Hi Sandy and Yuma,
OK, here are a few thoughts about apps. Mark Taylor uses a free app called Audio Boo, that's billed as "Twitter
for people who want their voices heard". This is more a social networking app than a trip record, where you can
create an account at Audioboo, then record record "boos" of up to 3-mintues in length, add a short
description, optionally attach a photo, assign tags, and then publish your "boo". You can link your account
to a Twitter acoount, and tweet accordingly. I haven't used this, but when I examined it some months ago it looked
accessible. More conventionally, you could use Voxie Pro Recorder in Express Mode (shake to stop or start recording),
for off the cuff impressions. Then, tag and file your recordings. Yuma, if you're using BlueFiRe (the free app), you
might want to consider getting FiRe ($5.99) from AudioFile Engineering (or, I think you can now upgrade to FiRe from
Blue FiRe through in-app purchase. This is more of a professional recording tool, but the features that I like about
FiRe, is that they really improved the accessiblity of easily generating markers (tap anywhere in the center of the
screen where your finger would naturally fall and you generate a marker -- with BlueFiRe you have to aim for a more
limited "playhead" to place a marker. Navigating through by markers is also even easier in FiRe than it is
in Blue FiRe, because as well as tapping the left or right side of the center to go to the previous or next marker, you
can do this quick scroll through a horizontal extension of the playhead position that you have to aim at for tapping
with BlueFiRe to place markers. This is in addition to scrolling by doing three finger flicks left or right in the
central region to move the recorded music position with respect to the playhead. Hope this isn't too confusing, but
the app was described in more detail in the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg22979.html
(FiRe -- Field Recorder app on sale for $5.99 through June 10, 2010)
On a totally different subject, Sandy, at least, might consider getting a
traveler's app called mPassport. The mPassport Florence app is free; the
mPassport Rome app just went from free to $0.99 a week ago. They also have a
free app for Nairobi, but I think this is only available from (international)
iTunes Stores where the language is English. They're meant to help travelers
who encounter sudden medical emergencies while traveling abroad. with contact
and location information on doctors (who also speak English), phrarmacies,
hospitals, etc. Even if you only want to know the hours, locations, and
telephone numbers of nearby pharmacies this is great information. Even betters
is their drug equivalencies and medical translations guides -- with recorded
audio sections that correctly identify medical terms. (Feature is not
available for all languages and countries, but these are generally available
for Spanish, Italian, German, and French)
For more details, see my archived post about "Accessible traveler's medical
apps for iPhone/iPod Touch: mPassport Paris).
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg17672.html
This is still largely true, although the audio portion of the medical
translations part of the app requires an internet connection. Everything else
(including translated sections) is local to the iPhone or iPod Touch. And
since you have the language rotor, you can have the iPhone simply read out the
translations. (There are about 24 of these mPassport apps that I now have or
got when they were free. Most are still free.)
Another great, general resource is "Hear Planet: Audio Guide to the world"
(free, lite edition, and paid $4.99 edition from HearPlanet. This is wikipedia style
information for various points of interest near your location. All quite accessibile (or
was in the versions I previewed.)
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
Ciao Sandy,
Non ce problemi, allora parli italiano? Bello
I think you can register for an account over the iphone's safari browser, and
you can download the app via itunes.
I will be going with my partner too, and i don't think rwanda has any gps map
ready unless i am positively surprised once i get there or in the meantime as i
browse the web for solutions.
I still don't have a guide dog so this time its going to be ala freestyle stick
wielding and shin breaking :)
My blog is http://Theblindsamurai.Com
I'm pretty excited as i am finishing up an important developement project here
in Cambodia and will go first to Santorini for a wedding, then its straight off
to kigali via nairobi in Kenya.
Will let you know when the adventure begins, and please bear with me as this is
my first attempt at making something out of this expensive setup apart from my
communications tools.
Arrivederci,
Yuma DX®
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