Re: Boot Camp, talking installer.

2015-12-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul, That’s a problem. It’s quite a story, but I’ll tell you all I know. I have bootcamp installed and it went successfully on my mac mini late 2012. However, on a macbook air from a friend from 2013, it did not work at all. Yes you can boot Bryan’s DVD and you will get to a windows

braille input IOS, question

2015-10-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi active iphone braillers, Does the iphone support contracted braille in other languages than English? I’m Dutch and I still remember grade 2 Dutch braille from elementary school, but its vocabulary has some inconsistencies and I don’t know if it was ever standardized to fit our modern age.

baby monitor 3g?

2015-10-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Has any of you ever used the baby monitor 3g app? It’s something you install on the iphone that’s always with you, and another app on a device near your baby or dog at home. Then, from anywhere, you can listen in, to the sound in your home. I think it can also give you a notification on

Re: amadeus pro recording and punch-in?

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Erkens
, you really should get Jonathan motions audio tutorial on Amadeus. It really helped me understand how to use this program. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear amadeus pro-familiar users, Project I’m working on is a short

amadeus pro recording and punch-in?

2015-08-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear amadeus pro-familiar users, Project I’m working on is a short audio book, being read by a family member. The problem I’m facing is this. When the reader makes a mistake, I have to stop recording, then rewind a little bit, start playback so the reader can chime in at the right moment, and

Re: word count in text edit

2015-08-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jim and others, What a wonderful tip that is. I have been running into mac versus unix files since I’m using mac and windows side by side. Word count, sort lines, convert from mac to windows formatting etc, wow. Thanks a lot. And for those interested: yes, it’s in the mac app store. Still

productive calender app on mac or ios?

2015-07-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, When I need to make an appointment at work, I don’t have much time. Probably 5 seconds to say yes or no to someone’s request if they can come back then or then, and another few seconds to plan the appointment before life goes on. I used to have a note taker that did the job, but its

Re: garage band

2015-07-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Johny boy, I think more than a few folks here are interested to know how to edit using garage band. It would be awesome if you could write down the tips and tricks you mentioned, or indeed you wouldn’t mind creating a podcast on it. That would be interesting and very helpful. Hope you will

Re: ftp client for the mac

2015-07-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Caitlyn, Just to add to this: if you need the ftp protocol onlyt to download stuff from elsewhere, then finder can do the job as well, and then you won’t need a dedicated ftp client. Just hit command plus k when you are in finder. This opens a dialog where you enter a url. This url can also

Re: Crashplan Accessibility

2015-06-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, I’m using CrashPlan and all I can say is that I’m satisfied. It’s true that the settings button is inaccessible, but I had a phone call with one of their support people and they set it up remotely. At least, they helped me get into my settings. If you are just beginning to use CrashPlan

help with dropbox web interface and deleted file recovery

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I have a shared dropbox folder with a friend. He accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff that was only present in our shared folder, and I, rather we, would like to get it back. From the dropbox web interface, we can recover those files, but here’s a question. I do see all the files

Re: alva bc640 ot question

2015-03-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, I have one too. It charges via USB as well. Hth. Paul. On 27 Mar 2015, at 02:04, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a stupid off topic question. Does anyone have an optelec alva bc640 braille display? I seem to have lost my power adapter, and want to

Re: the Burn app

2015-03-02 Thread Paul Erkens
The burn app burns either an audio or a data CD. Problem with audio CD’s I found, is that it creates clicks between tracks when you play back the CD on a normal CD player. This happens if thelength of the input wave files is not a multiple of the CD sector size. So in short, it burns. You can

Re: GarageBand

2014-12-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Scott, Reading the garageband messages with great interest, I was just thinking about possibilities to extend my knowledge, so yes, I’d like to participate in a voice chat, if possible. I am in gmt plus 1. Kind Regards, Paul. On 24 Dec 2014, at 02:54, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Boom was Equalizer for the mac.

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Erkens
To add to this: if you use VLC regularly, it has its own equalizer built-in. It's pretty good. Paul. On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Thanks Matt. Will take a look at it. /A 6 okt 2014 kl. 18:36 skrev Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com:

Re: Keyboard focus in Amadeus Pro

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Agent 6b, I learned the solution from a podcast by Eric Caron, long ago. If the scroll area in Amadeus pro looses focus, which becomes apparent when you notice that the arrow keys left and right no longer rewind and skip, then do the following: 1. Stop interacting as far as you can, until

iphone tip: accessing home network files

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, Thought I'd share this with the listers, as it is a very handy app, giving a solution to a problem many of us like to do from time to time. Often, you may want to access audio files using your phone, stored on a computer in my home. As long as you are inside the house, i.e. on your own

how can I best set up a server?

2014-09-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have a great number of Dutch radio plays, that I collected over the last 25 years, that I'd like to share over the internet with a small group of very interested people. I once had an ftp server under windows, but that software is hopelessly outdated now, and I'd like not to

Re: how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Erkens
wireless access details. Either open up your wireless or use a ethernet cable to link the Pro to the router. http://www.macworld.com/article/2056543/installing-mavericks-our-complete-guide.html Good luck. Gena On 16 Aug 2014, at 20:06, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote

facetime on mavericks setup question

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Is facetime for Mavericks on the mac an app that we have to buy these days? It used to be free. Here's what happens on my machine. I am running the latest version of mavericks. I open facetime, and it gives me a button to turn facetime on, so I clicked that. Next, I was asked for

Re: Dropbox on the Mac

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Pamela, Dropbox won't show you anything useful when you launch the app from your applications folder, as someone else already wrote. A way to determine if dropbox is currently running, is to check your finder status menu, using VO plus m, as in mike, twice in succession as you hold the VO

how to create a Mavericks installer USB drive using a mountain lion machine?

2014-08-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already. This

VoiceOver into the meet of the matter

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, After listening to the tech doctor podcast, hi Robert, Excellent job, I now have a very useful ibook on my phone, of which I wanted to make you aware. To begin with: it is free. A sighted guy, named Tim Sniffen if I remember correctly, did a book on mastering the mac. His audience

Re: VoiceOver into the meet of the matter

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Erkens
are interested in using mac as a unique tool. I use it for productivity at all times and I love it. For me, it gives me a much profesional outcome than the results I got with Windows. Interesting finding! Thanks! Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 08/08/2014, a las 09:19, Paul

fision audio editor question

2014-07-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Fision is an audio editor that lets you split m4a files losslessly, among many other things. Rather than reading and decoding an m4a, editing it, and then re-encoding it with the usual loss of audio quality, this editor leaves the audio compressed and intact. It just arranges the

Re: reinstalling mac OS10

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Erkens
with mountain lion. On Jul 25, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi listers, I still run mountain lion. When I try to reinstall clean, it wants to give me Mavericks. Is there a way still, to do a clean install of mountain lion? Here's what I did: Reboot the mac. After

Re: using batch processing in Amadeus Pro

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jenine, I've had difficulties myself as well, and I found out how to get things going. To batch process files in amadeus pro, do the following. First, fire up amadeus and to begin with, hit command shift n to open the batch processor. The layout of the window is actually simple, once you

reinstalling mac OS10

2014-07-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, I still run mountain lion. When I try to reinstall clean, it wants to give me Mavericks. Is there a way still, to do a clean install of mountain lion? Here's what I did: Reboot the mac. After the sound, I hold command r to boot from the recovery partition. Then, I use disk utility

Re: mvware fusion questions

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Maria and Joe, Did you create any snapshots with fusion? A snapshot is a certain moment in time that you captured, when windows was still just fine. Every week, I create a snapshot in fusion, as long as windows is healthy. This way, if something like this does happen, then you can always go

Re: Good iPhone app for recording audio snippets

2014-06-28 Thread Paul Erkens
in advance for your input, Mike On 22,Jun,2014, at 17:31, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If looping audio is not your priority, and you are just looking for a good recorder for your iphone that lets you organize your recordings into nice folders, and which is also

Re: Good iPhone app for recording audio snippets

2014-06-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, If looping audio is not your priority, and you are just looking for a good recorder for your iphone that lets you organize your recordings into nice folders, and which is also completely VoiceOver accessible, then you could take a look at list recorder. I'm using it all day. To rehurse my

Re: Amadeus Pro file joining question

2014-06-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi amadeus users, Joining files is easy. Here's how I do it: 1. Open amadeus, the sound menu and then join files. This dialog has a listbox and 2 buttons. To begin with, of course all files you are going to join, must be in the same audio format. 2. Hit the add button. If it's not labeled,

Re: Accessible Open VPN

2014-06-07 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Yes I tried 2 solutions, both of which do work. I'll add some explanations for those who are curious what vpn can do for you. But in short, these are usable for us: www.proxpn.com, iphone as well as mac, and: www.getcloak.com . So what does vpn do for us, normal iphone users? An example.

editing a pdf

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, I've heard that pdf pen is supposed to let you edit a pdf. Does anyone here have experience with editing pdf files? Regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Ftp server using the server app

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Chris B, I've been investigating sftp a while ago, but I gave up because I did not find it to work properly for me. In my case, any user was able to do a cd .. and get into folders all over my system. Is the sftp daemon in osx to be taken seriously? Can I use it to do a functional server

1password

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm running into some interface issues with the new version of 1password. How can I create a new password in 1password version 4? Here's what I'm trying to do. I open 1password, and just as in version 3, I can go to the sidebar, interact, and find the passwords item there. Once

Re: help with voices and dates

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Erkens
So just out of curiosity, what does the Australian date format look like? Americans use month month dash day day dash year year, as far as I'm aware. In our country, which is the Netherlands in Europe, we use day day slash month month slash year year. Because my computer is always set to

Re: Time Machine Backup failed

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, I had this happen to me a few months ago, before Mavericks came out. It appeared that my computer got renamed. Just once, I saw a dialog, saying that my computer name, mac mini, was already on the network. That message was in error, because all I did was reboot my mini, and when it came on

blind developer: programming on the mac

2013-11-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Listers, Until 20 Years back, I used to be a visual basic for DOS programmer. I've been out of business because of medical issues since 1993. I would love to get back into coding, but so far, I have not been able to find an accessible programming environment on the mac. I used to code in an

Re: serena

2013-11-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Over here in the Netherlands, Serena is in the vo utility as well. Paul. On Nov 2, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: That’s odd. When you go to VO utility, speech, customize voices, in the search field type english. Serena should be in those results. I had her in

Re: getting mac to see other pc's on my home network

2013-11-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Don, One way to browse your lan with a mac, is to hit command k from finder, which brings up a connect to server dialog. You will land inside an edit field, where you can type your destination and protocol directly, but there's also a browse button. If your windows pc's don't show up right

bootcamp without sight on a macbook air

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Erkens
, where we learned that the USB flash drive should be put into the left USB connector on the macbook air. Interesting, but if they say that'll work, okay we did that. But to no avail. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot for writing, Paul. On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Paul

Re: Screen reader in Virtual machine

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Geoff, I can't help you with the keys, but here are a few things you might want to consider. 1. If you want to go with bootcamp, you can call Microsoft to have them transfer your windows license over from your vm to the bootcamp installation. That could solve one of your problemsw. 2. Once

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-10 Thread Paul Erkens
Hello Georges, Your answers have been most helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in the gaps. I've been busy installing bootcamp windows, and it's all set now. The win PE package is just awesome. I now have windows 64-bit installed, home premium, while I never thought this was

bootcamp and windows without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Installing windows without sighted help on a mac is easy as 1 2 3 if you use fusion, but what a job it is, without sighted help for bootcamp. If you have experience with this, then I hope you can help. There are a number of podcasts and guides on installing windows into a

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, To add to this: Bryan's medadisk doesn't talk on my mac. I just burned Bryan's talking windows pre-installation environment, which is what it's called, on to a dvd, and I booted it. Of course, mac hardware is not pc hardware, and although Bryan did include a vast number of audio

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Georges, This looks like a very to the point answer. Thank you so much for pointing this out. There are 2 little things that I don't understand yet. Would you please clarify the following: 1. How can I exit NVDA? I don't yet know where windows maps its insert key in bootcamp. On a US

subscribing to the list

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, We've been searching the web some time now. How can I get a friend to join this list? Kind regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Massimo Vettoretti, I tried it all out and some I can confirm. I'll comment sequentially. 1. I did not know you could use the rotor to select a field on a contact card that you want to edit. I tried it this way: I open contacts, open a random card, hit edit, and then I turn the rotor. No

Re: ITunes and sequencial track number tagging

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, What I use is fusion, and a little windows utility called mp3tag. It allows you to select a bunch of tracks, who's filenames have been nicely numbered. It looks at each file in turn, numbering it in sequence. Of course, your filename numbering must be correct, in order for mp3tag to match

mac numbers and basic operations

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, If I would buy numbers, does any of you know if basic operations are possible in it with voiceover? I know that numbers does have accessibility issues, therefore I'm asking. What I want is create a spreadsheet with a few columns, each column having a text header, and then being able

Re: Restoring a Macbook Air to Factory Defaults

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jonathan, Yes, the process is accessible. I assume you won't need the details below, but I'm writing them down for anyone interested. If you start up your mac and you hear the initial sound right after turning it on, then press and hold both command and the letter r while the sound is still

IOS 7 without the eye

2013-09-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi All, A number of issues that came by on this and other lists, have already been addressed in a wonderful and very recent book by Jonathan Mosen. His book is called IOS 7 without the eye. I bought it yesterday and it is absolutely a great read. If you are an iphone user already, this will

Re: Mac Mini without a screen

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Sep 11, 2013, at 4:10 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Aman, I don't have bootcamp experiences but without a monitor plugged in, my mini is very slow, saying it's busy busy busy all the time

Re: Mac Mini without a screen

2013-09-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Aman, I don't have bootcamp experiences but without a monitor plugged in, my mini is very slow, saying it's busy busy busy all the time, especially in safari. I hooked up a very old VGA monitor and now the busy's are over. An alternative is to buy a miniport to ntsc converter, but I have none

Re: reaper?

2013-08-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Maria and Joe, I don't have your specific answer, but here's something you or others might want to know. If midi is all you want to work with, and you want to use a vst synth as well, then QWS inside a windows virtual machine is fine. Qws was programmed and is still being maintained by I

Re: reinstalling os x mountain lion on macbook air

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Phil, Is it a necessity to use lion diskmaker? What if I have the mountain lion installer app, I extract the ESD image file from it which is about 4 GB, and then use something like super duper to restore that dmg to a USB drive. I'm just curious. Does diskmaker do something different, or

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead,

Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks are all messed up. I'll try to explain what is going on, and then give you the solution. Each character in a text file is a 1-byte value. In the old days,

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows

Re: Keyboard shortcut iCloud tabs?

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Tracey, I don't have the answer, but because you seem familiar with icloud tabs, I hope you know how I can delete all of them. How do I get rid of all icloud tabs, so that I can start from scratch with them? Interested. Paul. On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com

secure ftp and ssh

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, If I set up a secure ftp server, then what happens to secure shell? I'd like to set up an sftp server, without allowing secure shell for users outside my network. How can I do this? Can I have one without the other? Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: 1password passwords: where do they reside?

2013-07-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear all, After having created a new, secure password using 1password, and hitting the save button, can anyone tell me where it gets saved? I can't find the newly generated password inside any of the vault items. To Nick Parsons: thanks for the tip on command shift p. Didn't know that one

using the iphone personal wifi hotspot

2013-07-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, When we're out and about, my wife often wants to use my iphone wifi hotspot, because I sometimes have better coverage on my carrier. Everything works just fine, but there's one thing I'd like to change. The wifi network, being set up by my iphone as soon as I turn the wifi

Re: reading .docx documents on the mac?

2013-07-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, Adding to this: when reading through dot DocX files, especially when using braille, formatting sometimes looks weird. What I usually do, is command shift t inside text edit with the DocX loaded, to have it instantly converted into plain text. That removes the formatting, which is not

1password passwords: where do they reside?

2013-07-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, When inside 1password, one can generate a new password and then save it. Where are those stored? On the mac, when I arrow down the sidebar, I don't find a passwords item. It's not in secure notes, not in any other category, and it looks as if the generated passwords are not in

Re: why is vuescan necessary to use with Abby fine reader

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, What is your workflow when scanning with vuescan and fineReader express? Do you first scan all pages with vueScan, and then hand them all off to FineReaer to do the OCR? If so, would VueScan store all pages in one big image document such as pdf, or will I get 80 loose files out of

question for the geeks: sftp

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear geeks on here, After doing some research, I understand that I can host my own SFTP server on my mac. To do this is a bit of a challenge, and I have a couple of questions in advance that you may know the answers to. 1. As I understand it, SFTP is a protocol that runs inside, or over, SSH.

Re: Java-based Applications

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Harry, I can't solve your problem but as you asked, yes I have limited success with java applications on the mac. I can read parts of their interface, and routing your mouse and clicking, seems to be the way to go, as opposed to using the default action from voiceover, i.e. vo spacebar on

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On May 2, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Given that I

Re: time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Erkens
update or maybe you could check a specific date you know for sure it was on there. Just a thought. Regards, Gigi On May 3, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John Panarese, Thanks for your reply. I have that in my answers archive now. The problem I'm

time machine: finding a specific file

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled it and I tried the following. 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to begin with. Problem is though, that it

Re: Transfreing old contents to new virtual machine, is it possible?

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Krister, Well you can exchange files between 2 virtual windows machines, yes. You can not easily transfer all your apps. You would need to reinstall them in windows 7. What you can do however, is transfer data from the old xp vm to the new win7 vm, using file sharing built in to vmware

terminal question: wildcards

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers using terminal, How do I match all files starting with a period? I thought .* would be simple enough, but if I do ls .* on my external drive, which is os extended journaled, then all files in that dir show up. If I do the same command in my normal home directory, then the same

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening the normal menubar with vo plus m, m for menu as a mnemonic. Then, vo arrow right until you find the item called virtual machines. Hit vo space to open this

finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have a Western Digital 1tb drive attached to my mac. Its file system is mac os extended, journaled, so that should all be fine. However, when I go to this drive in finder, by simply hitting command down arrow on its volume icon on the desktop, finder crashes. Voiceover says I'm

itunes and buying songs today

2013-02-16 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, In the mac itunes store, I used to buy music and that would then be downloaded into my computer. I think this is no longer the case. Is it true that I can only stream a song from itunes from the Apple servers, and not have it in my possession on the hard disk? What I want is an

Re: amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings

2013-02-15 Thread Paul Erkens
://twitter.com/batworx On 15 Feb 2013, at 8:52 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear amadeus users, When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the lame encoder, but I think VoiceOver won't let me access the advanced dialog. I have a file ready

amadeus pro mp3 advanced settings

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear amadeus users, When saving a file in mp3, I would like to enter 2 advanced options for the lame encoder, but I think VoiceOver won't let me access the advanced dialog. I have a file ready in amadeus pro. I then hit command shift s to save as, give filename etc, choose mp3 as output, then

Re: program that will back up macintosh drive and bootcamp drive on osx?

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Hank, You will need 2 separate programs to do this, as far as I'm aware, but a cloner might be able to access your bootcamp partition as well. I don't use bootcamp. Can you see your windows partition from within finder? Command shift c takes you into a list of volumes accessible from

Re: how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
at the Mail Archive web site. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 21, 12:15 am, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, Often, I have a file that I want to perform a specific action on. For example, this could be a stereo wave file, that I want to convert to a 256 kilibit

Re: A couple of questions

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Matt, Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch audio converter that can do this. Not only does it convert audio from one format to the other, but one of its power functions is that it can grab a dvd, and spit out audio in the format you want. Hth, Paul. On

Re: A couple of questions

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
once, and it was a devil. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-01-27, at 12:29 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, Well I read about just that this morning. There's a thing called switch audio converter that can do this. Not only does it convert audio from one

Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Michael, So to summarize, ios 6.1 is just around the corner. Second, as soon as that comes out, then shortly afterwards, it is likely that the untethered jailbreak for ios 6.1 is ready as well. Did I miss anything important? It's a lot of talking, isn't it? Smile. Regards, Paul. On Jan 27,

Re: A little bit about iOS 6.1 release date, and the progress with the jailbreaking iOS six end up

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Erkens
it. At least, this is my hope. http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, So to summarize, ios 6.1 is just around the corner. Second, as soon as that comes out

time capsule port mappings don't stick

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I'm helping someone to set up their time capsule and all is fine, except for one thing. When I enter port mappings and save, the time capsule reboots as usual, but then when checking back on the port settings I made, the text fields for the port numbers are empty. In other words,

Re: curser and selection problems, any ideas?

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi William Windels, I sometimes experience strange VoiceOver behaviour like you described. Sometimes, my navigation gets stuck, even though quicknav is off. This is due to things your cursor comes across, that voiceover has difficulty with. Even an attachment I send in a mail message freezes

tip for amadeus pro

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've seen many descriptions, most of them mentioning that you have to set a marker. But what I do works quick. Say I want to cut off the start of a file, say the first minute. I play and skip

how can I add a finder context menu item to perform a quick action?

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, Often, I have a file that I want to perform a specific action on. For example, this could be a stereo wave file, that I want to convert to a 256 kilibit stereo mp3 file. Is there a way you can think of, that I can add a new menu item to the vo shift m context menu on a file, and

Re: tip for amadeus pro

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Erkens
, at 8:07 PM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Amadeus and VoiceOver users, Here's a quick tip if you want to cut audio from either end of a file. I've seen many descriptions, most of them mentioning that you have to set a marker. But what I do works quick. Say I want to cut off

Re: Browsing FTP servers with iOS

2013-01-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hey Chris, Well, what I use all the time is a thing called ftp on the go pro. It's not free, but I love it. It's accessible averywhere, as far as I discovered. I can upload, download, create and delete folders locally and remotely etc. There's one thing you should be aware of though, because

reasons to make mac stuff accessible

2013-01-13 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, Many developers on the mac platform are open to input. Some more than others, but it seldomly happened to me that I got no response at all. I'm using a program that has room for improvement, when it comes down to accessibility. What do you yourself tell developers, as good reasons to

Re: time machine basics

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Erkens
) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com

Re: help with hand break?

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Kliphton, I cannot answer your question, but since you say you figured out most of the stuff, could you please explain how handbrake works together with vlc? If you want to rip a dvd, then what do you do? Do you play the video with vlc single speed, and can handbrake capture that in some

Re: time capsule

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, You can configure your time capsule, using a utility that comes on every mac. It is called airport utility dot app, and it sits in the utilities folder, which is a child of applications. Command shift a gets you into applications, but instead using command shift u takes you into the

time machine basics

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear and clever listers, There is something very basic with time machine it seems, that I cannot get my head around. I have backed up for months, and I restored an entire machine once. That went well. But, what if I want to browse what is on my backups? When I choose open time machine from

Re: mac mini

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Erkens
Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 28, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cheryl, I sort of solved the problem, and thanks for the pointer to the checkboxes in sysprefs, bluetooth, advanced. I wasn't aware of those. So yes, I did fix the problem

Re: mac mini

2012-12-28 Thread Paul Erkens
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went

mac mini

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-27 Thread Paul Erkens
. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 25 Dec 2012, at 11:52, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Neil, Very good to know there are alternatives

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