heads up for chuck.. the audio wont play from about 11 minutes into the file. This happens with both the itunes and site downloads of the file.

stream of it works just fine `

Keep up the good work….

I do have to say that I went back to Safari 3 after trying Safari 4 because I found the loading indicators so obnoxious.

John

Just to let you kn ow that when I tried to enter the MacVoices website from iTunes I get a malware warning from Safari 3. This also happened when I tried simply typing the address into the address bar, it did not happen when I tried entering through the archive.
Anyway, the reason I was poking around your site was so that I could thank you for bringing up the topic of accessibility on the Mac. I know that as the ‘baby boomers’ age this is going to be be a growing issue and as you will see from the note I sent to Shelly, which I will paste below, this is one of the Mac’s strong points.
Thanks,

John
Hi Shelley,
As one who often listens to Mac voices and is also visually handicapped I was pleased to hear the issue of accessibility being discussed. As one who uses Mac’s exclusively I know that Apple has gone to a good deal of effort to improve the accessibility features of it’s operating system in recent years. I do not use an iPhone, but I spend a good deal of time on the Mac. In the last year or so be addition of the ‘Alex’ voice and making iTunes accessible to voiceover were big steps forward.
I am also somewhat familiar with the community of the blind having worked on the state consumer advisory board for vocational rehabilitation and having attended a summer session at the local school for the blind.
It seems to me that we in the Mac community are not doing a particularly good job of discussing the Macintosh’s accessibility features or promoting them. I would like to see this change. I think Apple has done an incredible job of making improvements in this area and in providing them , not only free,but with very little self-promotion. I suppose that Apple has a dedicated team working with the visually handicapped to have gotten things so right. I have recently, for the first time, experimented with Windows XP and Jaws. I cannot believe how poorly they preform. It was like going back to system 7, and I am shocked by the amount of money that individuals and institutions have shelled out over the years for Jaws. If they only knew! On the other hand I do not know how well some of the other features such as braille work . Perhaps you do? In any case for those with limited vision I would think that encourage them to use the Mac would be doing them a big favor. Would you agree.
I use a Mac Mini with two monitors and I am writing this using Dictate 9 and Alex is my guide. As my vision worsens I regard the Mac as a life preserver and want to encourage them to continue development. Do you think the time is right to write into places where the visually handicapped tend to go and encourage switching? I know how isolated and conservative the blind community tends to be. Lack of access to information and often not able to afford wasting large amounts of money coupled with the time it takes to learn new ways of doing things tends to discourage experimentation.
In any case I think what you are doing is important and I intend to check out the sites you mentioned in the interview with Chuck.

Sincerely,

John Goray

PS – just registered, long time listener, thanks for the incomprehensible password – thank goodness for 1Password.

Keep up the good work and the community support. We should support such companies and recognize their good works.

I’ve since purchase textExpander for myself and find that very useful as well.

Sincerely
Mohan Paul

SupportCasts BusySync

I am intrigued with BusyCal. I have to say that BusySync has been flawless here in our home office with 3 Macs, and 2 iPhones.

Larry “Sundog” Pollock

wow…

One way to guarantee annoying your employees, ban them from using cool and useful technologies. This is exactly what Jim Hereford from NextSentry is suggesting. In his podcast with MacVoices he describes the risk with mass storage devices being used……

Is there a way to make Adobe Garamond Expert work with Mac 10.5?
When I ask the aces on my campus, they just tell me it’s a “known issue.”

Thanks for any help.

Bob Glenn
glenn@utk.edu

http://c-command.com/blog/2006/07/07/setting-up-a-spam-filtering-drone/

Just some friendly advice of a loyal MacVoices listener. I hope you can use it to your advantage.

Ewen Chia has come out with a product called “Secret Affiliate Weapon”. Recently I decided to purchase this product. Let me say that I was completely amazed at the value you get from 10 bucks….

Global Domains International or GDI: More than just Web Hosting. It is true that GDI is the facilitator and owner of .WS web domains around the globe, but it is more….

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me …

Every manufacturer has people who find their products easy to set up and configure, and others who can’t tell top from bottom. I’ve personally had Apple’s setup wizards completely hose an Airport network (like when the Express first came out and I told the wizard to setup a WDS; took me 20 minutes to restore my network after it completely screwed up the settings in the Extreme base station and hosed the Express so bad I had to do a hard reset).

For those of us who have a clue, Linksys is a fine alternative, especially for those people who are switchers. And I’ve had networking products from two other companies that had Java based firmware upgrades that didn’t require a Windows machine: Dayna and Intel. Copy the file to a directory on the router, reboot the router, and the boot process uncompressed an installed the firmware upgrade.

Sticking with all Apple may be good advice for the non-computer literate or first-timer, but then no matter how good the setup software is, those people are likely to get into trouble. Does grandma know what DHCP or DNS is?

I love MacVoices, I respect Bob LeVitus and his consulting firm but I just had to leave a comment on this podcast. Of course I am probably not the target audience so take my comments in the context of a Solaris and Network admin.

Respectfully,
Dave Stempnakowski

In November I changed my web hosting service after two years at a webhost with zero support! Fine, I suppose, for experts but not for newbies at web-related stuff like me. The new host (with excellent support services) smoothly transferred all the stuff from the website at the old hosting service to themselves…but then needed me to change the DNS addresses of my domain name to point to the new addresses. And therewith began a Kafkian trip. Thought my domain name was registered with Joker but found out not true anymore. I tried to contact the so-called email support without receiving any response. Finally found a phone number and called that. Was told that yes, since middle of 2004 they had transferred Registrar to their affiliated one, BookMyName. Went to their website but it said I had no domain name registered with them. Whois said otherwise. Back and forth in ever more surreal emails where they were obviously making fun of me. Another phone call. Finally got an email giving me login and password info to manage my domain name where I succeeded in transferring DNS addresses. Then decided to transfer Registrars too to my new host while I was at it and that worked.

Then I noticed I had also registered a .eu domain name and the game started all over again. Nightmare! After some more back and forth I got wise and posted a complaint at the ICANN site. After two days I received login and password for the .eu domain name. Hope to get outta there soonest.

The Take Control of Domain Names ebook shall be my evening’s reading.