Re: Reinstall Tiger - get rid of crud?
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:37:30 +0100
On 2008-10-12 00:08:21 +0100, me18@privacy.net (zoara) said:
> James Jolley <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
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>> On 2008-10-11 19:18:45 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> said:
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>>> That's probably the main reason your machine's running slow. Try and
>>> free another 5 gigs - as a rule of thumb aim to leav ...
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Re: Speaking the time via an applescript
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:55:04 +0100
On 2008-10-11 23:10:24 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said:
> James Jolley <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
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>> How did you learn it then? Just via the help?
>
> A bit of this, a bit of that. I used to write scripts in Userland's
> Frontier (also known as Aretha or Clay Basket) then I had a differenc ...
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Re: Speaking the time via an applescript
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:35:08 +0100
On 2008-10-11 22:18:18 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said:
> James Jolley <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
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>> On 2008-10-11 19:51:41 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said:
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>>> James Jolley <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am curious to know how easy it is to have an apple scrip ...
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Re: Optical Character Recognition
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:53:25 +0100
On 2008-10-11 19:35:27 +0100, Rob <patchoulianREMOVETHIS@gmail.com> said:
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> I had a look at their (sightandsound) site. I'd estimate their
> computers are three times the price of a Dell equivalent. I'd be a
> little more assured if there was *anything* on their support pages. But
> there isn't so I'm not ...
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Re: Speaking the time via an applescript
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:46:25 +0100
On 2008-10-11 19:51:41 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said:
> James Jolley <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
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>> I am curious to know how easy it is to have an apple script speak the
>> time.
>
> Piece of cake:
>
> set the date_stamp to ((the current date) as string)
> say the date_stamp
God I ...
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Re: Reinstall Tiger - get rid of crud?
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:22:18 +0100
On 2008-10-11 19:18:45 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> said:
> On 2008-10-11 18:28:16 +0100, Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> said:
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>> Both. I now seem to be waiting a good 10 seconds or more after hitting the
>> space bar before I get a login window from sleep. Sluggishness other places
>> too. It would ...
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Re: Optical Character Recognition
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:18:07 +0100
On 2008-10-11 19:12:49 +0100, Rob
> That does look impressive.
>
> But, and without wishing to sound mean - over ¡ê1100 for the software
> alone? Is there any concession or government funding for visually
> impaired people?
>
> There is "access to work" but as I don't work myself I am not entitled
> to t ...
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Speaking the time via an applescript
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:10:48 +0100
Hi folks,
I am curious to know how easy it is to have an apple script speak the
time. Yes, VoiceOver does give access to the righthand menu but I was
hoping to just assign the speak time script to a shortcut in system
preferences. Is this doable?
--
Best
-James-
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Re: Optical Character Recognition
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:07:08 +0100
On 2008-10-11 17:13:16 +0100, Rob <patchoulianREMOVETHIS@gmail.com> said:
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> I'd have to say having followed your posts accuracy and text placement
> is pretty impressive - certainly better than I can do!
>
> Hi,
Of course, writing text is different but a lot of my formatting has a
lot to do with both Sp ...
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Re: Optical Character Recognition
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:03:05 +0100
On 2008-10-11 17:34:33 +0100, Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> said:
> In article <2008101115545075249-jamesjolley@mecom>, James Jolley
> <james.jolley@me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-10-11 14:53:44 +0100, Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> said:
> <snip>
>>> James, how do you handle your scanning, and generally lo ...
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