Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the assistive touch icon from moving? Sometimes it will stay where I put it but sometimes I find that it has moved covering up a spot on the screen that I need so I have to move it back.

Hello all:
Am depending on my notes app to arrange most of my daily tasks.
but , i need these tasks to be with reminders, 1 way is to create a note containing all my daily tasks and another reminder for each task, but it may not be very easy.
so, am asking if i can convert a note that contains several check items into reminders? in order to use them in a more professional way?
and, are there any advanced shortcuts that can arrange this task for me?

Play chess online at FICS or ICC, play the Pulsar Chess Engine on or offline with chess and variants like Chess960 with levels, and use the Openings Explorer with an opening tree book based on 345,000 over the board games and analysis which also works offline. There is In-App help. For online play, if no account, use the Connect as Guest button to play unrated. FICS accounts are life time free accounts. Diamond Chess supports Dark Mode and has no ads.
Diamond Chess seeks to be a complete chess app, not just online play. All games are logged that are played, and there is the ability to load and examine them with engine analysis to study and learn from last games. The Watch Game Board option watches a high rated game which is also designed as a way to improve in chess by watching. On FICS the Find a Game Board Option has a Training tab for endgame and puzzle studies that both guests and members can use.
The Explorer Tab which works offline or online with certain restrictions while playing, offers an Opening Tree based on 345K over the board games were both players are rated over 2300. The move table view can be toggled to show analysis and PGN games including the players log file can be loaded. The chess opening name is also given after a few moves are made. There are 10 PGN game collections available in app that include Morphy 1858, Fischer’s best games, a Capablanca and Kasparov collection, and a range of game collections from classical too modern to be viewed with the opening book and analysis, on and offline.
There is an on board multi level chess program that plays chess, chess960, a form of shuffle chess, and a few variants such as Crazyhouse, Atomic Chess and Loser's Chess. The engine option on the connect tab is available on and off line. On ICC there is an option for members to play 50 Chess Videos in app which trials can access too.
As a guest by moving between ICC and FICS users can experience two different playing pools. Guests on FICS can observe high rated games on FICS, and view theirs or other players recent games. On ICC guests can use the Play Bots option to play tactical and endgame bots, play other players, view games that are finished from important relays with Broadcast option, and view their recent games by the open log file option.
The Diamond Chess board features engine analysis with one click when observing a chess game or examining one. Diamond also has a load PGN option and logs all played games to PGN. Multiple games can be up at once and users click the next or previous buttons to move between them.
Diamond Chess supports both chess and the server's variants such as Crazyhouse, Losers, Atomic Chess, Giveaway or Suicide Chess.
Diamond has an accessible board to use with Voice Over for the visually impaired. On the settings tab in the Voice Over section, there is Voice Over help available with commands that can be used from the console.
Members can join channels and chat in the Diamond Chess console or if the users is familiar with them issue server commands.
ICC, Internet Chess Club, has free levels and free guest access. FICS, Free Internet Chess Server, is entirely free.

Chess King (https://learn.chessking.com/) is an unprecedented chess teaching app. In the program are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With the help of this program, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.
Some courses contain a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.
Advantages of the program:
• High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
• You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
• Different levels of complexity of the tasks
• Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems
• The program gives hint if an error is made
• For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
• You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process
• Test mode with flexible settings
• Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
• The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet
• The application does not require an internet connection
• VoiceOver support
• In the app, courses are divided by themes and levels, so you can choose a most suitable course
Each course includes a free part, in which you can test the program and exercises. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before purchasing a full version. Each course should be bought separately, but you can buy a subscription which gives you an access to all courses for a limited time. Important information about subscriptions:
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• Advanced Defense (Chess Puzzles)
• Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
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• Mate in 1, 2, 3-4
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Hey all AppleVis people!
After long hesitating and loads of trepidation, I finally decided to get myself a MacBook Air, and have now been having it for about three weeks. Wile there are still a lot of things that I don't know and some that I consider quite tricky, overall I'm really surprised with how smooth the whole adjusting process has been for me and I'm quite happy with it and reasonably comfortable using it for most things I do on a computer regularly...
Except for translating. And, being multilingual and a language learner, that's something I do A LOT. Like, I'm only now realising how often I translate something every day! On Windows, I used to use the Instant Translate add-on for NVDA, and then switched to an app called QTranslate and have stuck to it since. I really like how easy to use and minimalistic it is and that you don't need to distract yourself from whatever you're writing or reading whenever you need to translate a phrase or make sure you got some word right. So, because I don't know of any similarly good app for Mac, whenever I'm writing something that requires me to translate something regularly, I end up switching to Windows. I know that I most likely will need to stick to Windows for some things I do occasionally and that's absolutely okay, but I'm hoping to be able to rely on the Mac as my primary computer so my sister can become the full-time user of the PC, and that won't be an option if I don't find a viable Mac alternative. for translation.
Of course there's Google Translate website, but that's not quite as convenient. I've also seen ITranslate in the AppleVis apps directory, but it didn't sound particularly accessible, so I'm very curious if any of you are currently using it or have any experience with it. Have you perhaps figured out any workarounds for the accessibility issues that make it more usable?
I really like DeepL in general, and I know they have a Mac OS app which is apparently nicely accessible and I'll definitely be having a look at it, but my problem with DeepL is that it doesn't support two of the languages that I need, and one is a minority language so it'll probably take quite some time before they add it, if they will at all. And Apple's new-ish Translate feature doesn't even do my native language.
Do you use any translate app that you could recommend? Any suggestions/ideas highly appreciated. :)

Hi all. For some reason, at random this behavior happens. It happens in Mail and also on safari sometimes. I'll be in the middle of the a page and the focus goes to the toolbar. On in Mail it will send me to the recovered messages folder. I'm using a Macbook pro M1 chip. I'm on 12.1 Has anyone had this happen?

Hi, what are people's thoughts on the Hable1? I would love if someone did a podcast on it and or a review. Thanks.

What do you use the Touch Bar for? Do you enjoy it? Do you find it useful?

Hello hope all is well. Comparing Safari vs Chrome for Mac, which one do you use? I'm thinking about switching from Safari to Chrome.
One other question is is it possible to import all data from Safari to that browser?

Thank you so much

Hi everyone,
I have a very strange bug which I’ve only noticed today but it is driving me mad. Every time I type a message in the iMessage or send a message through messenger when I’m typing, the iPhone suddenly announces to me “the topprediction is“. Not sure why it started doing that but it keeps repeating it again and again. I have gone into settings and keyboard and turned off the prediction but it’s still doing it. Does anybody have any ideas of what to do. I am using iOS 15.2 with my iPhone 12 mini.
Cheers

Hi, all. I'd like to set up a keyboard shortcut to zoom a window back to normal size. Some app windows, such as a VPN app, I minimize most of the time, but I want the option to access the controls quickly. If I add a keyboard shortcut in the All Applications category, what should i name the function? I've tried Zoome Window and Window > Zoome, but can't get either to work. Thanks in advance for any help.

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been using "ad stuff and blocker", but it's for intel mac only. any decent safari blocker extensions for m1 mac? thanks.

Hi,
I know there's a books app on mac, but my gripe about it is you can only listen at a max playback speed of 2x. Is there a good audiobook player for mac that preferably supports mp3 folder-based audiobooks, and can play at a speed of 3x?
Thanks,

I have the latest MacOS installed. Lots of apps are not responding when I do basic tasks. This includes Chrome and Safari browsers most frequently, Finder occasionally, Pages and some others I forgot.
Is this related to my Mac Air getting old or some others can confirm they are having same issues with their newer macs?

I've been noticing that Focus mode does not behave consistently when screen curtain is on. I have set Do not Disturb to run automatically for an App. However, when screen curtain is turned on, it does not turn on automatically as expected. No issue while getting the focus turned on when the screen curtain is off. Weird bug.

Is there a way to forward text messages with header information? The native messages app forwards only the text of a message. If you forward multiple messages, it just concatenates the text. I would like to forward messages with date, time, and sender information for each message, kind of like email messages appear in a thread, Or like messages appear in the messages app in a conversation.. is there any way to do this?
Thanks.

Hi everyone.

So I’m slowing migrating my work flow to my iPad mini 2021. I love this little thing. I think it is the perfect size for my needs and find myself using it for media consumption but am starting to do more work on it too. It simply works better than my mac, no issues with voiceover an safari, a bit buggy with hang ups from time to time but is a far more focused working experience. The issue I have though is, I need a keyboard to work with it. My second problem is, I need one that folds down.

I’ve got a little tech pouch from peak design which holds cable, hard drives, a power bank and my trusty little iPad mini with no problem. The issue is I can’t fit a keyboard in there.

I’ve just bought the Arteck Portable Folding Bluetooth Keyboard which, for anyone who doesn’t rely so heavily on voiceover shortcuts would be fine. The issue is, however, the option, function, commmand and control keysare in an odd order and the function key pressed with left doesn’t work as the home key so that we might jump back and forth to the top or bottom of a screen.

I’ve seen reference to the iiclever keyboard on here which is quite expensive over here in the UK as it needs importing, but is it good? Are all the function keys available? I’m typing this on a Satechi Bluetooth keyboard which is great, except that if I try to fold it it would probably not work again…

Thoughts? Suggestions? It does seem odd there isn’t a really kick ass Bluetooth keyboard that folds available for IIOS these days.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Since one of the last updates my Macbook with latest os does not switch on VoiceOver automatically on login screen. When I turn on to do so in System Preferences Users and login options, the setting is not permanent. It is set to offf after next login. In addition, on login VoiceOver hangs. I habe to deactivate and re-activate it by pressing CMD+F5 twice. VO hangs in some situations while using BlueTooth with my headphones. In this case I also press twice CMD+F5. Has anyone an idea how to repair this? Best regards , Guenther