Re: My first Mac.

2018-11-03 Thread Matt
The first thing I'd do, is change the vo keys, control-option-to the capsloc key. On 11/3/2018 7:43 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Most of the keystrokes have stayed the same with VoiceOver. They did switch around a couple items in High Sierra so that it is more difficult to adjust the voice

Re: My first Mac.

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Most of the keystrokes have stayed the same with VoiceOver. They did switch around a couple items in High Sierra so that it is more difficult to adjust the voice parameters with shortcuts. They essentially added the shift key to the combo which already used control-option-command with arrow

Re: My first Mac.

2018-11-03 Thread Oriol Gómez
do they let you use it without a screen yet? how many USB C ports does this thing have? On 11/3/18, Matt wrote: > Hi folks. > > I've  just ordered the new Mac mini. > > The 6core I7, 16 gigs of ram, and the 256 gig ssd. > > I'd love to use it for making music things with logic, but I'll get to >

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
jenny, ok, thats an interesting set of posts in there. I never had this problem either with the firewall on or off. I simply transferred my old Skype info from an older 10.6.8 machine and then installed it under 10.6.4 and then installed the application. Skype started up and worked fine. the

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
you have to enable some of the other events in the configuration panel. you have to add a growl notification to message (initial contact) otherwise it will not speak the event. once that is done and enabled, each chat will be spoken. -Eric On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Oyen
2 things, you need to set default display to speech. then in the application configuration list, choose Skype, enter it in the notifications pulldown, choose message (initial contact), mouse (or the VO equivalent) the + on the bottom of that screen, and choose growl notification. this will add a

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Well, I am not sure about this. Double tapping with two fingers near the top doesn't work for me, I may be doing it wrong though, because I am not that familiar with the trackpad yet. The skype problem is much more annoying though. Thanks. Nektarios. On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:10 PM, GEOFF WAALER

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread Jenny Wood
Eric, Hmmm, interesting. Unfortunately, I personally do not have enough experience with Skype in particular to be of much more use on the subject. However, it is something I am interested in getting up and running soon. I will have to think about trying an older version in the meantime.

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-26 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Nektarios, Make certain that trackpad commander is turned on. This can be accomplished in VO utility or by pressing control-option while rotating two fingers on the trackpad clockwise. rackpad commander can be disabled by pressing the vo keys and rotating counter clockwise. If you're like

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, Nektarios, you've come a long way in a short imte. First, to tell your batery level, press control+F8 and arrow twice left. To tell the date and time. press control+F8 and arrow once left. Now, when you first open the disk image for Skype, (and this applies to other aps also), you

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Ruud Bemelmans
Hello Nektarios, I bought a MacBook Pro a week a go myself and so far liking it. to answer your questions. VO-M-M brings you to the icons menu, you should get on the time machine icon, use VO-right or left arrows to cycle through the icons. Battery and clock are both in there. I believe time

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Thanks very much. I was able to move the app to the applications folder and use the control+f8 functions. I still have trouble connecting to skype though, no matter what I do. Will see. Nektarios. On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Well, Nektarios, you've come a long way in a

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Thank you. I will give it a try. Nektarios. On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Ruud Bemelmans wrote: Hello Nektarios, I bought a MacBook Pro a week a go myself and so far liking it. to answer your questions. VO-M-M brings you to the icons menu, you should get on the time machine icon, use

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Nektarios and all. First thing, welcome to the list, Nektarios! I hope you find this list as helpful as I have so far. I am new to the mac too, only having had mine less than a week now. Thankfully, I feel like I have made very good progress, owing to some very useful podcasts, google

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Jenny Wood
Thanks, Ray! I will have a look. Jenny On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: For getting rid of residual file data from deleted apps, I'm told that an app called Trashme will do it. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread GEOFF WAALER
To present yet another way of skinning this cat, using trackpad commander time and battery status are easily ascertainable by double tapping the top with two fingers and touching near the top on the right side of the trackpad. the clock is just to the right of battery status. Alternatively,

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Sarah Alawami
it will. I use it all the time and it works very very good! On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: For getting rid of residual file data from deleted apps, I'm told that an app called Trashme will do it. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Rose Morales
App trap will nuke an app's associated preferences as well. It's actually a preference pane. You run this file called AppTrap.prefPane, and it installs a preference pane in System Preferences. Then you restart your computer to activate the pref pane. To use App Trap, simply delete an app from

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Jenny Wood
Thank you so much for the suggestion. I have been looking for a way to cleanly remove applications when the occasion arises. Do you find trashme to be very speech friendly? I haven't played with it extensively as of yet, but at least at first glance, there appeared to be some unlabeled

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Rafaela Freundt
Hi, you have to download it. it is free, just look for it on google. Rafaela El 25/10/2010, a las 19:04, Jenny Wood escribió: Thanks, Rose. Is App Trap something that already exists on the mac, or does it have to be downloaded separately? Jenny On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Rose

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Jenny Wood
Did it, got it, and have already used it successfully! Thank you all so much!! Jenny On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: Hi, you have to download it. it is free, just look for it on google. Rafaela El 25/10/2010, a las 19:04, Jenny Wood escribió: Thanks, Rose. Is App

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Jenny Wood
I have also been experiencing the same problem accessing Skype on my macbook pro. The error says it is unable to connect and to please check your network settings. I did a little digging around on google and came across the following. It does in fact, appear to be a common problem.

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, growl don't work for me. Every single time a contact comes online, I just hear the noise and then growl says, has come online but it doesn't ever tell me who comes on or goes offline. Also, aint Growl supposed to tell you when somebody downloads a file from your drop box? Anyhow, the

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi Ray, Where did you get growl? I recently discovered that the version that adium offers to install is outdated. The newest version from growl.info fixes several annoyances for me. This might help you. Justin On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Well, growl don't work for me.

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I got it from googling growl. I think drop box installed it without my knowing it; but, I ran the uninstaller and got rid of it because of the issues I mentioned before. Suppose I wanted to reinstall Growl, though, What do I open after mounting and opening the disk image? Also, do I leave

Re: My first mac. Questions.

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Oh, the version I had was the latest version, which, I think, was 2.1 or something. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: Hi Ray, Where did you get growl? I