possible resolve of adding Audio Facetime to your favourites in the phone App.

Hello Everyone. As an experiment, I added a contact to my favourites in my phone app, as like a few people on this list, I could not add Audio Facetime. Well, I did this again a few minutes, ago, by deleting a contact from my favourite. However, I added the same contact and rather than double

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi. Can Apple replace the hard drive with the SSD Storrage drive? > On 23 Sep 2016, at 17:50, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Putting an SSD into your Mini would realize huge improvements in access speed > for you. An SSD itself is often 60 to 80 times faster than a spinning

Word to pages batch converter?

So, I have searched the App Store, googled, and came up with nothing. All the apps that come up want to do pages to word, and pdf to word. So is there an app that does word to pages, or am I reaching here? Thanks. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

The return to call option will be all the way to the left in the status bar. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:31 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi, > > I couldn’t find the return to call button when I went through this process > Could only find the number pad and the associated call

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

No it’s just for iOS and no tvOS either. It’s only a small update to fix a few issues discovered in the Golden Master/public release. > On 24 Sep 2016, at 05:25, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Yeah ios 10.2 is out and installed but nothing for watch OS, > > -Original

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

If you miss the intro, no worries. Just press the play/pause button, bottom right hand side of the remote, three times. > On 23 Sep 2016, at 20:10, Vaughn Brown wrote: > > Thank you Everyone. I am assuming that once the HDMI port is selected > does Voiceover turn on on

RE: capitalone app

Hello Sarai, I am not a CapitalOne 360 bank customer. However, I can tell you that, recently, they have made some major changes to their mobile online interface that is affecting all of their iOS mobile apps. Based on my experience, I am confident that they are dedicated to making all of

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi Simon. I have an iPhone 6s. Waiting for my 7+. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:30 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Mary, > > Which phone do you have? > Interesting that It’s coming up as button to me but no delete with it, > Yet your finding it with

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Make sure you have iCloud keychain enabled on both devices as well. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > I just installed os x sierra and i have ios 10 on my idevice. Bluetooth is > turned on on both devices as is handoff. Both devices are

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Hallo Anouk, I experienced both: sometimes universal clipboard works and sometimes not. I additional experience sluggishness related to iCloud. Ones I deleted a pdf file in iCloud Drive and it took several hours until it was gonne on all my other devices, even though all devices were connected

Re: Selecting photos from albums in iMovie?

You may have better luck using the photos app itself to create the slideshow and then you can export that to a video. Now if you want something you can stick into a DVD player and have it run, that’s where I also got stuck and eventually gave up. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Alex Hall

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Hi, Yes they can. It can be done when you order your Mac, or after the fact. Some of the newer Macs must be ordered with your desired specs as they are extremely difficult, or almost even impossible to change/upgrade. Those with the spinning drive though are often more easily upgraded to

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Thank you. That’s a great, easy solution. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS

Selecting photos from albums in iMovie?

Hi all, I'm trying to help my (sighted) mother use iMovie under Sierra on a 2012 Macbook Pro. We're trying to import photos from an album in Photos, but not having luck. I go to the sidebar and choose the photos library option, and that's where things go wrong. At first, it seems fine. I find

universal copy/paste not working

Hi Everyone, I just installed os x sierra and i have ios 10 on my idevice. Bluetooth is turned on on both devices as is handoff. Both devices are loged into icloud. Still: universal copy/paste does not seem to be working. I enter text in textedit on the mac, hit select all and copy when i try

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Just installed the iOS 10.1 beta and works fine here. Have not decided if I will rejoin the beta program for Mac OS as I just did a clean upgrade from gold master of searria to the final build and things are fine so far except, mail keeps putting vo at the bottom of a conversation every time I

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

I'm seeing this as well sometimes. It seems to be random, would also like to retract some stuff I said earlier about Mac OS updates. The kernel fixes are more obvious if you play with it a bit. I have had a bit of time to heavily load the system and run regular workload through it. Seems to be

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Confirmed the can't shift tab to mailboxes but if you shift tab once and then tab, you can get to the mailboxes. This saves having to forward tab so much. On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:29 AM, Grant wrote: Hey guys, Wondering if you folks can confirm the following: 1. You

Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Hello all, I did a stupid thing and upgraded to Sierra without properly checking to see whether *everything* worked. I guess it never occurred to me that karabiner and Seil would be the things that would break, but there ya go. Ergo, functionally my virtual machines are broken, since now I

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Megan, I am not yet running Sierra. Unless the scheme changed in the latest Fusion, you can remap the NVDA key in VMware Fusion settings. I remapped to the accent key which is above the capslock key. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On

Re: Selecting photos from albums in iMovie?

I eventually got this to work. Don't ask me why, but it looks like some file or database got only partly upgraded, or deleted and not re-created, during the update to Sierra. After following some leads online, I opened iTunes, iMovie, and Photos all at once, and there were the albums, right in

scanners and the mac for use with docu scan plus

I just installed docu scan plus as a demo. It is only making use of the on board camera on the mack book. Is that the norm for the trial version. Also I tried my cannon scanner that, is used on my windows machine and the mac, does not see it at all. Is that due to being incompatible?

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi! THe second bug is replicable here. I have to unlock my phone to enter digits when on a call. /A > 24 sep. 2016 kl. 06:22 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > Hi list, > > Not sure if this is just me on my iPhone 6s+ but I’ve just found a couple of > oddities. > > Firstly the

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hi, I use the jump command VO + J. This jumps from either mailboxes to messages or the other way back. Max. > On 25 Sep. 2016, at 3:07 am, John Panarese wrote: > >Thank you. That’s a great, easy solution. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the

Please Join Me in Requesting That The New Night Mode Feature, introduced in the Latest Version of the iOS Twitter App, Be Made VoiceOver Accessible

Hello Everyone, Recently, Twitter introduced a new accessibility feature called Night Mode. As posted by I-Accessibility, Quote, Twitter for iOS has updated their app with a feature called Night Mode that changes the app's color scheme to allow for higher contrast text. This feature allows for

Difference between smart and ordinary mailboxes

Hi all, after installing Sierra the other day I could not get Mac Mail to work at all,. It kept crashing. After an hour and a half with Apple care we resolved the problem. I now have to rebuild my previous mailbox structure. What is the difference between ordinary mailboxes and smart ones?

A Bug in File volt

Hi. Have found a bug in File Volt so if you report to Apple, please report this bug for me. Once you set up File Volt, before you restart the computer to enable the process, please do turn off Voice Over to make the Mac restart or the process will not complete and you will be going round in

Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

Hi. I don't know why Siri is on the Mac as I find it very weird being able to tell Siri what to do as I'm use to it on the I phone but not so on the Mac. You see, I'm use to typing on the Mac and dictating on my I phone. So out of interest, what will people use Siri for on the Mac? Apart

Re: Signatures again.

Does the popup give you the option for the signature. What you might want to do is create a new signature and just copy and paste the text from the original to the new one. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hey guys, The jump command, VO-J, is useful but only works if you are either in the mailboxes table or the messages list. It won’t work if you are in any other part of the window. Still, it’s a great suggestion and I’ll work on retraining my muscle memory until the tab order bug is addressed.

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hello Kawal, The bug is that you cannot locate the mailboxes table while navigating through the window with Shift-Tab. If you’re using the Tab key, you’ll be able to see it without any problem. Again, this only applies to MacOS Sierra. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 4:18:36 PM,

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

Mine is quite slow on my mid 2012 MBP but I do use it for opening apps. I also appreciate quickly getting my system stats with it. Not sure whatelse I’ll use it for but possibly opening web pages will be something worthwhile. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com > On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:38

Re: Difference between smart and ordinary mailboxes

A mailbox is essentially a folder. Some, like inbox or drafts, are pre-built; others are created by the user. The best these can do is have messages filtered into them by simple rules, usually set up on the server side for IMAP accounts. Smart mailboxes also hold messages, but they can get

Disregard Re: Unable to capitalize letters

It turns out somehow my VoiceOver setting was changed. It just wasn’t reading out the cap before letters. Thanks, Traci > On Sep 24, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Weird issue here. I cannot capitalize letters. It is like my shift keys are > not working. >

Re: Signatures again.

Hi John. What I'd like to do is if I have an I phone, Mac or Mac Mini and because I'm using the same ID for all, because I have composed my signature in my mail I Cloud account, regardless of whether I'm sending from an Alias or my main e-mail, I can select the same signature that I might have

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Hi Megan, A new version of Karabiner is being developed for Sierra. Currently however, you have to remap the key by creating a configuration file manually. Here is the info in case you’d like to give it a shot: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

Re: Signatures again.

I’m not sure what you are trying to do here. Do you mean where the signature actually show up in a message. Or do you mean you want to use the signature text in different accounts? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I find it helpful for quickly sending tweets or messages, opening apps, getting the definitions or spellings of words, and looking for files/pictures. For instance, I needed to find a particular picture I'd taken the previous day, so simply told Siri to "show pictures I took yesterday". Yes,

Signatures again.

Hi. Just have installed Sierra on to two of my computers namely the Mac Mini and I Mac after a clean install. Process went well and I'm very happy with it all. Now I'm just setting up my Macs as I like them and have one problem though. I have a signature in I Cloud which I can see meaning I

PayPal digital gift store

Hello, I usually use the PayPal digital gift store to purchase iTunes gift codes, however, I’m having a hard time with the website today. For some reason I cannot get past the shopping cart page. Actually, even though the webpage title says it is the shopping cart, I cannot locate anything

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Hi Scott, Unfortunately not, the caps lock key is not passed directly through to a virtual machine unless you use a third-party utility to remap it to something else. A few of us were using a couple utilities called Karabiner and Seal to do this, but those do not yet function under Sierra.

A Happy Follow-up to an Audio Described Movie Question Originally Posted back in February, 2016

Hello All, I am posting this to both the V iPhone and Mac Visionaries mailing lists. Back in February of 2016, I posted a question with the subject line of "A Question About Audio Descriptive Movies in iTunes". I will paste in the original message, below my signature. In that message, I wanted

Re: found IOS 10 bugs

I have noticed the second not the first and the return to call has worked for me as well. Could I add a third? In the public release / 10.0.1 production release the phone app freezes and either needs to be killed or will crash and you need to press again from the doc. Happens once in a

Unable to capitalize letters

Weird issue here. I cannot capitalize letters. It is like my shift keys are not working. Any ideas? Thanks, Traci -- 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

Re: Signatures again.

It's set to none. I want it set to my name. That is the problem, how can I get it set to my Signature in In I Cloud? I want to drag my signature to the pop up box but I don't know how. > On 24 Sep 2016, at 23:59, John Panarese > wrote: > >

Re: scanners and the mac for use with docu scan plus

Docuscan plus should use any Twain compatible scanner on your Mac. my guess is that you forgotten to install the can and drivers and utilities that came with your scanner for the Mac .if they didn't come on a CD with your scanner you'll probably have to download them off the internet. hope this

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

Hi! Well, i did the same last time i was on an update. But i had to remove the profile because the watch didn’t want to update to the latest stable release. /A > 24 sep. 2016 kl. 01:14 skrev Scott Granados : > > Interesting, when I logged in to the public beta site with the

Re: A strange observation about the speed of system on both Mac mini and macbook pro

Also, you probably have local shops that can do this less expensively. It’s worth shopping the business around a little to get the best deal. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Saqib Hussain wrote: > > Hi. Can Apple replace the hard drive with the SSD Storrage drive? >> On

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Why wouldn’t you just use sharp keys? Is that not effective for the changes you mention? > On Sep 24, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Megan Bening wrote: > > Hello all, > I did a stupid thing and upgraded to Sierra without properly checking to see > whether *everything* worked. I

Re: Signatures again.

In Mail preferences, when you are looking at the iCloud signature, there is a popup button all the way to the right. This will set the signature as the default one. Is that set? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

I can't find the bvug that people are talking about in Mail as I have no problem locating the Mailboxes table at the left of messages. Kawal. > On 24 Sep 2016, at 22:40, Agent086b wrote: > > Hi, > I use the jump command VO + J. This jumps from either mailboxes to

Re: Signatures again.

Yes it did John. I was so happy with the fresh install as there were no hitches. I just found the Macmini a bit slow than my powerful I Mac as it has half the memory being a 16 rather than the 32 ram. `Now it feels as if it's come from the factory. So much better than windows. Kawal. > On

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I don't find Siri to be useful on the phone, so I don't use it on the mac either. I also disable predictive text, all the autocorrect things and all that stuff. Haven't really found a use for any of it. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: universal copy/paste not working

You're lucky for even some of the time working, as I tried literally probably about 30 times doing identically what was mentioned with Text Edit. It doesn't work over here, trust me. I wasn't gonna say anything, as I know there are those on this list who'd say I was being a cry baby, and

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Oh! Does keychain have to be on? Waaait! a minute here! Is that! also what is going on with my contacts perhaps, as I did! indeed turn keychain off on both devices. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. -

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hi Kawal, Correct, VO-Left and VO-Right work fine in the mail app. It’s just the tab order which is not working correctly. Since tabbing can interact automatically, it’s often a very efficient way to navigate through a MacOS application. Grant > On Saturday September 24, 2016, at 5:29:55 PM,

Re: Signatures again.

John, I have noticed that when I do signatures on 1 system, it removes them on another. Meaning, it won’t stay on both at the same time. You have a fix for this? > On Sep 24, 2016, at 8:41 PM, John Panarese wrote: > >I’d have to check to see if mail signatures are

RE: Word to pages batch converter?

What about using an RTF format document? Surely RTF would be picked up by Pages -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliphton Miller Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2016 12:28 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I know people yell at their computers, but I would think that you would not have to do that with siri On 9/24/2016 7:42 PM, Scott Granados wrote: I like Siri, I can yell at my computer now and it responds.:) No I like opening applications or quick dictation. Sometimes you want to know

Re: Signatures again.

Did everything else sync over onto the Mini from iCloud? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

I locate the mailboxes table with VO left and right arrow with no problem. I hardly use the tab and shift key when operating mail. It's always vo left arrow or VO right arrow. I don't even use the command J for jump either. I work in the modern view and just expand messages and read that

Re: Signatures again.

I’d have to check to see if mail signatures are supposed to actually sync over. For some reason, I recall having to do them myself again on each system. You might want to uncheck Mail and recheck it again on the Mini in System Prefs in iCloud settings. Take Care John D. Panarese Director

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I hate predictive text and all those automatic things. I prefer to do things manually. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 01:37, Blee Blat wrote: > > I don't find Siri to be useful on the phone, so I don't use it on the mac > either. I also disable predictive text, all the autocorrect

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I like Siri, I can yell at my computer now and it responds.:) No I like opening applications or quick dictation. Sometimes you want to know something random like the net worth of Mountain Man or something odd. :) > On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > >

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Why not just use favorites? That way you can use 1 threw 0 respectively to go to your desired mail boxes. > On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Grant wrote: > > Hello Kawal, > > The bug is that you cannot locate the mailboxes table while navigating > through the window with

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Yes, iCloud keychain needs to be on. It secures all the data. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 25/09/2016, at 16:12, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Oh! Does keychain have to be on? Waaait!

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

I've taken a read of what's available about the new Karabina Elements, as I'm really keen to get this functionality back. I wasn't able to work out how to create a configuration file that remaps the capslock key. If just one of us could get to the bottom of the way to do this, we could make the

Re: Signatures again.

I did create a new one John and put it in I cloud but even though my Mac Mini is on the same network it can't find it. Kawal. > On 25 Sep 2016, at 00:21, John Panarese wrote: > >Does the popup give you the option for the signature. What you might want > to do is

Re: Signatures again.

I don’t know. I recall the same thing happening to me, which is why I had to create them from scratch on each system. However, this was a while back, so it might have changed in later operating systems. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: universal copy/paste not working

Welcome to the family, and join the club. I can't get it working either. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Anouk Radix" To:

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Hi Traci, I don’t see why not as this is exactly the kind of use case for Karabiner. But I’m going to wait until the Sierra version is a little more mature before giving it a go as it’s only in the pre-release stage and everything has to be edited manually in configuration files. On their

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Hi, would this manual remapping work to remap the right command key into right control? Thanks, Traci Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Grant wrote: > > Hi Megan, > > A new version of Karabiner is being developed for Sierra. Currently however, > you

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

I am sure we will all have a use for Siri at some point as at the moment, I love mail as it's so clean and the whole interface for the new operating system is one of the best I've seen to date. We should thank all the testers for working so hard sending in bug reports and most importantly

Re: Have any VMWare fusion users found workarounds for remapping their caps key now that Karabiner and Seal don't work on Sierra?

Grant, thanks for explaining this. I wasn’t aware you could remap external to the VM like that. Thank you > On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Grant wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Unfortunately not, the caps lock key is not passed directly through to a > virtual machine

RE: found IOS 10 bugs

Hi Mary, I’ll check this again on my phone see if it’s saying delete which I jus hadn’t noticed. Chers, Simon F From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2016 6:19 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

Hi oh wow i wil be getting my new mack for christmas it's my first one . I am excited . glad mail works well On 25/09/2016 01:34, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: I am sure we will all have a use for Siri at some point as at the moment, I love mail as it's so clean and the whole interface for the new