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Communacation

Another post from me yet again. So before I go into detail about other apps, let me talk about how certain apps talk with each other.

My favorite thing about this whole MAC thing is how well apps talk to each other. A good example of this is in contacts. If you know the birthdate of a certain person, you have to know the year they were born in, put the info on their contact card and it will show up in calendar.That is nice, no more forgetting when important people's birthdays are. I love this and the fact that it syncs up with my iPhone and iPad is great.

The next big thing is in mail. If you have a person's email on their card, it will be filled in for you. When you go to send an email to someone, just start typing their name or email address in the to field and it will be filled in automatically for you.Once again this works on the iPhone and the iPad. I also love this feature too.

Mail and calendar really do not interact much, but they will when needed to. I know that some are reading this thinking, why do I need all of those apps? Well the MAC comes with them, so there is no way of getting around it.

I know it may seem like a pain, but it really isn't. Besides if you have an iPhone, iPad, or both it is a lifesaver.

Till next week. Enjoy.

Voiceover and Facebook

I am back again. Tonight I want to talk about voiceover and Facebook. It is worth mentioning that I was never able to use regular Facebook until my MAC computer. Before it I used the Facebook mobile website. Mobile sites worked very well on my PC, so I would use them. What mobile sites do, is that all the pictures and difficult things to navigate are taken out. The website is just stripped down to just text which makes it easier to navigate.

So I was very excited to use the real Facebook and not just the mobile site. I just figured this out on my own. I wanted to comment back to someone who commented on one of my posts. All that has to be done is you need to type in the edit box and then hit the enter button. Yes it really is that simple. There are pop-up boxes for friend requests, messages, and notifications. Next to each one of them there is a number of how many of them one has. To click on the one you need, just go over it and press the voiceover (VO) keys and the space bar to select it.

I have not done anything with the friend requests, because I do not get many of them. When I do, I usually take care of it on my iPhone.

As for the messages, you need to to select send new message if that is what you want to do. You will need to type the person's full name and depending on if there is more than one person with that first name, you will have to type the first letter of their last name. If you want to send it to multiple people, just separate each name with a comma, no spaces. Once people are typed in hit the enter key. Type in the edit box the message and then press the send button by pressing the VO keys and the space bar. To read a message, select who sent it to you and click on their name by hitting the VO keys and the space bar. Unfortunately messages cannot be deleted from regular Facebook. Well there is a way, but I do not know how to do it.

Notifications are the easiest to navigate. You just need to click on notifications and then scroll to the notification that is wanted and click on it. It will tell you if the notification is read and if you want to turn off notifications from a certain group or a certain app.

I hope this helps some what. I will type more next week. Till then.

Voiceover With Safari

I am back. This time I want to talk about voiceover and Safari.

First let me explain what Safari is. It is the web browser on the MAC computer. PCs have Internet Explorer and MACs have Safari. There is not a lot of differences between the two. The only difference is one is MAC's version and the other is PC's. It works just like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

You can set up whatever homepage that is desired. Whether you want Google or Facebook or anything else.

To interact with the html you have to hit the VO (voiceover) keys, the shift key, and the down arrow. This will allow you to enter and interact with the web page. Once entered use the arrow keys to navigate around the page.

If you ever need it, go to the help menu. You get there by hitting the VO keys and the letter h. Once there scroll down to the Getting Started guide.

If you want to get to the bookmarks, you will need to go to the menu. Go to the menu by hitting the VO keys and the letter m. This will bring up the menu then use the right arrow till you come to the option that says bookmarks. Once there use the down arrow till you come to the web page you want and then press enter.

To add a bookmark to a desired page, press the command key and the letter l. This will take you to the address bar. Scroll left and use the VO keys and the space bar to open the menu. Scroll down till you get to the option that says add bookmark. Once on that option press the VO keys and the space bar to select it.

Ok that is a ton of info for one post. I do not want to make anyone's head explode. I will explain more next week. Till then.

More Voiceover Stuff

So I am back. Last time I blogged, I talked about voiceover keys. Don't forget when I mention voiceover I will refer to it as VO.

So I am trying to make this as simple as possible. The MAC is really easy to use as I am finding out. I go to do certain things and usually what I try the first time works.

So today I am going to talk about the Dock. This is along the bottom of the screen. It is kind of like the start menu on PCs. This is where all of the things that are opened are. You can set-up the Dock to look like you want it. I have 17 things in my Dock.

To get to the Dock, you need to press the VO keys and the letter d. This will take you directly to the Dock. To navigate through items in the Dock, you just use the left and right arrow keys. Once you get to what you want or need, you just press the space bar to open it. Yes it really is that simple.

Till next week, later.