting finder Best wishes James Sent from my iPhone > On 28 May 2018, at 15:55, E.T. wrote: > > You are not seeing any devices connected to the USB port in the sidebar > under the Devices heading? Have you done a reboot since this started? I've

Resizing screenshots

2018-05-01 Thread James AUSTIN
Hi folks I have taken some screenshots for a guide i am putting together. Does anyone know how to ensure my screenshots are the appropriate size for the HTML page please? is it possible to resize images without being able to see? Thanks Best James -- The following information is important

Re: alias

2018-04-29 Thread james . londonsw15
Hi Andrew Quite right thanks for the correction Best James Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Apr 2018, at 12:53, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > Hi James, > > Just one minor correction: to open preferences the key combination is command > + comma. > > Andrew >> On Ap

Re: alias

2018-04-29 Thread James AUSTIN
em Preferences). 3. Navigate to the 'General' tab within the toolbar 4 Under 'Show these items on the Desktop', check the box that says 'Hard Disks'. HTH Best wishes James > On 29 Apr 2018, at 03:19, wayne coles wrote: > > hello all sorry for all

Re: Word Processing on the mac

2018-04-07 Thread james . londonsw15
e a powerful tool to me, and many > things use it. Moodle, Emacs, and even the Braille Note Touch can use it for > document production. > >> On Apr 6, 2018, at 10:21 AM, James wrote: >> >> There is also: >> >> https://cs.sharelatex.com/learn >> >

Re: Word Processing on the mac

2018-04-06 Thread James
you also considered Markdown or one of its variations? Best wishes James On 06/04/2018 13:15, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries wrote: On Apr 5, 2018, at 11:35, Devin Prater wrote: What is a good way to learn LaTex? Thanks There are various books and tutorials available. A goo

Voice Over announcing incorrect position of CSS elements

2018-03-06 Thread James AUSTIN
navigation menu, VO initially announces it before the link is read, but reverts to expected behaviour within the navigation menu thereafter. Has anyone encountered this and if so, discovered a work around please? I am running macOS High Sierra with all latest updates Thanks Best wishes Jame

Re: Are people successfully using VIM with VO or TDSR?

2018-02-22 Thread James AUSTIN
Oh and to answer your final question, it as more of a query as i would really like to use VIM for writing as I find that I am spending more and more time in the Terminal across all three OS's. Best wishes James > On 21 Feb 2018, at 15:30, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I have used v

Re: Are people successfully using VIM with VO or TDSR?

2018-02-22 Thread James AUSTIN
found at: https://www.applevis.com/blog/assistive-technology-macos-news/announcing-tdsr-command-line-screen-reader-macintosh-and <https://www.applevis.com/blog/assistive-technology-macos-news/announcing-tdsr-command-line-screen-reader-macintosh-and> Best wishes James > On 21 Feb 2018, at 15

Are people successfully using VIM with VO or TDSR?

2018-02-21 Thread James AUSTIN
Hi folks, Is anyone successfully using VIM with either VO or TDSR please? If so, could they please provide some instructions as my setup is failing miserably. Thanks My best wishes James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Copying some text from an iBook does not seem to be possible

2018-02-18 Thread james . londonsw15
Hi Marie Once I interact with the page I am able to use normal text selection methods option shift left and right arrow et cetera to select words or command shift left and right to select lines. I have never had an issue copying text. In fact this is one of the features that I really like in iB

OCR on Mac

2018-01-30 Thread James AUSTIN
appreciated. i have searched on the Appstore and I was pleased to see over 150 results. As I say, any advice would be very welcome. Thank you My best wishes James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Bilingual dictionaries

2018-01-26 Thread James
all of these from UltraLingua. Thank you Best wishes James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contac

French, Italian and Latin dictioanries

2018-01-26 Thread James
? Thank you Best wishes James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly r

Re: Text rangler & Voice Over

2018-01-05 Thread James AUSTIN
Thanks Jonathan Sorry to hear that, but no matter. I shall use TextMate. Take care James > On 5 Jan 2018, at 20:36, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > Well, I contacted the vendor and found out two things: > > 1. TextWrangler has been replaced with the free version of BBEdit. >

Text rangler & Voice Over

2018-01-05 Thread James AUSTIN
Hi everyone Has anyone had any luck using the main edit window in Text Wrangler please? I am so far able to navigate every aspect of the app, except for this one crucial window. Thank you Take care James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

GPS on iOS

2018-01-05 Thread James Austin
Hi folks, Can anyone recommend any GPS apps please? I am particularly looking for something that allows me to roam freely, tells me when I am approaching an intersection/street, and if possible, the shape of the road. Thank you Take care James -- The following information is important for

Re: Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-13 Thread James AUSTIN
Hi Anne Nice to speak with you again. Thank you for your suggestions. Admittedly the second one never occurred to me. :) Thanks James PS - Feel free to write me of-list. It would be lovely to catch up if you'd like to. > On 13 Nov 2017, at 06:42, Anne Robertson wrote: > &g

Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-12 Thread James AUSTIN
loaded from academic repositories. While the PDFs are far from unreadable, it is inconvenient. I suspect that this is not possible without using OCR, but thought i would ask. Thanks Take care James -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any q

Voiceover Won't Speak while Fresh Installing Sierra

2016-09-21 Thread James Lee
I created a bootable usb drive, and tried to fresh install Sierra on Macbook Pro 2015. However, the Voiceover wouldn't speak except Voiceover off, and installer launching in the background. I had to get a sited person to help to install. The person described that the voiceover cursor is there, b

Re: Voiceover Crashing My Mac

2016-06-27 Thread James Lee
isionaries@googlegroups.com>> on behalf of James Lee mailto:jameslee...@gmail.com>> *Reply-To:*<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> *Date:*Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 10:14 PM *To:*<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> *Subject:*Re: Voiceover Crashing My

Re: Voiceover Crashing My Mac

2016-06-25 Thread James Lee
----- *From:* James Lee <mailto:jameslee...@gmail.com> *To:* MacVisionaries <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Saturday, June 25, 2016 9:31 PM *Subject:* Voiceover Crashing My Mac Hi I run OSX 10.115 on iMac 5k 27 inch late 2015. I'm ha

Voiceover Crashing My Mac

2016-06-25 Thread James Lee
Hi I run OSX 10.115 on iMac 5k 27 inch late 2015. I'm having a problem Voiceover crashing my computer. I use just Alex voice. Screen just goes black and reboots. If someone does the exactly same task without Voiceover, it doesn't happen. For example, adding input files in xcode project > build p

XCode Busy

2015-05-21 Thread James Lee
Hi, I'm trying to give XCode a try again. I didn't have this problem when I used it with Mountain Lion a couple of years ago. However, Voiceover gets stuck and keeps saying busy. Only way is to quit XCode and rerun. It happens so frequently that it makes it impossible to navigate to different

Re: ScanSnap, Scanning Solution?

2014-11-27 Thread James Lee
t does work, you could convert to an image format like jpg or bmp. > That > might give better OCR results. I heard they are the fastest scanners out > next to actually doing the KNFB thing. > > - Original Message - > From: "James Lee" > > To: > &g

ScanSnap, Scanning Solution?

2014-11-26 Thread James Lee
Hi All, Does anyone use ScanSnap? I'm thinking about iX500. How is their software accessible on Mac or Windows? Because they don't support twain, most OCR software like abbyy, kurzwhile, or Openbook can't access the scanner directly. It looks like I have to scan using their software, export into

Re: showing downloads

2014-03-02 Thread James Yam
report if that solves your problem. Thanks, James Yam On Mar 2, 2014, at 5:50 AM, May wrote: > I use to have that option. I know longer see that option no matter what I try. > > Like I said, I have no idea when this changed since I use to be able too. > > On Mar 2, 2014, at 5:3

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-30 Thread James Lee
-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-09-24, at 1:55 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello James, If you can take the books apart, you'd be fastest with the kind of scanner that will scan both sides of a sheet and also has an automatic feed. The application VueScan can pr

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-26 Thread James Lee
Thanks Anne for explaining the process. I'll let you know if I go into Vuescan+Abby route. JL On 9/25/2013 5:25 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello James, I use a flatbed scanner and scan a double page at a time. I use VueScan to capture the images and ABBYY FineReader Express to do th

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-25 Thread James Lee
24/2013 1:55 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello James, If you can take the books apart, you'd be fastest with the kind of scanner that will scan both sides of a sheet and also has an automatic feed. The application VueScan can probably handle one of these and it produces very good images. However,

Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-09-24 Thread James Lee
Hi All, I'm wondering what would be the fastest way for a college student to scan books with accurate OCR? I know there are cameras out there for scanning documents like hover cam and pearl, but I haven't actually used them. I could be wrong, but pearl is only works with Open Book, right? Can

Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important privacy issue with VoiceOver on iPhone

2013-03-04 Thread James Mannion
t; >> Did you see the issue where an incoming call triggers VO to speak through >> the speakerphone even with a headset connected? >> >> The fact is that I am not asking for an improvement here, but something >> that >> should have been there at the firs

Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important privacy issue with VoiceOver on iPhone

2013-03-04 Thread James Mannion
I agree and although I don't think there is generally anything wrong with possible customizing options and settings, I think it is a bit much to put this forth as some huge issue of any sort. There are absolutely options to us the controls available to eliminate this speaking if it is such a concer

Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important privacy issue with VoiceOver on iPhone

2013-03-03 Thread James Mannion
r when the I phone headset was plugged in. However, >>> I'd like the choice of having the announcement muted especially if you >>> were in an important meeting as others have stated. >>> >>> Kawal. >>> On 3 Mar 2013, at 23:41, James Mannion wrote: &g

Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important privacy issue with VoiceOver on iPhone

2013-03-03 Thread James Mannion
Personal preferences it sounds like. Some of us wouldn't find it a big deal to mute VO when locking the phone in a situation where it could ring where we were so concerned about someone knowing who is calling. As was mentioned, I don't think many of us really share this concern. Personally I don't

Re: Automatic caller ID announcement, an important privacy issue with VoiceOver on iPhone

2013-03-03 Thread James Mannion
Maybe try turning down the volume when not in use so it will not announce it to any extent that anyone would be able to hear it that you don't want to hear it? Maybe do the 3 finger double tap to mute speech when not in use and then just quickly unmute it with the same command when you want to hear

Re: OT: Change.Org Petition Samsung Attack On Vlind

2013-02-26 Thread James Mannion
ould be solved as well. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> perhaps apple should break loose of some of their huge sums of spare cash >> and simply buy out Samsung completely (its called a hostile takeover). >> that would

Re: OT: Change.Org Petition Samsung Attack On Vlind

2013-02-24 Thread James Mannion
of its retaliatory actions against Apple." On 2/24/13, James Mannion wrote: > So incredibly ridiculous too. Block the sale of a product under the > excuse that a comman is entered in the same way and then add to it the > fact that it does not even control something that is equal

Re: OT: Change.Org Petition Samsung Attack On Vlind

2013-02-24 Thread James Mannion
s now one of Hannah's toys, and she loves to pretend > to call her Granddad, and check her messages lol. > On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:47 PM, James Mannion wrote: > >> I agree that I will not ever support Samsung either because of this. >> Nice how they do not really do anything

Re: OT: Change.Org Petition Samsung Attack On Vlind

2013-02-24 Thread James Mannion
I agree that I will not ever support Samsung either because of this. Nice how they do not really do anything that indicates any real interest in helping us to better use their products, but they are willing to cash us in as a sacrifice to attack the competition. This childish corrupt law suit stuff

Re: OT: iOS 6 Disappointment!

2013-02-24 Thread James Mannion
gt; Apple's mistakes but at the same time, I think they still have quality > products and accessibility is still good and I feel that it has not slipped > or gone backwards. > > On Feb 17, 2013, at 8:51 PM, James Mannion wrote: > >> I agree that it is in large part perceptio

Re: Navigating through long message threads in WhatsApp

2013-02-18 Thread James Mannion
Right and would be handy accept for how likely is one to know a word or specific time stamp of a message they have not yet read? On 2/18/13, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I was just about to suggest the same. haha. I would also like to suggest > using the item chooser. For example, if you kno

Re: OT: iOS 6 Disappointment!

2013-02-17 Thread James Mannion
I agree that it is in large part perception and what one is telling themselves. It is easy if one is not careful to overstate the problems as to how they shape the entire picture and to overstate how great things were in the past (grass is always greener). It is easy to take the problems and create

Re: trying to get push notifications to work with the FB app

2013-01-24 Thread James Mannion
Sometimes the trick is that after you have adjusted the push settings for an app, even if you turn them off and on again for that app, then put the phone in airplain mode for at least 30 seconds then turn off airplane mode. In theory rebooting would have to be doing the same thing, but maybe not. T

Re: Has anyone with an IPhone 5 also had this issue?

2013-01-04 Thread James Mannion
In the case where voiceover remains at the louder distorted volume after a call is ended, I have had this happen a few times over the past few months. I think something just fails to initialize back to where it is suppose to be after the call in those cases. If you are able to make another call to

Re: couple apple TV questions?

2012-12-16 Thread James Mannion
I am considering getting one of these. Do you have to have a screen connected to it at any point to do the setup? I don't think so, but wanted to be sure. I do not have anything compatible that I could hook it up to for video. I would only be hooking it up to audio for now. I think I have heard tha

Re: Contacting the Netflix team regarding accessibility, I am so excited

2012-12-15 Thread Neil James
Just to offer another option, one does not have to purchase a new TV to be able to use the Apple TV. One can simply purchase an HDMI to standard video convertor. It is a small box which contains an HDMI input and RCA type output jacks and last I checked, sold for somewhere in the $60 range. Cer

Re: vo randomly restarts in safari

2012-11-26 Thread James Mannion
tion, but how many use cases and scenarios are > there to implement for handling all the incorrect HTML? An infinite > number of monkeys and typewriters might be able to do that but most > companies have finite budgets, even Apple. > > CB > > On 11/24/12 2:57 PM, James Mannion wrote:

Re: vo randomly restarts in safari

2012-11-24 Thread James Mannion
I would say if the screen reader can "fix" bad code and make it work the way it should have, please do it! There are more than plenty of instances where you will never get the developer to fix it or even begin to care. If you do then there are advantages to that, but who knows how many weeks, month

Re: ipad mini question:

2012-11-23 Thread James Mannion
Well I guess if she is going to follow the suggestion of changing the language via te IPad mini, she is going to have to either be able to understand Spanish or have sighted assistance. I think that was the reason for the question of how to do it from the mac. Because the mac is presumably still sp

Re: icloud and iphone5

2012-11-10 Thread James Mannion
The backup on your computer should preserve the data and kind of what you might think of as the shell of how your apps were configured on your screens and or in folders and such. The apps will be put back on from the synchrnize process and what came from the backup should preserve and restore the d

Re: iPad App Store losing sales, alienating

2012-11-07 Thread James Mannion
I'm not sure what is being complained abouthere. The "tiny" area on the screen to flick up or down is no problem to find if one is willing t think for one minute or at least take some advice if not of how to get to it. Tough the bottom left icon, the bottom left tab on the screen and do one flick l

Re: my thanks for the suggestions about the fan issue

2012-10-15 Thread James Mannion
What was the resolution? Did they replace it? On 10/15/12, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Hi all. > Just got back from best buy. > Macbook air works great now. > As quiet as can be, I'm very impressed with the machine. > Thanks for your suggestions. > > -- > You received this message because you are

Re: iOS6 alarm sounds very quiet

2012-10-15 Thread James Mannion
Maybe just to eliminate a possibility, set an alarm or a timer and then turn voiceover off with the tripple click home if you have that set before the alarm sounds and see if it sounds normally? If it does, the resulting work around might be to turn voiceover off before you go to sleep and then tur

Re: iPhone5 Speaker Blaring Out Quickly

2012-10-04 Thread James Mannion
I think it is because speaker phone needs to have voiceover speaking more loudly through it than when not on a call, the opposite of people having concerns about it not speaking loud enough. I think it can just be a matter that it, in some cases, might not be perfectly on time in adjusting back. I

Re: iPhone news

2012-09-09 Thread James Malone
Ah. R.I.P to the 3GS. I'm still not entirely sure why they're even supporting iOS 6, but there you have it. Certainly an interesting read. On 9/10/12, Chris wrote: > Apple to retire iPhone 3GS with low-end 8GB iPhone 4S debuting at next > week’s iPhone 5 event > By Raymond Wong | BGR News – Thu,

Re: Caps Lock to VO keys and more

2012-09-06 Thread James Lee
Yes, I agree! The developer is awesome, and he's very quick! While back, I asked him to implement function+space as left mouse click because I would need control mouse click or option mouse click. You can't do it with voiceover because VO steals control and option key when it simulates mouse cl

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-18 Thread James Mannion
don't u have to use the roder feature to paste in the text? > On 8/18/2012 9:36 PM, James Mannion wrote: >> I completely agree. This app is fantastic for being able to type in to >> the IPhone. I truely don't think the people that see the copy and >> paste into somethin

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-18 Thread James Mannion
I completely agree. This app is fantastic for being able to type in to the IPhone. I truely don't think the people that see the copy and paste into something as a deal breaker truely have not given it a chance. It really does not take more than a few seconds to do that. It takes longer to complain

Re: anyone ever used winonx?

2012-07-31 Thread James Malone
I'm certainly thinking of trying this. I don't think programs like that have really been too successful, but for 5 dollars? Well... maybe. On 8/1/12, Alex Hall wrote: > Thanks, I might have a look at virtualbox, I didn't know it was free. The > advantage to winonx is that you don't need windows,

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

2012-07-30 Thread James Mannion
And when the accessible web browsing experience on the mac at least matches windows, I'll buy it. busy busy busy, can't handel large amounts of text, ignores this and that on the page, the entire web thing was why I gave up on the mac thing and sold my mac mini. To do the web on the mac you have to

Re: A question about iTunes syncing

2012-07-28 Thread James Malone
pe I just didn't > confuse the heck out of you. :) > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:47 AM, James Malone wrote: > >> Hi there folks. I am about to download and install ML her

A question about iTunes syncing

2012-07-27 Thread James Malone
Hi there folks. I am about to download and install ML here on my macbook, but I had a question. If an iTunes library gets erased, but you still have all the stuff on your iPod, is it possible to make it so that the stuff goes from your iPod to the iTunes library instead of the other way round? Sure

Re: Trouble with dictation

2012-06-24 Thread James Mannion
Cool. If there is anything else you can ever also tell us, I look forward to reading those messages as much as this one. On 6/24/12, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Gigi, > > I can't really say much about if this happens now, seeing I'm a dev on I O S > 6, so thus am on N D A, but I can! legall

Re: How to read Kindle Books in iBooks

2012-06-16 Thread James Scholes
eed to find alternative scripts or tools to manage that. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscri

Re: Updating firmware on a Bose Sound Link.

2012-06-09 Thread James Mannion
Last I heard on this from a post some time ago it the updater, at least on the Windows side, is java based and someone had success although still had to randomly press things at times and hope for the best with java access bridge. It sounds like at best it is not an accessible ride! On 6/9/12, Sar

Re: How to make a word a URL

2012-06-08 Thread James Scholes
When creating HTML links, you need to include the protocol URI as well as the address itself. In other words, put http:// before your links, and they will work fine. Otherwise, they're seen as links relative to the current page. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You rec

Re: How to make a word a URL

2012-06-08 Thread James Scholes
Could you supply the code you're using to create the links? It's a bit difficult to help you without it. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Accordance Voiceover

2012-05-17 Thread James Mannion
Does this developer understand what it means to be voiceover compatible? I ask because it sounds like she might mean what we mean or she might be referring to the app being self voicing. Her wording leaves me wondering a little. On 5/17/12, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > If anyone is interested

Re: The accessibility of Zello?

2012-05-15 Thread James Mannion
I believe there was a considerable amount of talk on it or should I say about it on applevis.com. I know many people use it on the IPhone. On 5/15/12, Krysti .Power wrote: > What is zello if you don't mine me asking > On 2012-05-15 5:06 PM, "Mike Busboom" wrote: > >> Hello to all of you, >> >> H

Re: Setting Sound Output for Log in Screen

2012-04-24 Thread James Lee
alker wrote: Hi, in my experience, you can't. Lion will default to the last output you had set for system audio before restarting. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:10 PM, James Lee wrote: Hi, How can I set so

Setting Sound Output for Log in Screen

2012-04-24 Thread James Lee
Hi, How can I set sound output for internal speaker during log in screen? I have more than one output device, internal speaker, sound flower, and external sound card. Sometimes, VoiceOver switches to a different sound output during log in screen. I can't hear anything especially when it switch

Re: Braille displays

2012-04-04 Thread James Mannion
me about this, but I don't think it's as many >>>>>> as VoiceOver. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Gigi >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Eugenia Firth >

Re: A Question Regarding OCR

2012-04-02 Thread James Mannion
Hi Mark, I envy you acquiring the braille display especially. I really wish I were incorrect, but I know I am not missing anything or out of date in my understanding that the price of braille displays are just rediculously out of sight in price about 3 to 4 times over and then some. Still being a c

Re: Help with navigon

2012-03-25 Thread James Mannion
It sounds like maybe you don't have it set for voice guidance? I don't know. I haven't really used it since the version 2 mess. I hear it is mostly back and a respectable solution again. I downloaded the most recent update, but haven't used it. On 3/24/12, Jenny Keller wrote: > I tried to use nav

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-24 Thread James Mannion
Which is why this stupid nonsense will probably rob us of access in the name of their closed minded greed until the old members of the gild all die and we get minds in there with open minds to a moddern world perspective. The good part is there excessive greed will put them under extra stress which

Re: Starting the phone app automatically after unlocking the phone after upgrading to iOS 5.1

2012-03-20 Thread James Mannion
One way to avoid it if it really bothers you is to slide to unlock instead of double tapping to unlock. On 3/20/12, Lewis Alexander wrote: > this is not a deliberate action. this is a software flaw and confirmed. what > is actually happening is a "considered tap" so that as soon as you unlock, >

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-27 Thread James Mannion
Although there is no harm in wanting something to be completely optional and available for someone to use, I am definitely not sold on it until it is out and proven that it really is at all something I like using. I don't think it makes a lot of sense either to be making a push for something to be

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread James Mannion
I see your point about hoping to incorporate it as a keyboard option similar to a language keyboard. Braille is kind of a "language". I agree that making it an additional option and not taking anything away is an extremely important point to stress. Is the stand alone app available in the US yet? I

Re: a probably silly question about the IPhone

2012-02-15 Thread James Scholes
The first letter of a sentence, or the first letter you type in a text field, is usually always capitalised. Thus, type your first letter, then activate shift lock. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: a probably silly question about the IPhone

2012-02-15 Thread James Scholes
Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi, I couldn't get this to work. Tried to do as you suggested for shift lock, > and it just goes shift, and selected shift. Did you actually try typing after tripple-tapping Shift? Because that is exactly what VO is supposed to say. -- James Scholes http://

Re: Missing blindcooltech, recommendations?

2012-01-29 Thread James Mannion
I wonder where that announcement was or is and it would really be nice if it appeared in a logical place, like as a post on the site. It's quite unfortunate if it is no longer going to be supported, and I realize noone has any obligation to do anything with it, but it really would be nice if someth

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
ot; from the File menu. 6. Choose "mbox files" from the "Import data from:" list, then click Continue. 7. Locate the files you copied to your Mac in step 4. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
devices, none of them would be in sync with each other. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To

Re: siri proxy server

2012-01-01 Thread James Scholes
cess by any stretch of the immagination. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscrib

Re: siri proxy server

2011-12-31 Thread James Scholes
on is really only suited to people who are familiar with Linux, software such as DNSMasq, etc., and if you do manage to get it working, you'll need to know how to program in Ruby in order to develop your own plug-ins. Hope that helps. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- Yo

Re: New I-phone owner needs some startup help please?

2011-12-24 Thread James Scholes
hen flick up or down to change it. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gr

Re: iPhone and Mac question

2011-12-24 Thread James Scholes
Edit > Preferences > Advanced and check the two boxes labelled "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" and "Copy Files To iTunes Media Folder When Adding To Library." Then, open File > > Library > Organize Library, check the "Consolidate Files" option

Re: speaker on iPhone

2011-12-19 Thread James Mannion
I have never heard of or experienced this change. Taking it away from my ear has been the way to put it in speaker mode, even after SIRI arrived. Apple care doesn't even know how speaker phone works? Sometimes I really truely just don't get it. Their in store people know nothing half the time, thei

Selecting Destination For restoring on Disk Utility

2011-11-18 Thread James Lee
Hi, I'm trying to restore a partition from a CCC image using disk utility. When I go to the restore tab, I can click the image button and select the image file created by CCC, but I cannot drag the partition to a destination field. I wiped out my entire internal hard drive in order to partitio

Re: Sprint iPhone and siri

2011-11-17 Thread James Mannion
eadphones? > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:41 PM, James Mannion wrote: > >> I have had the problem with the screen going quiet while in a call for >> quite some time. See

Re: Sprint iPhone and siri

2011-11-17 Thread James Mannion
I have had the problem with the screen going quiet while in a call for quite some time. Seems to just take some time or touching around and swiping or locking and unlocking again to get it back. I think it comes back after some time and not sure if any of the fiddling around has any impact or not.

Re: iPhone update

2011-11-12 Thread James Mannion
I did an update directly to the phone with an IPhone 4 and a 4s and they both went fine with voiceover on. I suspect in your case it was an error just like what has and will likely still happen in some cases when doing it on ITunes. Likely what this tells us is that the over the air update process

List for Accessible Audio Apps

2011-11-08 Thread James Lee
Hi, I think a while ago someone mentioned that there's a list for discussing accessible audio apps on Mac. Does anyone know such list exists? Thanks, JL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to m

Re: Drop ship! was Re: any alternatives to Drop box yet?

2011-11-08 Thread James Scholes
s the use of a file server, and one with no enforced storage or bandwidth limits at that. PublicFTP tried to offer something similar a couple of years back, and instantly realised it was an unrealistic goal. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes -- You received this message becaus

Re: Editing MIDI Events In Garage Band

2011-10-21 Thread James Lee
As far as I know, the score part of editor group window is inaccessible. It will just say scroll area. JL On 10/21/2011 4:16 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: HI, Thought, don't know if it is possible. What about using apple script to make the changes you want? Requires programming knowledge. Sean -

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