Re: motionXgps drive.

Jessica, I suggest you read what BlindSquare can do from here: http://blindsquare.com/help/ There is also links to podcasts. Br, Ilkka On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > That sounds cool, I think I need a memory refresher on what blindsquare > does as opposed to your typica

Re: motionXgps drive.

I'm not sure what you mean. BlindSquare is global, it is used in 60 countries and it has been localised to 23 languages. MotionX is US/Canada only. Br, Ilkka On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Sad! > Or maybe i am not really familiar with blindsquare. > /A > 27 jun

Re: Blind Square - help getting started please

Hello! I'm developer of the app. BlindSquare really doesn't need built-in turn-by-turn, since it is always better if user can use best-of-best. It varies by the location, if TomTon, Navigon, Google Maps or Apple Maps is better than the other, so it is really the best choice to give user freedom to

Re: No sound in iPhone 5S speaker...

Have you rebooted your phone? Br On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi there > I just had the same thing happened to me on my 5S also. I was running > BlindSquare, and my phone went dead. At least, it might as well as them. I > can get Siri to answer me, but nothing good

Re: Need an iPhone GPS solution

Here you will find instructions and also list of supported Navigation apps: http://blindsquare.com/instructions#tracking-and-route Ilkka On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi Gigi, > > It did. I had just figured out that I needed to plan a route to get it to > access Apple

Re: BlindSquare V3.00 is out.

Hello! Press release: http://blindsquare.com/press/ More info of Indoor system: http://blindsquare.com/indoor/ Best, Ilkka (developer of BlindSquare) On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Sadam. > Do you have the URL that was shown on the update notes in BlindSquare? I >

Re: Uber Questions

Jessica, just like you mention, BlindSquare has full support for ordering Uber taxi. Just search by name, address or from your contacts, and you will then see price and minutes how long it will take Uber to pick you up. You can then launch Uber and you are one click away of ordering. Driver will kn

Re: Braille on the Mac

So, do you need braille font? If yes, there are some already installed in osx: http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/141-resources/resources-1/1087-download-braille-and-asl-specialty-fonts Lähetetty iPhonesta > Jeff Berwick kirjoitti 25.1.2016 kello 2.04: > > Thanks Erick. We have a braille, but she need

Re: Walking directions in the United States

Apple Watch can also be used to control BlindSquare's Audio Menu: http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-controlling-blindsquare-gps-now-playing-glance-apple-watch Best, Ilkka On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Cristina Hartmann < cristina.hartm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if

Re: blind square help.

Hello! You will find list of all 3rd party navigation apps from here: http://blindsquare.com/instructions/#tracking-and-route There are 10 options and 3 of them are free. Ilkka On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Jessica > When it says Maps, I think it means Apple Maps.

Re: Bone conduction your phones with iPhone

I have tested many bone conduction headphones and AfterShokz is the best ones I have used. You need first decide if you want it with wires or wireless. My suggestion with wires is AfterShokz Sportz M2 -model. It has microphone too, so you can make phone calls too and control Siri. For wireless th

Re: i phone users.

Hello you all! Thank you Eugenia for this nice posting where you describe so well the level of independence an iDevice can make possible. If Apple develops their products with great vision without interacting with end user too much, I develop BlindSquare together with end users, bit by bit bringi

Re: i phone users.

king and won't stop. This is because, for instance, my > house is at 1019, but the program thinks I'm at 1015, which, by the way, is > better than some GPS programs I've used. So far, this is the only thing > that I had trouble with. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. >

Re: blind square on android

ndroid the way they > do on IOS, especially because more and more blind people are starting to > use this platform > On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > > Hello you all! > > > > Thank you Eugenia for this nice posting where you describe so

Re: i phone users.

appen before. > > However, now that I know about 15 minutes, maybe I'll just leave it alone > since I have a for S iPhone. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 29, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Hello! > > This has noth

Re: i phone users.

> probably something you can't do anything about. > > > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 29, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Yes, try that out. The thing you describe is something that app has no > control of, so it's

Re: i phone users.

do if you're not using voice over. > I have had to restart the phone before to make the app switcher behave > properly after this. > Regards, > GG > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 29, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Hello Eugenia! > >

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

That's one of the things that will improve in future. Now you can always shake to ask your current location. Sent from my iPhone On 8.7.2013, at 12.14, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi > I can't say anything about the Seeing eye gps as it hasen't come to Sweden > yet, however i've tried Blindsqua

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

o Blind > square stops working when I've done 15 minutes and it gos to sleep. Why can't > blind square wake up automatically when you start moving? > > On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > >> That's one of the things that will improve in future. N

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

y can't > blind square wake up automatically when you start moving? > > On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > >> That's one of the things that will improve in future. Now you can always >> shake to ask your current location. >> >> S

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

In current version shaking works when you are on main screen. In version 1.43 (sent to Apple for review) it will work on any screen. Sent from my iPhone On 8.7.2013, at 14.50, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I have enabled shaking in settings. > > On 8 Jul 2013, at 12:46 PM, Ilkka Pirttim

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

open the App. I can't get Tracking to work > either. Is the map a picture map? I don't know how to use the tracking > feature. Nothing seems to be labelled or perhaps I don't no what to do with > it. > > On 8 Jul 2013, at 12:53 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > &

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

or the feed. > > On 8 Jul 2013, at 01:45 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Kawal, are you talking about Blindsquare? It has all element labeled and > it also has help system built on each element. If you have enabled hints in > your iOS, you'll hear explanations of each elem

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

:-) Its purpose is to give you good knowledge where you are when you travel by bus or you think your taxi driver tries to get more money from you than necesssery. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Nicholas Parsons < mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Did you say BlindSquare works while drivin

Re: blind square

Foursquare itself is a game millions of people plays around the world. Blindsquare (and now also Seeing Eye) benefits of the fact that this crowdsourced game creates worlds largest active register of places around the world. If some place is missing, someone playing Foursquare will add it and give

Re: blind square

re, or do > you have to use the official app to earn them? > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > On 9/07/2013, at 4:48 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Foursquare itself is a game millions of

Re: blind square

allas > metroplex area, they slightly moved the Apple store. It looks enough > different that my poor dog couldn't find it. I had to ask. It's still the > busiest place in the mall. It's three times bigger. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > &g

Re: blind square

home. Good-bye fat wallet! >> When I neared my place, which I have as a favorite, the app made a chiming >> tone and announced the address. As the bus left my location toward the >> transit center, the app gave a descending chime. >> I was also able to find a place new

Re: blind square

t; make it a favourite without having to do a search. Like I said, I don't even >> know if this is possible. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa >> wrote: >> >>> There is separate volume setting

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3rd party apps that you can be launched directly from BSq: TomTom, Navigon, MotionX, Google Maps, Apple maps etc. Since BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you will get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving turn-by-tur

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

t; possible. > On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > >> 1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3rd party >> apps that you can be launched directly from BSq: TomTom, Navigon, MotionX, >> Google Maps, Apple maps etc. Since B

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

Usually 3rd party app has selection for that. To my knowledge, Navigon, Tomtom and Navigon does. BlindSquare support also simulation so you can plan your trip beforehand, lookaround virtually to find bus stops, favourite them and set alerts by distance. When you are in simulated place, BSq limi

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

What do you mean about structured discovery? Lähetetty iPhonesta Ray Foret jr kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 23.11: > Me, I'd rather use structured discovery. It's free and let's you go anywhere. > > > Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > Sincer

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

> The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > >> What do you mean about structured discovery? >> >> Lähetetty iPhonesta >> >> Ray Foret jr kirjoit

Re: blind square

r at: > faculty of musical education > music arranger and sound engineer > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > >> Yes, in Tools there is Recent Places. There you get list what you just heard >> and then favourite it.

Re: Third Party Turn-by-Turn Direction Apps with Blindsquare (was, Seeing Eye GPS)

Have you listened this: http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/demonstration-blindsquare-and-5-mainstream-gps-apps-ios "In this podcast, Mike Arrigo compares Google Maps,

Re: Third Party Turn-by-Turn Direction Apps with Blindsquare (was, Seeing Eye GPS)

. I guess because it's new. > > I have discovered that I would rather send co-ordinates from BlindSquare > than type the address in to Navigon. I like its searches better. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Have y

Re: a small gps victory

Ray: Google Maps provides spoken turn-by-turn also when you are walking. Here is podcast that gives you a good view about experience you get when you use Google Maps together with BlindSquare: https://audioboo.fm/boos/178-blindsquare-walking-demo-using-google-maps On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:2

Re: Gps finds the way

Jessica, BlindSquare is designed for visually impaired, so it is very fluent to use. For example, there is just one search box where you type any search term. It will find places by name, address, your contacts by name, address or company, categories matching search term etc. From search results yo

Re: Gps finds the way

13 at 12:12 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > Cool podcast, thanx for the info on that; wish I had the $14 to shell out > for it now. > > On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > > Jessica, BlindSquare is designed for visually impaired, so it is very > fluent to use. For

Re: Gps finds the way

ed their info? > >>> Either way, I still don't have the money for it yet, but wish I did, > sense it sounds amazing. > >>> On Sep 1, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > >>> > >>>> Jessica, price is USD 24 for that fun but it's

Re: Gps finds the way

If you set it for example to 300 meters, you will never miss it. On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Yes. I was at the stop when I set it. > On 1 Sep 2013, at 17:08, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > > Kawai, have you set alert distance for your stop? >

Re: Gps finds the way

...and you don't have to be there. You can do it from home. If you need to find it, you can simulate place nearby and then search for bus stops. On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > If you set it for example to 300 meters, you will never miss it. > > > On Su

Re: Blind Square again

Yes, that's how to do it. In next version you can also search it in advance and mark as favorite: Then you find it from your "My Places". Searching by "multi-word-search-term" works okay but best match is not always shown first since they are sorted by distance. This is fixed in soon-to-be-release

Re: Plantronics Voyager legend and Blindsquare

Hello! I'm little bit concerned, how well Audio Menu works with Plantronics, since to activate any menu item, you need to click Play again and if it takes couple of seconds, it doesn't work. Krister, can you activate for example Look Around or Weather with it? Audio Menu works great with regular

Re: Best GPS for me?

Hello! I'm developer of BlindSquare. There is no try-and-buy option since TTS costs always. You can still use Apple's returning policies, there is always possibility to return app and get money back. About what BlindSquare does: It reports automatically street addresses while you walk, next street

Re: Best GPS for me?

Thanks Vivianna. Since launch (in late May this year) I have published 3 major releases and 4th is under Apple's review. Most of the features are ideas from real users and I think this is the only way to get there what title of this thread says :-) BR, Ilkka -- You received this message because

Re: Best GPS for me?

Android hasn't been so good for visually impaired but I have tested latest version and it seems to catch up Apple. It's true what you say about TTS. In my development version I have VoiceOver -only but it's just so bad compared to Acapela TTS that I'll not publish it. If I find a partner or invest

Re: Best GPS for me?

BlindSquare uses OpenStreetMaps. It has better license than Google Maps. There is also neat data available that BS doesn't use - yet. For example information about traffic lights and locations of entrances. I've been also speaking to some members of "OpenStreetMap community". You can't "ask them"

Re: Best GPS for me?

I'm glad you like it. Next version is in Apple for review and it support background operation too among other new features. You can add a personal place by going to Tools (second button form top of the screen) and "My places". It gives a list of your places and you can use it as any search result

Re: Best GPS for me?

When you add your wifes workplace to "My Places" following happens: 1) When you get within selected radius, place is mentioned automatically when you get close (so, in a bus you get "warning") 2) When you are within selected radius, selecting "My Places" category lists this place and you can start

Re: Best GPS for me?

Yes, just open "App Store" on your iPhone and search "blindsquare". Here is link too: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindsquare/id500557255?mt=8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Re: Best GPS for me?

For your knowledge, version 1.20 is sent to Apple for review. It will have following changes: NEW FEATURE: Works on background. You can disable this from settings. NEW FEATURE: FourSquare leaderboard announcements NEW FEATURE: Volume can be changed NEW FEATURE: Web page of the venue can be opened

Re: Best GPS for me?

map is of the approximate area." On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Tammy wrote: > Hi, > > Can you check in there on foursquare as well and have it show up publicly as > home or whatever you've called it? > > > Tammy > > -Original Message- From: Ilkka Pir

Re: Blindsquare (was Best GPS for me?)

It works totally without FourSquare. My initial idea was to make an app that you can use without any knowledge of smartphones. You don't even need to have FourSquare account. It can still access foursquare database and it get's information about other users check-in counts. That way it knows "what

Re: Best GPS for me?

Tammy, currently there is no way to use BlindSquare to add place to FourSquare. It's planned feature but now you have to do that with FourSquare client. BlindSquare will then show it in category "Shared Places" (I think it describes it better than "Private", since it's shared among your 4sq frends)

Re: Best GPS for me?

want to know how i > can use it for walking and get constent prompt to my destonation. Thank you > in advance. > - Original Message - From: "Ilkka Pirttimaa" < > ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com> > To: > > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:13 AM >

Re: Best GPS for me?

so? Mel > > On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:36 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > > Version 1.20 is now in the App Store. > > Les > On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > Hello! When you have searched the target (by category list, search, recent > places or My

Re: Best GPS for me?

> ways down the street. Are there certon settings that i need to use? I was > riding in the car with a friend and it did anounce when he was at the > diferent streets as well as the stores in view. I just want to know how i > can use it for walking and get constent prompt to my destona

Re: Best GPS for me?

interesting feature in iOS6.1. Now in beta for > developers, I reed in some foruns that will be possible uses apple maps in > third apps. Blindscare going to use this one? > *From:* Ilkka Pirttimaa > *Sent:* Friday, November 02, 2012 1:44 PM > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: Best GPS for me?

Great, I'll study that and I already have some ideas... On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Juan Pablo wrote: > Sure, I understand. But with the new 6.1 won’t be necessary bs launches > apple maps to do it. [image: Smile] > > *From:* Ilkka Pirttimaa > *Sent:* Friday, Novem

Re: How Best to Track My placees

home on > the return trip, I heard my address announced, as well as the tracked > location of 0 feet. I thought tracking a location meant the closer you > got, the smaller the distance to the location? Please explain how this > works. Thanks. > > Les > On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:30

Re: Best GPS for me?

t i at least have one hand free. > /Krister > > 2 nov 2012 kl. 20:03 skrev Ilkka Pirttimaa : > > > Great, I'll study that and I already have some ideas... > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Juan Pablo wrote: > > Sure, I understand. But w

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012 at 5:02 PM, matthew Dyer wrote: > How much is this app? Is there a way to try it first before I buy? > > Matthew > > > On Nov 3, 2012, at 1:23 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > > When you select a target, it reports your distance and clock face to that > target. When you

Re: How Best to Track My placees

any way of estimating how much data it uses? i want to upgrade > my plan accordingly. > > thank you > > mauricio > > On Nov 3, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa > wrote: > > It's 15 USD. You pay it once and use it forever. Big part of the price is >

Re: Blindsquare again

Hello! You can add place when you are at the location. So it takes coordinates where you are and saves that with the name. Is this the case? I'm just adding a feature that you can search any foursquare venue and then add that as a favorite. That way you can also add places where you are not at th

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

Harry, did you know that BlindSquare supports super cool public transport support in UK. You may want to go to Other/Settings to check if your shake settings include Public Transport. Best, Ilkka On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Harry Bell wrote: > Jonathan > Your post was so helpful! I have str

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

It works on trainstations too, including tracks, delays and all you need. You can control these also from audio menu and with voice commands like "bus", "train" or more specific "bus 22" Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Mar 2017, at 19.16, Scott Granados wrote: > > Just to add to what you’re talkin

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

rs. > Since June of 014. If I purchased the app on my IPhone 6S plus. Would > I get the prompt that the developer needs to update the app and it > could slow down your IPhone. Also, does the app work outside the U > S? > > On 3/3/17, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > > It works on

Re: BlindSquare clockface directions

Hello! When you are walking, direction comes from GPS changes, so then there is no matter how device is positioned. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Christina wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Everytime I use blindSquare when walking, it will announce a POI at say 2 > o’clock, more often than not, i