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The airshow returns to Key West this weekend after a few years absence. It should be fun to go see the planes, the Blue Angels and other stunt pilots.
We have gotten stock of the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro so stop into one of our stores if you want to get a hands-on look at the latest from Apple!
Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!
Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,
Don, Emily & Hadley
Next week I will be on the road so it will be fun to see how Emily handles the Apple quarterly results that are going to be announced on Tuesday. I guess I’d better write that up in my hotel room from the road.
Last year, most of our plants suffered while we were gone. Between the lack of water and the chickens we had to do a lot of work to get them back. I installed a nice drip irrigation system this year but we will still have chicken invasions. For those of you that don’t know, Key West protects wild chickens and they are everywhere. That must be why Grace loves Key West so much!
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_Don, Emily, Hadley & Amy_
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Last week we talked about how to activate and use dictation to write emails and documents but there is a lot more that you can do. I keep thinking about Scotty from Star Trek when he went back in time and was “**confronted with a Mac Plus**”:https://youtu.be/LkqiDu1BQXY?t=1m8s. He picked up the mouse as natural as can be and said “computer…”. That time is coming and Dictation Commands are already built into your operating system.
Once you have dictation activated you can activate dictation commands by going to the Accessibility system preference.
* Choose Accessibility from System Preferences.
* Choose Dictation from the list on the left side of the Accessibility pane.
* Click the Dictation Commands button. You can see a list of available commands in the Dictation Commands sheet.
* A starting set of commands are enabled by default. Additional speakable items like “Open document” and “Click item” are available by enabling advanced commands using these next steps:
* Select (check) the option to “Enable advanced commands” in the Dictation Commands sheet that appears.
* Click Done.
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After you have enabled advanced commands, you can also create your own commands by clicking the Add Command (+) button. This lets you link a spoken phrase to an app, a menu item, a keyboard shortcut, or an Automator workflow.
You have enabled Dictation Commands and now you can speak any of the items in this list to perform the related action. Press the Fn key twice, then say a command to make it happen, such as “Search Spotlight for the Cubs score” or “select sentence” or “new document”. Give it a try and pretty soon you will be just like Scotty and the Mac Plus.
As a shortcut, you can speak the command “Show commands” to see a list of the commands you can say.