[access-uk] Re: MacBook Air for beginners: was I Tunes

  • From: Carol Pearson <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:47:07 +0100

I'm reassured to hear that and I'm prepared to spend time taking a look at the 
Mac and more detail and making a really considered idecision.

Carol P
Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch

On 16 Jun 2013, at 09:47 PM, Terry Clasper <terry.clasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> HI.
> The important thing to understand here is that pages and numbers on the mac 
> is a completely different experience than on the IPHone.
> All I can say here is that for me the move to the macbook air is probably the 
> most technologically ensuring thing i've done in ages, and whilst there is  
> for sure a considerable learning curve, providing your open minded and 
> prepared to accept very different concepts to windows in the end it pays off!
> 
> On 16 Jun 2013, at 17:58, Carol Pearson <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andy,
>> 
>> I think Pages and Numbers are  the two applications that I am most concerned 
>> about. I would advise you to ask all the questions about these And be sure 
>> to take a spreadsheet and document of your own to play with and make sure 
>> you get the answers before you sink your money into buying a MacBook only to 
>> find that you can't do what you want.
>> 
>> I have tried Pages on the phone and also Numbers with no real very good 
>> success. Well, they certainly haven't been good enough to persuade me that 
>> that's how I want to work. They may be better on the Mac itself, and that is 
>> something I do not know, and this is where you do need to discover for 
>> yourself.
>> 
>> Carol P
>> Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch
>> 
>> On 16 Jun 2013, at 11:41 AM, "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks David - One thing puzzling me is that the new MacBook Air is called 
>>> just that, but it appears, so is the older model. A bit confusing when 
>>> shopping!
>>>  
>>> I do all my banking and other financial stuff online, can I expect the 
>>> MacBook with VO to give me all the accessability I  currently get when 
>>> using JFW? -
>>>  
>>> Andy
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: David Weston
>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:45 AM
>>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: I Tunes
>>> 
>>> Hi Andy 
>>>   
>>> I am using a macbook air, to tern on the voice, press FM AND Command with 
>>> F5 and the voice will come on. To learn the keys press, the VO with K and 
>>> then you can go around the keyboard and learn what they are and do. Press 
>>> escape to get out of the keyboard help. David.
>>> On 15 Jun 2013, at 20:57, "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Colin - If you are a JAWS user, I'd strongly suggest listening to the 
>>>> 2-part Fscast made by Jonathan Mosen, available from the Freedom 
>>>> Scientific website. It helped me a great deal -
>>>>  
>>>> Andy
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Colin Phelan
>>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:39 PM
>>>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: I Tunes
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks Darren, sorted, now all I have to do is figure out how to use it
>>>> Best
>>>> Colin
>>>>  
>>>> From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>> [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf OfDarran Ross
>>>> Sent: 15 June 2013 17:03
>>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: I Tunes
>>>> Colin, go to
>>>> www.ninite.com
>>>> and find iTunes on there. just follow the prompts and It'll be a doddle, 
>>>> honest!
>>>> Darran
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Colin Phelan
>>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:43 PM
>>>> Subject: [access-uk] I Tunes
>>>>  
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> Could someone please assist.
>>>> I wish to download I Tunes and for whatever reason I seem to be going 
>>>> around in circles.
>>>> A direct link to download would be very much appreciated.
>>>> Many Thanks
>>>> Colin  
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>>> 
> 

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