Re: Windows 7 end of support (was Re: which email to use)

2016-06-02 Thread David via Talk
Besides, who knows if by then, Win10 will no longer be the "bid deal of the day"? XP stayed in business, whilst we saw Vista and Win7 come, being debated, and finally being replaced by Win8, and Win8.1. Today everyone is screaming for us to update to Win10, or our computers will suffer a painfu

Re: anti virus

2016-05-29 Thread David via Talk
Hello again, Did check my details, and here is a couple of notes on the cable you need. The cable is of the type CAT-5E crossover. The reason why your normal cable won't work, is that the switch will act as a extremely simplified computer on the network. The CROSSOVER term, has to do with

Re: turn internet on or off.

2016-05-29 Thread David via Talk
ll respond differently. it is easier to open a context menu on the icon where it will show enable or disable from the list. at least you won't have to buy any switches. http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/18/turn-the-internet-connection-on-or-off/ -Original Message----- From: David via Talk Sent:

Re: anti virus

2016-05-29 Thread David via Talk
Although I cannot help you with the AntiVirus question, I am going to reply on your Hardware issue. You asked if there does exist a piece of hardware, to turn on and off the connection between your computer and the modem? Sure, there does. I was in a similar search last year, and found several

Re: truVoice multilingual

2016-04-10 Thread David via Talk
Josh, Are you actually able to have these voices installed and operating with WE? Or, are you just basing your utterence on some promises from the web. I, along with several others, cannot seem to get things going. Have downloaded the file, installed it - although Win7 64bit complained a bit

OT: Donald Duck and his computer

2016-03-19 Thread David via Talk
Even Donald Duck has decided to go modern, and get a computer. Like the rest of us, he seems to drag it around from one room to the other. Now, they simply just nickname him: McDonald. Sorry for the Off-Topic joke. ___ Any views or opinions presented

Extended Dictionary - Release Note

2016-02-29 Thread David via Talk
To all current and potential users og the Extended Dictionary. I want to inform you all, that the newest version - 0.69.5 - now is available from App Central. It is important to notice, that your current version will expire tonight. Unless you download and install the newest version, you will

Extended Dictionary, new version is ready

2016-02-26 Thread David via Talk
To all the users of the Extended Dictionary package. I am glad to inform you that the new version is ready for distribution. This will be version 0.69.5. Please be informed, that the previous version will expire on February 29. There is no other way to renew your license, but to install the new

Re: vlc media player

2016-02-23 Thread David via Talk
Not using the VLC software, but my one suggestion would be for you to maybe try to route the mouse to somewhere else. If the mouse sits focused on your timer, that could cause WE to continiously read it. So try hit Numpad-Home, and see if that fixes the trouble. The other, more obvious solutio

Re: malware bytes accessibility

2016-02-22 Thread David via Talk
Just for info. It recently was claimed from some source, that MalwareBytes has experienced a security flaw. Although they are aware of the issue, they could not at the point of the message spreading, tell anything about when the issue would be fixed. I don't mean to discourage any usage of t

Jarte and PDF?

2016-02-18 Thread David via Talk
If memory serves me right, a few days ago someone on the list claimed they used Jarte for their PDF files. If this is so, I am confused. I have downloaded and installed the software from their official webpage, so would expect it to be the latest version. But I cannot seem to make it open any

Re: converting audio cassettes to mp3

2016-02-05 Thread David via Talk
I have used the MP3DirectCut for editing audio files in the past. It is a quite easy piece of software, and does a fantastic job on the areas it covers, such as cutting, pasting and splitting or joining MP3 files. It does not, though, have any noise reduction features, or any other sound fixing

Re: re good adobe acrobat pdf alternatives tothat work really well with window eyes 9.2

2015-12-03 Thread David via Talk
Depends on what you want to do. But one alternative would be QRead. David On 12/4/2015 6:14 AM, Gary Melconian via Talk wrote: Hello I would like to know if there are any good alternatives to adobe acrobat professional that work really well with window eyes 9.2. I would truely appreciate any

Re: Ebay blank messages

2015-12-01 Thread David via Talk
Although it's been a while since I last did any EBaying, let me just throw one idea on the board. May it happen, that you did some shopping with a company located - say - in China? The message could be written in a non-latin language, with no real letters showing up. Had something like that ha

Funny: Electronic Translators - put them to a test

2015-12-01 Thread David via Talk
Just for the fun of it all: A while back, the local radio station over here, decided to test the reliability of the electronic translator of Google. The idea went like this. If the translator is all reliable, you should be able to enter a text in one language,have it translated into another,

Re: two possibly dumb questions

2015-11-10 Thread David via Talk
For your first question, App Central is a sub-devision of the AISquared website. The direct link to it, is: https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/ Scroll down to the table on the page, and choose the category for what apps you want to read more about. Then, you can open an individual website

Re: Graphic labeling. help!

2015-11-08 Thread David via Talk
Interesting to see you call for such a raphic-numbering feature. A few years back, I called for the same. I too, for one, would have liked the graphics on the screen to be numbered. Like when you are encountering a screen, where you do not necessarily know what the individual graphic should be

Re: Virtual View User's Guide

2015-11-06 Thread David via Talk
And just as a curosity: Did you know, these people that does the actual solving for you, are named "Computers". That was the original meaning of the word computer. Since we now aday let a machine do a number of tasks for us, we have named that machine COMPUTER. But that is merely because it ov

Re: Virtual View 5.0: what's this garbage?

2015-11-06 Thread David via Talk
Lou, It is not garbage at all. It is the music sheet. Try to play it on your guitar, and let the computer read it out loud to you alongside, and you now can release the new album. It sure will hit the market like an elephant... Ha, ha, ha. Just kidding. As a matter of fact, I have seen the ex

Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0

2015-11-05 Thread David via Talk
Windows 7 Pro, 64Bit. On 11/5/2015 8:22 PM, Marc Solomon via Talk wrote: Martin and others who are not able to get the Virtual View OCR function to work correctly on images or image based PDFs, what operating system are you using? Thanks, Marc -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-

Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0

2015-11-05 Thread David via Talk
Aaron, and the rest. I have been using numerous keyboards up through the years, and as you Aaron suggests, the PrintScreen usually is just right of F12, and on a standard keyboard, that would make it the farmost left of the 3 keys above the 6-pack. Yet, here is another issue. On the laptop I

A Lack In Virtual View

2015-11-05 Thread David via Talk
It is great that the new feature of OCR has been implemented in Virtual View. I am still struggling to have it recognize a number of files, but that might be a matter of learning to use it. Yet, it seems there is a lack, or at least I have a strong WANTING for a setting in the app. It is told,

Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0

2015-11-04 Thread David via Talk
Now, you only need to have a feature for us to fill in the OCR'ed image, in cases when we receive a form in a PDF format, for instance. Too many public services over here, now aday, demands you fill in PDF formatted forms, which then have to either be printed or returned electronically. If now

Re: new ssd

2015-10-29 Thread David via Talk
Josh, Great to hear your new SSD works well, and that you got the transfer done in a swift. Just for a friendly reminder - though you may already know all of this - be sure to turn off all disk defragmenting software you have, or any other excessive disk writing software. Search the net, if y

Re: Info on developing accessible web pages

2015-10-25 Thread David via Talk
Thanks, will take a look, and forward it to the designers.On 10/25/2015 11:15 PM, Karyn Campbell via Talk wrote: David, Here is a link that will prove useful. It gives the standards at a glance and there is more technical information behind each listed standard. This works for nontechies and te

Info On Developing Accessible Webpages?

2015-10-25 Thread David via Talk
I have a situation here, where a local website is totally inaccessible with a screen reader. Since it is in a Locale language, I am ready to say it would be of little meaning to provide any link for the page, besides, you would need some login info to get there. OK, still I wonder if someone co

Re: Red Hot News from Ai Squared!

2015-10-19 Thread David via Talk
Only thing I don't get, is why you would like to put any kind of teaser out like this. Seems your screen reader needs more attention, and things need a brush. Then to flush the market with a ton of teasers, "look what we may bring soon", "Just wait till next year", and so forth, seems no less t

Preventing emails being received from list when on holiday

2015-09-11 Thread David via Talk
Hi can anyone tell me please if there is a simple way to stop emails being received while I am on a two week holiday or is the best way to unsubscribe and then subscribe again on my return. If the answer is to unsubscribe and then to subscribe again can someone remind me how to do it please.

Re: Ebay and running Searches

2015-08-10 Thread David via Talk
Try this: The first combobox on the screen, is the one where you fine-tune what group to search in. Or, should we say, what category. Nevertheless, the Editbox for the search entry, is located just prior to this combobox. So, when the page opens, hit C to go to the first combobox. Press Enter

Re: Is this a paid upgrade?

2015-07-28 Thread David via Talk
Hi Mark are you able to tell me the cost of upgrading from version 8.4 to 9.2 please. Dave Mawson On 27/07/2015 18:17, Marc Solomon via Talk wrote: Window-Eyes 9.2 is a paid upgrade. In the US, the upgrade price is $49. But, if you have an active Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA), the upg

Help please to change default browser

2015-07-23 Thread David via Talk
Hi all I have accidentally made Firefox my default browser when I want it to be IE. Can someone please tell me step by step how to change it back to IE. Dave Mawson On 22/07/2015 04:34, Sunshine via Talk wrote: you can use an extenchen called import expor ___

Re: LibreOffice

2015-06-24 Thread David via Talk
last time I tested, NOT AT ALL. Never have got either openOffice, nor LibraOffice to perform with WinEyes. I am currently only on WE8.4, so of course newer WE versions have improved the accesibility, I am afraid you are wasting your time and energy. David On 6/24/2015 5:19 PM, David Gerry vi

Re: Great accessible search site

2015-06-23 Thread David via Talk
How do you invoke DDG please. Dave Mawson On 23/06/2015 11:11, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote: Looks like there is a load more item near the bottom of the results. Just arrow to it and more results load. Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825

Re: Reading DAISY packages on the PC with Win-Eyes

2015-06-14 Thread David via Talk
What are daisy packages? Dave Mawson On 13/06/2015 14:18, john s via Talk wrote: Louis, I tried WE with FS Reader and it works well. earlier, gosselin_louis via Talk wrote: JAWS people have their FS reader to open and read daisy packages on the PC. It's a part of the regular JAWS instillat

Re: ebay.

2015-06-10 Thread David via Talk
OK, then. Reason why I asked, is that I was into a similar issue when I tested the WE9Beta. When I unloaded WE, and then loaded NVDA, I was able to complete both my reading and bidding. Had to do so several times, through the short moment I tested WE9, and that was the first time I ever saw t

Re: ebay.

2015-06-10 Thread David via Talk
Does this happen with NVDA as well? David On 6/10/2015 1:26 PM, michael's mail box via Talk wrote: Okay Chris i am not hearing adds but just WE saying over and over about so many days and so many hours what ever that is about. I can tab around but We just keeps yapping but in saying this when

Ripping music CD's with windows Media Player

2015-05-21 Thread David via Talk
Hi all, I have repped many CD's with Windows Media Player but it must be a year since I did the last one and I have forgotten what to do. Can someone give me a step by step reminder please? Dave Mawson. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this e

Thunderbird again

2015-05-19 Thread David via Talk
H/i a few minutes ago I sent an email about sending emails, someone kindly replied but somehow I have deleted the message. I had tried what I remember it says which was. 1. If including more than one address in the TO field I pressed enter after the first address then typed the second address. T

Thunderbird

2015-05-19 Thread David via Talk
Hi Thunderbird users. So far I have only been sending emails to one address. If I want to send an email to more than one address how do I get thunderbird to recognise that I am typeing a second address. dave Mawson ___ Any views or opinions presente

Re: Casper 8.0

2015-05-13 Thread David via Talk
Casper 8 is accessible well enough. however, if you are going to migrate from a standard Harddisk and into an SSD, I found a far better software, which also is accessible. Your whole migration will be done in a few clicks. The software is called: Paragon Migrate OS To SSD, and I do believe

Re: Windows 7 and ipconfig command

2015-05-03 Thread David via Talk
The good news is, that there exists one way of ensuring nothing is on the command line, prior to your typing the EXIT command. Simply just press the Escape key, type EXIT, and hit Enter.The Escape key, clears the commandline, no matter what is on it at the moment. For different reasons, I find

Screen Reader compatible Keyboards. Was: Re: speaking of Dell computers...

2015-04-26 Thread David via Talk
Rick and the rest, This discussion, altogether reminds me the one that every now and than, has popped up around USB NumPads. Rick, how much we would love a list provided, for all keyboards on the market, and their compatibility, it will never work. I am going to deal with but a couple of reas

Re: speaking of Dell computers...

2015-04-24 Thread David via Talk
May be that he has to use the FN-key, along with the F-keys. For instance, n-F12. Have a pair of eyes check the keyboard, or let him call the place where he bought the computer, even the manufacturers customer line, and ask for assistance. David On 4/24/2015 1:13 AM, Carol and Roger via Talk

Disk Recovery, Please help

2015-04-15 Thread David via Talk
Not sure what has happened on my system this morning. I had it up running altogether last night. But this morning, the system had restarted itself. I guessed it was due to an automated update of the OS. Different reasons made the system run overnight, something I every now and then have to do,

Re: Cereproc voices.

2015-04-15 Thread David via Talk
Yes, I hav one of their American voices here. She sounds OK enough, is OK responsive for certain tasks, but haven't found her sufficient for daily usage True, have'nt forced myself to do so eiher. What I did find a /ttiny bit troublesome, is that the speech quality may vary a bit, depending o

Re: New window eyes list member

2015-04-12 Thread David via Talk
Just a slight correction. You don't need a pair of eyes. Simply start NVDA, on top of Window-Eyes. Then open the Window-Eyes control panel by Ctrl-Backslash, go to Devices, expand it, and choose Synthesizer. Tab over to the list of synths, and try change to Sapi, Microsoft, or the ESpeak se

Re: latest window-eyes and ebay problem.

2015-03-31 Thread David via Talk
Just wanted to chime in with a tiny suggestion. Don't know if it will solve your current issue. But EBay has several websites, basically attached to different regions around the globe. In general though, your logging into one of their sites, also will entitle you to the buying across the whole

Re: Auto sizing Excel columns and rows

2015-03-30 Thread David via Talk
Hi I understand the instructions that have been given here but I dont understand what is meant by "the row or column will auto size to fit the content of cells." Can you explain it please. Dave Mawson On 30/03/2015 14:23, Carol and Roger via Talk wrote: I am using Excel 2007, but most likely

Re: Vocalizer and Vocalizer Expressive synthesizers question

2015-03-28 Thread David via Talk
Rod, Below is a message that Chris sent to the list only two days ago, and which should answer your question quite to the point, I believe. Hth, David On 3/26/2015 1:33 PM, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote: Hi, The older vocalizer engine does not support pitch. Vocalizer Expressive does. Yo

Re: Cap enhanced app

2015-03-26 Thread David via Talk
Yes, Rick. All the feature handling of a voice, is done inside the synth engine itself, and has nothing to do with any hardware or driver of the computer. True, sometimes disabling certain features of your hardware, like sound card enhancements, will improve your speech responsiveness or quali

Re: CapEnhance Idea

2015-03-26 Thread David via Talk
Basically, this discussion is moving more into a level that would fit the Scripting list the more. But one issue is that you don't know whether a synth has pitch support, until you have tried it out, or have access to the specs of that particular synth. Of course, your script can try to set the

Re: Cap enhanced app

2015-03-26 Thread David via Talk
Rick, The fact that a sound card can play music, has absolutely nothing to do with its capabilities of adjusting the pitch of a voice. Playing music, the sound card merely plays back a pre-recorded sound file. The sound file can be pitch-adjusted, since you can affect what bits are sent to the

Re: Cap enhanced app

2015-03-26 Thread David via Talk
Well, Rod, if you have never heard about any synths not supporting pitch changing, then your dreamy days are long gone. As a matter of fact, there is a load of synths on the market, who do not support any pitching. The whole series of Scansoft voices, and some of the SAPI voices from other manu

Re: introducing AT prime software with window eyes

2015-03-18 Thread David via Talk
OK, just gave that podcast a listen. Sure sounds interesting. Yet, I strongly disagree in a solution that requires you to be online, even if it is only for launching it. This kind of solution, is so deeply digging into the way people will get access to their screen, that they will become more

Re: Check boxes

2015-03-17 Thread David via Talk
Have to confirm this. The Windows Updater is a good example. Several netshops do exhibit the same, in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. And several of Microsoft's own installation routines. Even, try running CCleaner, and try to check/uncheck anything there. WE has a mile or two to go yet, be

Re: Open Book has its own built in speech. You can not use Window Eyes with it. Only advantage to using Open Book is in my opinion a better user interface versus off the shelf OCR programs. I have en

2015-03-17 Thread David via Talk
OmniPage has had the AutoDirection feature for quite a few years. Abby does not have the same quality on this matter, at least in version 9 - cannot speak for later versions. David On 3/17/2015 8:26 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk wrote: Excuse me, but I really have to take this opportunity to ask

Re: Extended Dictionary and WE upgrades

2015-03-11 Thread David via Talk
Reports tell the Extended Dictionary to work at least under WE9.0. I don't have that version or the newest, so cannot confirm at the moment. Since you state you uninstalled, please try re-downloading and installing anew. Report back to me, should you have further issues with the app. I might ha

Re: ClamWin

2015-03-09 Thread David via Talk
When I got my current laptop approx 18 months ago it came preloaded with AVG, it does not seem to have caused any problems. Dave Mawson On 07/03/2015 19:08, brendoncdono...@icloud.com via Talk wrote: Hi, do not use AVG with window eyes! It has removed files that are required for window eyes t

Re: ClamWin

2015-03-09 Thread David via Talk
When I got my current lap top around 18 months ago it came pre loaded with AVG. It does not seem to have caused me any problems. Dave Mawson s On 07/03/2015 19:08, brendoncdono...@icloud.com via Talk wrote: Hi, do not use AVG with window eyes! It has removed files that are required for windo

Urgent File Recovery

2015-03-06 Thread David via Talk
-- DavidListers, OOPS. Some files - actually a whole folder - accidentially got deleted from my system. Win7, 64bit. No, it is not in the Recycle Bin, so cannot recover it from there. This just happened, and chances are that the info still will be available on the drive. Does any of you have

Re: Caps Pitch Control

2015-03-06 Thread David via Talk
Rick, Sorry. But if you don't want VBScripts, for whatever reason, remember that you can use any other Com-supporting scripting language for scripting WE. You state you are doing computer development, so should not be much for you to script what you want. The CapBeeper script - I do believe -

Re: Say Cap Doesnt Work for individual letters

2015-03-05 Thread David via Talk
Just wondering, why do you not use the CapBeeper app, from App Central? Sorry if you have told earlier, but haven't followed the thread so closely. When comes to testing voices, I am afraid you will have to either get in touch with someone who owns the actual voice, and have them record a soun

Re: test message using Dragon naturally speaking with window eyes

2015-02-28 Thread David via Talk
Why not just go to ninite.com and download it from there. You get it as clean as you can. David On 2/28/2015 3:38 AM, Amy Gordon via Talk wrote: Can someone send me the link again to download Microsoft security essentials without the ads please? Thaks On 2/27/15, brendoncdono...@icloud.co

Re: OT: headphone jack in laptops

2015-02-26 Thread David via Talk
Definitly sounds like your headset plugs would be slightly out of range. The idea of an extension chord, is a good one, and has actually helped here too a couple of times. As stated, make sure it is a Stereo cord. If the general problem is that your plug gets inserted too far into the outlet o

Re: which version of windows should I get

2015-02-26 Thread David via Talk
I don't know where the idea that Win7 has ended comes from, but can confirm that late as yesterday, my computer received "Important Updates" from Microsoft that needed to be installed. That is most definitely on a Win7 machine. If they still send out updates, why would anyone so stubbornly tell

Re: which version of windows should I get

2015-02-25 Thread David via Talk
Well, for your information, Windows 9 simply does not work at all. Reason? It does not exist. Microsoft lost their abacus when they were to release the next version after Windows 8.1, and hence found it much easier to start from afresh, which means Windows 10. Smiles. Just wanted to clarify t

Re: Message Rules for this lits

2015-02-18 Thread David via Talk
That's right. For some untold reason, AISquared made two different addresses going to the one and same list. I was puzzled myself why they did not just stick with one, and made that replace the old. It took some time to realize that also participants seem to be a bit confused. Some of us are us

Re: Scrubbed Attachment Message

2015-02-12 Thread David via Talk
Noticed the same. And just like you, was puzzled as to what it all means. Never seen it on any of the mailinglists I am subscribed to, not even on Mailman lists. Whether this is just by coincidence or if there is some setting from the way AISquared has set up things, I am not the one to determi

Re: windows media player

2015-02-10 Thread David via Talk
Windows media player? Different versions have different keystrokes! We need the version number? Thanks. Warm Regards, Brendon Donohue On 10 Feb 2015, at 10:16 pm, David via Talk wrote: Hi all, I record a lot of college lectures on my dictaphone and then transfer them to my PC. However when I play

windows media player

2015-02-10 Thread David via Talk
Hi all, I record a lot of college lectures on my dictaphone and then transfer them to my PC. However when I play them on my PC using windows media player I cant work out how to rewind, fast forward or pause. Can anyone help please. Dave Mawson ___

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