I might be up for making such a thing, if I ever find the time. If I do, it would be great to have a place to post it. For that matter, this group should have a general area for posting tips, FAQs, resource links, etc.; a place to capture and organize all the good ideas that come through, like a wiki. Anyone up for it setting something like that up? -- Ian Gilman -- digital renaissance man -- www.iangilman.com -- 415-706-8447 On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: > At 12:13 AM -0500 2/22/07, David Wehe wrote: >> On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Ian Gilman wrote: >> >>> I used to have trouble getting ViaVoice to launch, but I've found >>> a workaround through much trial and error. It's simply this: >>> open your System Preferences to the Audio panel and select >>> Input. Then start ViaVoice. Works every time for me. Strange >>> but true. >>> >>> -- Ian Gilman-- digital renaissance man >>> -- www.iangilman.com-- 415-706-8447 >>> >> >> Doesn't the program VV quit working on you during the day? Then >> you can't get it to quit without restarting your machine and >> performing that workaround again. That's my problem with V V. If >> it would stay working, I'd keep using it. > > I have no experience with Automator, but I wonder if the series of > actions Ian described could be automated, then accomplished with a > keystroke or two. (It could certainly be done with AppleScript; > sadly I haven't the time I would need to create such a script > myself.) --Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > MacVoice mailing list > MacVoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macvoice > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > >