Problems importing Feed into Readkit

2016-07-10 Thread David Griffith
this app usable with a standard OPML RSS Feed import? David Griffith -- 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, p

Re: Not all e-mail showing when I open a conversation.

2016-07-19 Thread David Griffith
Command Shift D. David Griffith On 26/06/2016 13:00, Saqib Hussain wrote: Hi. I do VO J to jump to the message body and the same to move back into the message thread but I don’t know how to send a message without going to the toolbar so does anyone know how what the command is to send a

Re: Is the Kindle App accessible on Mac OS ?

2016-07-29 Thread David Griffith
As far as I am concerned the text content of books in the Mac Kindle app is still completely inaccessible to Voiceover. There was some claim that some people were getting some feedback with braille but as I am not a braille user I cannot comment. David Griffith On 29/07/2016 12:34, Saqib

Re: Playing BBC World Service Content on My Mac

2016-08-02 Thread David Griffith
still do this but it would be worth a look. David Griffith On 02/08/2016 12:47, Craig Werner wrote: Hello, everyone. I am a U.S. listener running OS X 10.10.5 on a MacBook Air. I am trying to play live stream of the BBC World Service via the BBC iPlayer, but when I press the "Play"

Re: Accessibility and the Amazon site

2016-08-20 Thread David Griffith
The last time I tried the mobile version of the Amazon site I could not download any mp3 music - only available from the full site, has this changed? David Griffith On 20/08/2016 07:40, christopher hallsworth wrote: Not if you use www.amazon.com/mobile or www.amazon.co.uk/mobile On 19 Aug

Re: Some interesting rumours regarding 3.5 mm jack issue on the iPhone seven

2016-09-01 Thread David Griffith
. This did cause another another poster to comment that ironically some people are deaf to the concerns of those of with hearing impairments. David Griffith On 01/09/2016 20:07, Jonathan Mosen wrote: Hi Mary, unfortunately this issue doesn't affect the Deaf community in the same way

Re: Some interesting rumours regarding 3.5 mm jack issue on the iPhone seven

2016-09-02 Thread David Griffith
deaf users. David Griffith On 02/09/2016 13:35, Scott Granados wrote: Jonathan, now you’re just writing stuff to read it later, that’s just nutty. You make it like some huge personal assault against the great and mighty Jonathan Mosen, please, we’ve seen an adapter is going to exist so you

Re: Replacing a local copy of a song in iTunes with the iCloud match?

2016-09-05 Thread David Griffith
the extended tag view you will easily be able to find what I am talking about. David Griffith On 05/09/2016 14:33, Larry Thacker Jr. wrote: I don’t really want Match, but I have considered using it because I have so much music that was ripped from CD at lower quality and it would be nice

Re: The best Mac alternative to MS Office

2012-03-05 Thread David Griffith
spreadsheet than Numbers. I have not really investigated this yet as I am still using Excel under Fusion. I have heard Bento is an accessible database. David Griffith. 5 Mar 2012, at 15:36, Deamon David wrote: > Hi folks. > Since I myself aren't using Office suites that much, I&#x

Re: The best Mac alternative to MS Office

2012-03-08 Thread David Griffith
I do not think you can. As far as I can see Open Office is useless if you are usingLion. David Griffith On 6 Mar 2012, at 03:49, Becky Knaub wrote: > For those of you who use Open, How do you get VO to tell you what you are > typing. It does it for all of my other apps but not this

Re: Libre and Open office

2012-03-08 Thread David Griffith
I am a Lion user and I have never managed to get any typing echo with multiple versions of Open Office. On 8 Mar 2012, at 02:42, Becky Knaub wrote: > Hi guys > Is it normal that these two programs do not speak what you type and seem to > conflict with VO? I thought they were a bit more accessibl

Re: Got network back, but still two VM Fusion questions

2012-03-28 Thread David Griffith
Have you tried Sharp keys in VM Fusion Win 7? On 25 Mar 2012, at 03:16, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I did manage to get the network back online in my VM Win 7 machine. I still > cannot remap the keys, though, and I am also wondering if this is normal VM > behavior. I am using Win 7 with the l

Re: question about Apple wired keyboard with num pad.

2012-04-02 Thread David Griffith
You need to be careful though. This applies to the modern thin wired keyboard supplied by Apple. I hated this and replaced it with the old chunkier IMac keyboard. This does not have an FN key and there is a help key instead where the more modern FN key is placed. David Griffith b On 30 Mar

Re: Disabling the preview pane in Lion mail

2012-04-16 Thread David Griffith
Under Lion the NumPad Commander 5 button is now perform action. That is the same as VO Spacebar. However on my setup at least control numpad 5 produces a mouse click. I cannot honestly remember if I set this up or whether it comes by default. It is easy to set up if this is not the default.David

Re: Launch Pad

2012-06-06 Thread David Griffith
need to interact. You will need to be on the Desktop or other Finder window for the shortcut to work. David Griffith On 4 Jun 2012, at 23:39, ROD SKENE wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to alphabetize the additional apps you have installed on your > Mac. The additional apps ar

Re: Launch Pad

2012-06-07 Thread David Griffith
the app without interacting. David Griffith On 7 Jun 2012, at 00:10, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what you meant by if you start typing, you don't even have to > interact. Why would you need to interact with the browser in finder at all > unless,

Re: interacting was question for all voice over trainers: trouble interacting with items

2012-06-07 Thread David Griffith
life easier. I agree the concept needs more formal understanding on the Mac but it is present in some form on all screen reading PC Platforms I think. so I think people need to relax into the concept and recognise that it is not completely alien when you analyse it. David Griffith On 6 Jun 2012

Re: DVD to mp3

2012-07-05 Thread David Griffith
I saw themessage about using DVD Master but so far I have failed miserably to get any mp3 format out of it. I wanted to get the Mp3s to play on my pocket plextalk daisy player. I have found quite a few output formats but none of them are mp3. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? David

Re: TextEdit question

2012-08-23 Thread David Griffith
Command right and left arrow willmove you to the beginning and end of a line. and On 23 Aug 2012, at 14:25, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > If I'm in TextEdit and I want to move to the end of a line, how do I do this? > I'm using a USB apple keyboard with my White MacBook running SL. > Tha

Re: Mac feel natural

2011-11-26 Thread David Griffith
recommendation is give num pad commander a try. If you have a mac book then I would definitely invest in an external keyboard to gain the convenience of the num pad. David Griffith n 26 Nov 2011, at 09:19, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Garth, > > There are vast numbers of keyboard short

Feedback on secure Edit boxes

2011-11-27 Thread David Griffith
Voiceover and Safari to do consistently, that is provide a click on secure edit boxes, and I would be happy. David Griffith. . appaerar p 27 Nov 2011, at 01:10, Scott Howell wrote: > David, > > I have a very long password I use for my banking site. I can tell you that > APple is

Re: selecting non-contiguous items in a folder with the keyboard

2011-12-10 Thread David Griffith
If you are using Lion this is very easy. Simply press VO command spacebar to toggle selection on and off on an item. . VO cursor down to the next item you want to select and then press VOcommand spacebar again. VO will say added to selection and tell you the number of items you have selected.

Re: selecting non-contiguous items in a folder with the keyboard

2011-12-11 Thread David Griffith
so on. I think this is about as clear as I can be . Hope that you get there. David Griffith On 10 Dec 2011, at 14:54, Angie Giltinan wrote: > When I do this, I hear > Voiceover on. > Any ideas? > On Dec 10, 2011, at 9:48 AM, David Griffith wrote: > >> If you are using L

Re: What am I doing Wrong

2011-12-11 Thread David Griffith
screen mode by pressing control command and Return. 6. Personally I find you need to turn voiceover ver off before doing this because of key conflicts. 7. To return to the Mac press control command and return again to leave full screen mode and then you can use turn Voiceover on again. David

Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-12 Thread David Griffith
. Having found it impossible to connect a windows ergonomic keyboard which is compatible with the Mac I am suspicious of claims that things should be compatible. Does anybody have successful experience of using a separate numpad keyboard with the Mac? Regards David Griffith -- You received this

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-12 Thread David Griffith
ithout any use of a > numpad. > Does a Mac-driven laptop with VoiceOver require use of a numpad to operate?I > was planning on trying for a MacBook Air soon. > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12/12/2011, at 12:49 AM, David Griffith wrote

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-16 Thread David Griffith
perfectly with Voiceover and the Num Pad commander. I just closed keyboard assistant and all was fine. I can now go ahead and purchase a Mac Ergonomic keyboard and hopefully the masses of typing I have to do inn the next 12 months will be a more pleasurable experience. David griffith On

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-18 Thread David Griffith
gards David Griffith On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:53, Esther wrote: > Hi David, > > I've been meaning to reply to your post, but was getting a bit confused as to > whether my reply should be on this list or on the mac-access list, where you > also posted this question. I haven&#

Re: Num Pad Accessory

2011-12-19 Thread David Griffith
Magario wrote: > I know it is off topic. But, is the 10 words a challenge? Just curious! > Rachel. > On Dec 18, 2011, at 7:42 AM, David Griffith wrote: > >> Dear Esther >> >> As always a very helpful post. >> I can confirm that after experimentatio

Re: Creating a distribution or Group mailing list in Address Book?

2012-01-18 Thread David Griffith
Have you tried just pressing return on the untitled group? I have achieved this and it was eventually fairly easy. Start with your all contact group. Interact with this and work down the list and press VO command spacebar on all the contact you want to put into the new group. This will select non

Re: Creating a distribution or Group mailing list in Address Book?

2012-01-18 Thread David Griffith
dress book and > so, I could not add it. Do I need to do something else? > > Best regards and thanks, > > Mike > > On 18,Jan,2012, at 10:44 AM, David Griffith wrote: > >> Have you tried just pressing return on the untitled group? >> I have achieved this and it

Re: Creating a distribution or Group mailing list in Address Book?

2012-01-18 Thread David Griffith
information scroll area. Here you have to interact and then you will be able to access all the normal fields. I find using the tab key easier if you have tab key seth up to interact but give it a try. David Griffith . tab On 18 Jan 2012, at 11:49, Michael Busboom wrote: > I added the address

Fwd: Turning Off Google Chrome Vox

2012-01-18 Thread David Griffith
> Regards > David Griffith > David Griffith > d.griff...@btinternet.com > > > -- 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: Vmware fusion 3 and jaws 12 dropping authorisation key

2012-01-24 Thread David Griffith
If you change any aspects of the Virtual Machine Jaws will think it has been copied onto a new machine. e. Go to then Freedom Scientific web site and look for the activation page. Here you can send an email asking for your activation to be reset. I have had to do this twice with my fusion VMs

Re: a little help with vmware fusion please?

2012-01-24 Thread David Griffith
control command and return. I also find it important to turn Voiceover off as in contrast to the experience of people who say that there is no conflict I find loads of conflicts with Windows 7. David Griffith On 24 Jan 2012, at 18:16, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > Hi Folks, > > hop

Re: Accessible Typing Software

2012-02-01 Thread David Griffith
the lyrics but it was great way of practising. . . Of course this is all possible to do with a Mac as well as a Windows computer. David griffith On 31 Jan 2012, at 21:22, Rodney wrote: > Anyone know of software for the Mac that is of course VO friendly, > that will teach someone how t

Re: Managing Documents and Folders

2012-02-09 Thread David Griffith
If you are using Lion all you do is press option command V to paste using move rather than copy the selected files. David Griffith On 9 Feb 2012, at 18:37, Marc wrote: > In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured > out how to create and name new folders.

Re: Changing Sounds in Apple Mail

2012-02-20 Thread David Griffith
same level of system configuration. Lots of things you can do in Terminal and automator but I have yet to learn these. David Griffith On 19 Feb 2012, at 16:49, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > Hello folks, > > I am curious if anyone has been successful at changing other sounds in appl

Re: fn key on the full sized keyboard

2012-02-21 Thread David Griffith
My full sized Apple extended keyboard does not have an FN key. I replaced the thin keyboard which came with my IMac as it was torture for my wrists. I bought an old style IMac keyboard which was generally much better for me but as I say does not have an FN key. Where people suggest it is on t

Re: Waking up a virtual machine

2014-04-02 Thread David Griffith
Are you using Fusion in full screen mode? I found it worked better in full screen. David Griffith -- 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: paging down on web?

2014-06-13 Thread David Griffith
arrow and paragraph by pressing the right arrow. David Griffith 06/2014 11:44, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: how to page down on safari? its seems i cant do page down or page up on the web, and there's no read by paragraph or line in web router? i am talking about safari, but in pages

Re: paging down on web?

2014-06-13 Thread David Griffith
This is a little puzzling as I have just checked my web rota on Safari using Mavericks system and lines is there alongside words and characters as normal. Are you sure it is the web rota settings that you have adjusted? David Griffith -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: vmware fusion vo question

2014-06-20 Thread David Griffith
What I do is always use the Virtual Machine in full screen mode -control command and enter. If I want to return to the Mac all I have to do is press control command enter again and then command tab will take me away from the Fusion Window. David GriffithOn 20/06/2014 05:38, Hank Smith, and See

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-21 Thread David Griffith
Yousimply ask your phone provider for a replacement sim. This is what I did when I transferred my Virgin sim from a Nokia to my iPhone. On 21/06/2014 08:41, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: Well yes could do that. But the 4s take a microsim whereas the 5s take a nanosim. So how exactly would thi

Re: inserting an insert

2014-06-27 Thread David Griffith
If you are using NVDA why don't you just go into NVDASettings and set up the Caps Lock key as the NVDA key? From memory this is in Key oard but it may be under General. David Griffith On 27/06/2014 22:01, Devin Prater wrote: Hi all. So I have VMWare, and a windows bootcamp partition an

Re: Macking the windows restore on bootcamp, is it possible?

2014-06-28 Thread David Griffith
accessible they are. Snapshot is a good accessible option but you may need to check that it works with Boot Camp. David Griffith On 28/06/2014 04:39, ramy moustafa wrote: Hi all: don't know if this is ithe right place to ask this question, but i did bootcamp with mavericks and windows 7 on m

Re: item chooser

2015-02-19 Thread David Griffith
everything as before should be added to the chooser. David Griffith On 19/02/2015 17:19, Jean wrote: Hello All: I have just up-graded to Yosemite after waiting for things to settle down. Things seem ok on the whole so far except for the item chooser in Safari. Are there any strategies for

Re: track changes in an RTF?

2015-02-20 Thread David Griffith
accessible. It might be just easiest though to ask the originator of the file to resend it as a Word document. David Griffith On 20/02/2015 19:26, Tyler Thompson wrote: Rtf files can be opened by any text editor. TextEdit can handle it and pages should be able to handle it. Surprisingly safari

Re: Reading columns in pdfs

2015-02-21 Thread David Griffith
cope with a word processing format with columns. Pages is supposed to work with tables with Voiceover so there is some hope that it might cope with columns as well. You might need to experiment. David Griffith On 21/02/2015 01:51, Traci Duncan wrote: Hi all, I’m sending this to both lists

Re: A few questions.

2015-02-26 Thread David Griffith
. David Griffith On 26/02/2015 22:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: I think the Kindle app for iPad and iPhone is accessible. I’m curious about the Kindle Mac app myself. I’ve used it on the iPhone though. I think it would be easier than trying to convert them although I’d like to know how to do that too. My

Re: A few questions.

2015-02-27 Thread David Griffith
necessarily read . any of the comments I made as necessarily applying to the US. David Griffith > On 27 Feb 2015, at 05:50, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I did it all the time in windows but I can understand why you don’t want that > discussed here. I know how to use google or start page

Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread David Griffith
commander but none of them will work in Mail Messages so this would be a genuinely useful script. David Griffith -- 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: Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread David Griffith
by making a rare foray to my actual Mac. However what I want to do is not read the page but navigate or jump down 25 or 30 lines without the tedium of reading all the repeated messages in a Mail digest. David Griffith On 27/02/2015 13:13, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Did you try a three finger swipe

Re: MP3 tagging utility for mac?

2015-03-07 Thread David Griffith
. David Griffith On 07/03/2015 03:40, Joe Quinn wrote: Is there a good mp3 tagging utility similar to mp3 tag for windows for mac? I don't want to have to use itunes, I'd like my files to be in a listview and I just tag away. Or is this just a dream and I'll have to use windows for my

Re: Clean install of Mountain Lion and the possible effect n Bootcamp

2015-03-07 Thread David Griffith
doing a clean install has never affected myBoot Camp Partition. David GriffithOn 07/03/2015 14:00, Graham wrote: Hi, I am selling my old MBP which has the OS Mountain Lion installed. If i do a clean install of the OS, will this damage the Windows7 Bootcamp partition? Many thanks in advance fo

Re: button click being ignored

2015-03-09 Thread David Griffith
virtual mouse click on the button. David Griffith On 09/03/2015 10:13, Stuart Russell wrote: This morning, I attempted to set up an account at Best buy. When I finished the account creation process, I clicked on the continue button. However, this button press was ignored & I was unable to finish

Safari on the Mac

2015-03-17 Thread David Griffith
I have changed the subject line to reflect the direction the discussion is going. My own observations on Safari is that it is my preferred browser on all platforms for general news and page reading largely because of the excellent Reader function. However like others I find that there are se

Re: Safari on the Mac

2015-03-17 Thread David Griffith
I did so last year but so far to no affect. DavidGriffith On 17/03/2015 20:34, Joseph wrote: Hello, Please express this to Apple Accessibility. accessibil...@apple.com <mailto:accessibil...@apple.com> On Mar 17, 2015, at 1:29 PM, David Griffith wrote: I have changed the subject l

Re: Safari on the Mac

2015-03-18 Thread David Griffith
. I am a little nervous of this as I have had to end up resetting bank passwords etc in the past which is areal pain but if some improvement has occurred I will update. David Griffith On 18/03/2015 01:41, Colin Matthews wrote: Hi! OK I’m no expert but also could some of these problems be that

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread David Griffith
expecting something to come up after pressing a download link this is not too much of a problem. I covered this in one of my Podcasts which should still be on Apple Vis I think. David Griffith On 18/03/2015 22:12, Eugenia Firth wrote: If I remember right, the Macintosh command to check your

Re: updating adobe flash player on the Mac

2015-03-24 Thread David Griffith
I would simply add that on occasions I find that I have to use virtual mouse click, that is shift VO space on buttons for the install to proceed rather than VO space. Also pressing the space-bar by itself or the enter key sometimes works. David Griffith On 03/2015 14:57, Phil Halton wrote

Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-03-27 Thread David Griffith
again provided no useful result. The only text area of thethat I was able to interact and read was the filename title of the PDF document. It is possible I have missed something but I went through all the preferences. David Griffith > On 27 Mar 2015, at 06:23, Jonathan Mosen wrote: >

Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-03-27 Thread David Griffith
OK I checked for updates and it told me I had the latest version so the accessible VO version is hopefully yet to come. David Griffith On 27/03/2015 15:18, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: 11.0.10 was released December 2014 so I suspect that is not the fixed version. CB

Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-03-27 Thread David Griffith
Absolutely no confusion on my part. If you check the earlier thread you will see Jonathan said Adobe had announced that they released a VO Accessible version of Adobe Reader for the Mac on Twitter yesterday. David Griffith > On 27 Mar 2015, at 18:23, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi,

Re: How do you update Adobi on the Mac using VO?

2015-03-27 Thread David Griffith
throw up "helper" htm windows with messages like close Safari to complete the install and other things. These can remove focus from the install app so you need to use Window Chooser to interact with these windows and respond to them. David Griffith rto On 27/03/2015 19:22, Lisette

Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8

2015-03-28 Thread David Griffith
is the tone of emails I will have to read then I will be off. David Griffith On 28/03/2015 13:01, mário navarro wrote: man, why you are so stupid? you work for apple? apple pay all your debts at the end of the month? apple solves all your problems of accessibility in the voice over? yes

Moderators

2015-03-28 Thread David Griffith
Does anybody know how to contact moderators on this list? David Griffith -- 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 email to macvisionarie

Inappropriate Responsses on List

2015-03-28 Thread David Griffith
mouth, and call the moderators. fuck you, piece of shit ... Em 28/03/2015 17:53, David Griffith escreveu: Does anybody know how to contact moderators on this list? David Griffith On 28/03/2015 18:34, mário navarro wrote: fuck you bitch. your pussy stinks. Em 28/03/2015 18:16

Re: Inappropriate Responsses on List

2015-03-28 Thread David Griffith
Groups Web page but I am not sure that this has worked either. I will wait to see if anybody is actually monitoring the list. David Griffith On 28/03/2015 23:32, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: whoops? This actually went to the whole list. Try the address I suggested. macvisionaries+ow

Re: Siri not available

2015-03-29 Thread David Griffith
Store. I think these problems were also eventually resolved at the Apple End. David Griffith On 29/03/2015 20:00, Phil Halton wrote: I am getting “siri not available , connect to the internet” messages all of a sudden when I try to use Siri. Siri works fine when I’m on my wifi network, and it

Re: Moderation of the list

2015-03-29 Thread David Griffith
Many thanks. Clearly this is an important list with many resourceful people and it appears that there are some good folk who would be prepared to help out with moderation if necessary to help maintain it. Is there a point that they should contact/volunteer? David Griffith On 30/03/2015 05

Re: I Player for the Mac.

2015-03-30 Thread David Griffith
I use Get i Player Automaker. with this you download the files and can play them offline. Actually I convert the video files created to mp3. David Griffith play them off line. On 30/03/2015 19:09, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Has anyone used Iplayer for the Mac? I hope someone can tell me if

Re: I Player for the Mac.

2015-03-31 Thread David Griffith
I searched on Google. I can look for you if you cnnot find it. David Griffith On 30/03/2015 22:15, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: So where do you get this from? Kawal. On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:56, David Griffith wrote: I use Get i Player Automaker. with this you download the files and can play

Re: Get a Scanner to work in a different O.S. Was: Re: Abby Finer Reading. Was: Re: Reading PDF files on the mac

2015-04-02 Thread David Griffith
would definitely tell you whether VueScan will be able to see your scanner on the Mac. David Griffith On 02/04/2015 08:42, 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries wrote: Ciao Gena and thanks for your answer. Yes, officially they don't list Mac OS among the supported O.S. It

Re: Are there no alternate iOS browsers?

2015-04-09 Thread David Griffith
There are good reviews of the Atomic Web Browser on Apple Vis which has manymore features than Safari including a download manager. I have installed the app but have not investigated it yet. David Griffith atomic > On 9 Apr 2015, at 21:13, Phil Halton wrote: > > I am still won

Re: os 10.10.3

2015-04-09 Thread David Griffith
I had the opposite experienced. I had to try 4 times to download and install iO/s 8.3 on my iPad whilst the Mac update has downloaded and installed fine. I guess it is the luck of the draw as to when > you contact the Apple server and how busy it is. On 9 Apr 2015, at 19:33, > Faisal ali

Re: VoiceOver and Word processors

2015-04-11 Thread David Griffith
time to time at reduced rates from sites such as Mac-Update and has also been bundled with other apps in some of their bargain offers. David Griffith On 11/04/2015 12:03, Sadam Ahmed wrote: Hi, Have tried text edit. But found it a little too simple for my needs. Kind regards, Sadam

Re: VoiceOver and Word processors

2015-04-11 Thread David Griffith
normally the title of the documents. This will be a familiar experience to people used to using Word. There are of course a host more features available through the comprehensive menu system. David Griffith Ahmed wrote: Hi David, I’ve heard good things about Nisus writer pro. In the

Re: VoiceOver and Word processors

2015-04-11 Thread David Griffith
of use for voiceover users. David Griffith On 11/04/2015 13:23, Joanne Chua wrote: What about Libre Office as an option? I heard that Libre office suppose to be fairly accessible with voiceover. Personally i use pages, but i'll still use the pc laptop for any complex formating. Joanne

Constantly being asked to sighn into iCloud.

2015-04-14 Thread David Griffith
hings even worse. Has anybody managed to get around this problem? David Griffith -- 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 email to macvisio

Re: Thinking of buying Pages

2015-04-14 Thread David Griffith
Yes but if you update to Yosemite you will have free access to Pages. David Griffith On 15/04/2015 05:03, Agent086b wrote: Hi, I think that came in just after I got my iMac. Max. On 15 Apr 2015, at 2:01 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: I thought Pages was now free if

Re: Automatically enabling and disabling Quick Nav when apps gain focus

2015-04-20 Thread David Griffith
Safari are loaded. You may have to be more specific about what steps you took in setting up the activity for us to comment on whether you are doing anything wrong. David Griffith On 19/04/2015 23:47, Edward Green wrote: Hi, I want to set up my Mac so that the state of the quick nav toggle is

Re: More Nisus writer questions.

2015-05-01 Thread David Griffith
useful in more applications than Nisus. David Griffith > On 1 May 2015, at 02:39, sadam ahmed wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’ve recently invested in the purchase of Nisus writer pro for my Mac. > > My question is how does one get the word count using a direct VO keystroke?

Re: Renaming cd in itunes.

2015-06-17 Thread David Griffith
is very different from mp3Tag and is unfortunately not free. Mp3Tag has more features so there are advantages in doing this under Windows as opposed to the Mac. David Griffith On 7/06/2015 10:09, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hello! I have a cd here which is included in a radio-drama. Though the

Re: Renaming cd in itunes.

2015-06-17 Thread David Griffith
Apologies for not specifying Mac instructions more. I did not spot this was a MacVisionaries question and confused this query with a more general Computing list. David Griffith On 17/06/2015 15:59, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, iTunes on the Mac will do this just fine. similarly, select the

Getting Office on the Mac

2015-08-31 Thread David Griffith
have found and is there a workaround for this? David Griffith -- 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 email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegrou

Problem with Logging On after Update.

2016-04-17 Thread David Griffith
I am locked completely out of a very expensive piece of kit. Has anybody else encountered this and is there is any solution for a Voiceover user? David Griffith -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: Problem with Logging On after Update.

2016-04-17 Thread David Griffith
annoying. David Griffith On 17/04/2016 16:32, Basioli George wrote: david this is your user account login and if you did a clean install you need to create a user login that is not the apple login On Apr 17, 2016, at 7:52 AM, David Griffith wrote: I have not been on my Mac much recently as I have

Re: Problem with Logging On after Update.

2016-04-17 Thread David Griffith
user name Group is. In my case it says David Griffith Group. 4. After pressing Vo Space on this group a password field will then appear. To see this with Voiceover you need to interact with the group 5. interact again with the edit field to enter your normal password. 6. I pressed Enter after

Re: Problem with Logging On after Update.

2016-04-17 Thread David Griffith
start Voiceover manually and log in using the instructions I posted earlier. Now the update has completed hopefully this problem will disappear. David Griffith On 17/04/2016 21:32, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: I have the latest update on my I Mac and Mac Mini and I have never seen the screen that David

Re: Edditting a document in textedit on my Mac

2016-05-09 Thread David Griffith
u can rename it to a file name of your choice. David Griffith On 09/05/2016 05:18, Helga Schreiber wrote: Hi all! How are you all? I have a question, I want to write in adocument on my mac using textedit guys. I started writing this documenton my windows computer, but everytime I want to edd

Is iBooks Unusable in El Capitan

2016-01-31 Thread David Griffith
have not sucdeededin getting into the reading scroll area even though I have restarted etc. Is this an experience others have had or is it only me. I have not done the clean install again but will not bother if this is a problem even after a clean install. David Griffith -- The following

Re: Does anyone know of a free rss reader for the Mac/

2016-01-31 Thread David Griffith
I use Vienna. David Griffith > On 31 Jan 2016, at 17:57, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Does any one know of a free and accessible rss reader for the Mac? > > ```Sent from my iPad > > -- > The following information is important for all m

Re: Does anyone know of a free rss reader for the Mac/

2016-01-31 Thread David Griffith
Sorry but where did you try to look? David Griffith > On 31 Jan 2016, at 21:15, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > i tried to look for it bt it is not there > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionarie

Re: Does anyone know of a free rss reader for the Mac/

2016-01-31 Thread David Griffith
I do not think it its available in the App Store. Many of the most useful Mac programs are not. I Googled Vienna RSS Reader and the first result you get is a link to the developers page and download links. David Griffith > On 31 Jan 2016, at 22:47, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionar

Re: Does anyone know of a free rss reader for the Mac/

2016-02-01 Thread David Griffith
n and Safari will open and load the page. I prefer this as I can use Reader on Safari. David Griffith On 01/02/2016 00:06, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries wrote: thanks i will look for it how is it with voice over -- The following information is important for all members of the

iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread David Griffith
issues whilst others appear to have exactly the same problem I have. Could I first of all confirm if anybody else, like me, has this problem even after a complete clean install? David Griffith -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread David Griffith
rely on Windows for ePub. David Griffith On 06/02/2016 12:54, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Although I think iBooks for Mac is really quite horrible, an unfinished counterpart to its far-superior iOS version, I didn’t have any trouble using it. Once you interact with the scroll area, you can stay

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread David Griffith
service as stuff is available as mobi as well as epub from that library. David Griffith 06/02/2016 20:35, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Yes, clean installs are best done clean. It’s a pain, but it’s always worth doing the clean part. There will be corrupt preferences and long-dead traces of

Is Microsoft Office unusable under El Capitan?

2016-02-07 Thread David Griffith
the rota selecting text is not a straightforward option. I am minded to remove Office from myMac and release the subscription for another machine, possibly a Windows Tablet. I thought I should check whether again these issues are peculiar to me or common to others. David Griffith -- The

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