Actually iTunes is usable to some extent--honest. You just have to remember where you are on the screen. Mind you, there are alternative players that I mostly use now. iTunes is somethingI use mainly fr when I want music that's playing selected for my LiveJournal entries that I do on this machine. Jane On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over > heavily > but I did give Itunes a try. Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a > church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco > framework in order for Voice Over to work. Itunes and the ports of > Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just flat > don't work in Voice Over. > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote: >> What are you talking about? >> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd playing, >> cd/ >> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing, and to >> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100% >> accessible. There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast >> creation as well. If there's stuff you can't do on the mac, there's >> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it. >> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but there's >> always workarounds. The shell prompt (they call it terminal) works, >> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry >> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine. >> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video >> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon DVD >> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers >> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text using the >> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/ >> better to use. I'd suggest going into your local apple store, >> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not >> usable. I think you might be surprised at how much you can do >> with it. > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEL5mgWSjv55S0LfERA3FfAJ0R6Ue8TWie8EDeidoFdBORXsZJ+QCfahU+ > zwlPhrhiMU9DXWi6fubcNLU= > =Njcl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
