date:20130712

When you press command-s it will display the save/save as dialogue, unless the 
file has already been saved. If the file has already been saved you have a few 
options.
YOu can navigate to the left up near the toolbar to the file actions pop up 
button. In this button are options such as rename file, move file and duplicate 
file. You can also get these functions from the file menu. These will allow you 
to do the same things as save as. If, for instance, you duplicate the file, you 
can then press command-s to bring up the save dialogue to choose a file name, 
file type and file location etcetera. The original file will not be changed.

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Re: New PDF reader

2013-07-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger

Hi,
as far as I could tell its for partially sighted people only not for screen 
reader users.
All the best
Jürgen
Am 11.07.2013 um 09:13 schrieb Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com:

 I'm not sure about that particular one, but my university brought to my 
 attention another new PDF reader called something like Vision Impaired PDF 
 reader or accessible PDF reader or something. It advertised itself as being 
 an accessible PDF reader for companies concerned with accessibility. However, 
 it just had built in speech which would read out the text of the PDF. So no 
 particular screen reader support. Perhaps useful for people with low vision 
 who could see enough to click the speak button but didn't have a screen 
 reader, but no use for screen reader users.
 
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

2013-07-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger

Hello Anne,

thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually it's 
Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very much. 
The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the episode 
about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the episodes in You 
Tube.

But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I wrote?

Thanks and
all the best
Jürgen

Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:

 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty usable 
 with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download something: 
 GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you were 
 but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for this 
 series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes on 
 the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show but 
 can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully accessible 
for the Mac now?

On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:

 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very 
 much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the 
 episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the 
 episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download something: 
 GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes on 
 the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show but 
 can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Kawal,

No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get 
iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.

Cheers,

Anne


On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:23, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:

 I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully accessible 
 for the Mac now?
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very 
 much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the 
 episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the 
 episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download something: 
 GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes 
 on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show but 
 can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
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Re: Character size in Keynote

Hello Daniela,

Have you tried selecting the text and doing Cmd-+ to make the characters bigger?

Cheers,

Anne


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 Hello all:
 I just wanted to know how can I get a good size of characters in Keynote, so 
 the slide is correct visually speaking. How can I change this size? In the 
 inspector I see the size too big, and when I paste the content of the slide 
 from Textedit, it becomes too small.
 Can you suggest a get around this please? I will appreciate it very much.
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Jürgen,

I looked for Who do you think you are as well, but no episodes were 
available. I think they're only available for a week after they're broadcast.

As for the error message, it seems to be a format that GIA doesn't recognise.

Cheers,

Anne


On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:20, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:

 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very 
 much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the 
 episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the 
 episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download something: 
 GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes on 
 the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show but 
 can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Wonderful.

How can we get this App or Program?

Kawal. 

On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

 Hello Kawal,
 
 No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get 
 iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:23, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
 
 I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully 
 accessible for the Mac now?
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it 
 very much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I 
 liked the episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some 
 of the episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download 
 something: GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD 
 programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes 
 on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show 
 but can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

2013-07-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger

Hello Anne,

do you have an idea what GIA exactly is? I don't understand what I'm supposed 
to do to satisfy GIA. ;-)

All the best
Jürgen

Am 12.07.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:

 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I looked for Who do you think you are as well, but no episodes were 
 available. I think they're only available for a week after they're broadcast.
 
 As for the error message, it seems to be a format that GIA doesn't recognise.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:20, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very 
 much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the 
 episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some of the 
 episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download something: 
 GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes 
 on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show but 
 can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
 
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Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my new
area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop on my way
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 to me while walking.

Regaards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my IPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside shopping
malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is not only based
on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It means, BlindSquare
will know your rough position and adapt annoucements according to that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not hear
direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you increase
notification distance, you will hear more places with clockface information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from you.
You will probably hear distance and clockface for half of the way there.

I'm pretty sure that in the future indoor positioning will get better and
better. Couple months ago, Apple acquired a company
(http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/23/apple-buys-indoor-gps-company-wifislam-for-20m)
for 20 million dollars who had working prototype on Android devices. Their
system uses knowledge of wifi radio signals to get location with accuracy of
few meters.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas (http://www.indooratlas.com).
With their technology, one can record static magnetic fields inside buildings.
You can then use your mobile devices magnetometer to calculate fingerprint and
get your location inside that building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more navigation
possibilities also inside buildings!

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hello guys
I foundw out something about BlindSquare yesterday that I was most impressed
with. I almost didn't test it out, because I figured no GPS program would do
this anyway.

Yesterday, I went to Northpark mall to the Apple Store I left BlindSquare
running. It started telling me about a lot of the stores as I was passing.
The only thing is, and I understand why, it didn't tell me left or right but
it did give distance.

Oh, for those of you on this list like myself who are in the Dallas 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

On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

Jonathan, I have heard rumour that 3rd party applications wouldn't get you
to mayor and it would be shame if Foursquare API's would work that way. I
actually don't know. I don't play so much that I would know from my own
experience. I found some conversations that says that 3rd party apps has
just the same features:
https://getsatisfaction.com/foursquare/topics/3rd_party_app_checkins_vs_official_app

I have earned my badges by using BlindSquare.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote:
Hi Ilkka, can you earn mayorships if you check in with Blindsquare, 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 ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

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 it category + address information, because they earn points in
a game!

If you like to play this game, BlindSquare has full support for it too.
You can also check-in to places without publishing information about your
location to anyone. You still earn points and hear your score and who of
your Foursquare friends are in front of you.

I know some visually impaired are friends in Foursquare and share their
checkins. They will get push notifications about friends checkins and get
to know if they are near each other.

I have plans to have even more benefits if you start playing game while
using BlindSquare. For example, from your check-ins, BlindSquare could
learn what type of restaurants you tend to like and suggestions will get
better and better.

I once more want to

Any recommendations on a good headset for broadcasting?

2013-07-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom

Hi,
I have a Plantronics Audio 995 headset that's wireless, and i thought it had 
good sound quality but now i hear that the sampling frequency is about 25 KHz 
so not good for doing broadcasts with, so i wonder if anyone has 
recommendations for a headset i can use for internet broadcasting? Wired or 
wireless doesn't matter.
It should work on a mac preferrably in usb mode.
Any ideas?
/Krister

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Re: Bing Replacing Google as Default Search Engine in Safari on OS X

HI John,
What you're saying sounds interesting. However, I'm not sure exactly what it is 
you're saying. Could you please try and give me a little more detail if 
possible?
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowle.
All the best,
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iBooks on OS 10.9 Mavericks Beta

2013-07-12 Thread Marcus Low

Hi All

Has anyone been able to try out iBooks on the Beta of OS 10.9
Mavericks? I would love to have confirmation that it is fully
accessible - as one would expect it to be.

Thanks
Marcus

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Re: blind square

2013-07-12 Thread Eugenia Firth

Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare. Now
that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a couple of
ideas.

First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the volume down on my headphones,
and voiceover is very low to the point where I can't hear it when I'm done
that. Also, I got a phone call the other day, and I couldn't hear and I had to
start raising the volume on the headphone before I could talk on the call. So,
I'm not sure what all can be done about this completely, but that would be
beneficial.

Another feature, and I don't know if this is possible, would be to be able to
choose a location that you heard when you were passing it so that you would be
notified when you got there. Or, maybe you could put it on your favorites right
then and there. This is just some ideas.

Regards,
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote:

Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my new
area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop on my
way 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 to me while walking.

Regaards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my IPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside shopping
malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is not only
based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It means,
BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt annoucements according to
that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not
hear direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you
increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clockface
information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from
you. You will probably hear distance and clockface for half of the way there.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas (http://www.indooratlas.com).
With their technology, one can record static magnetic fields inside
buildings. You can then use your mobile devices magnetometer to calculate
fingerprint and get your location inside that building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more
navigation possibilities also inside buildings!

Oh, for those of you on this list like myself who are in the Dallas
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

On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
wrote:

I have earned my badges by using BlindSquare.

On 9/07/2013, at 4:48 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
wrote:

Foursquare itself is

Re: iBooks on OS 10.9 Mavericks Beta

2013-07-12 Thread Les Kriegler

Software that is being tested cannot be discussed on this list. If you do, one 
of the moderators will chastise you in a big way.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Marcus Low low.mar...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All
 
 Has anyone been able to try out iBooks on the Beta of OS 10.9
 Mavericks? I would love to have confirmation that it is fully
 accessible - as one would expect it to be.
 
 Thanks
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It just 
sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want to 
upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a sheep. :)

I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music. Unfortunately 
iTunes Match doesn't cover all my movies, TV shows and, most important of all, 
my audiobooks. These are also all a bit too big for Dropbox so I have to do old 
school 20th Century back ups on the ground. :)

All the same, I think I might end up just getting the Airport Extreme and using 
external HDs for the back ups which I can store off site.

I'll always use Dropbox though as it's so much more than just a cloud back up 
service. In fact, the cloud back up is just a cool side effect. The best part 
is that it keeps all my devices in sync. Create or edit a file on one device 
and the others synchronise within seconds. Plus your back ups are in the cloud. 
Not like Time Capsule back ups which are on site, so if anything bad happens to 
your computer there's a good chance the same will happen to your Time Capsule. 
IN short, I agree with Kawal that Dropbox is so much cooler than Time Capsule.

Thanks for all the tips, Kawal! You're motivating me to pay that extra to get 
an Apple Airport.

Cheers,
Nic

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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

Why not just get the Audible App for the I phone, All my audible books are on 
there. May be in the next update Apple will let us keep our TV shows, Books and 
other stuff in the Cloud. Why not? I did not take any offence, just laughed at 
you. I really love my new AirPort Extreme. So just get it, you know you want to!

On 12 Jul 2013, at 11:52 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It 
 just sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want 
 to upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a sheep. 
 :)
 
 I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music. Unfortunately 
 iTunes Match doesn't cover all my movies, TV shows and, most important of 
 all, my audiobooks. These are also all a bit too big for Dropbox so I have to 
 do old school 20th Century back ups on the ground. :)
 
 All the same, I think I might end up just getting the Airport Extreme and 
 using external HDs for the back ups which I can store off site.
 
 I'll always use Dropbox though as it's so much more than just a cloud back up 
 service. In fact, the cloud back up is just a cool side effect. The best part 
 is that it keeps all my devices in sync. Create or edit a file on one device 
 and the others synchronise within seconds. Plus your back ups are in the 
 cloud. Not like Time Capsule back ups which are on site, so if anything bad 
 happens to your computer there's a good chance the same will happen to your 
 Time Capsule. IN short, I agree with Kawal that Dropbox is so much cooler 
 than Time Capsule.
 
 Thanks for all the tips, Kawal! You're motivating me to pay that extra to get 
 an Apple Airport.
 
 Cheers,
 Nic
 
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

You're so right, I do want to. ;)
In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so get 
an Apple washing machine, dryer, dish washer, AC/heating unit, oven, microwave, 
etcetera. Of course they would all work with VoiceOver and I could control them 
all from the remote app on my iPhone. Sigh. What a dream.
I don't use the audible app that much to be honest. Plus I like to keep offline 
back ups in case audible has copyright issues and blocks me from accessing some 
of my purchased books. I've seen this happen before. I'm so with you though 
about Apple extending iTunes Match to cover all iTunes content. That will be a 
very happy day for me and perhaps the day I give up on 20th Century back ups. :)

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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

2013-07-12 Thread Red.Falcon

Hi!
I'll take one of those washing machines and food nuker right now gimme gimme 
gimme!
Colin

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:09, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 You're so right, I do want to. ;)
 In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so 
 get an Apple washing machine, dryer, dish washer, AC/heating unit, oven, 
 microwave, etcetera. Of course they would all work with VoiceOver and I could 
 control them all from the remote app on my iPhone. Sigh. What a dream.
 I don't use the audible app that much to be honest. Plus I like to keep 
 offline back ups in case audible has copyright issues and blocks me from 
 accessing some of my purchased books. I've seen this happen before. I'm so 
 with you though about Apple extending iTunes Match to cover all iTunes 
 content. That will be a very happy day for me and perhaps the day I give up 
 on 20th Century back ups. :)
 
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

2013-07-12 Thread Mickey Quenzer

Hi:
Can you use the unit to stream media from it?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:

 Why not just get the Audible App for the I phone, All my audible books are on 
 there. May be in the next update Apple will let us keep our TV shows, Books 
 and other stuff in the Cloud. Why not? I did not take any offence, just 
 laughed at you. I really love my new AirPort Extreme. So just get it, you 
 know you want to!
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 11:52 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It 
 just sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want 
 to upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a 
 sheep. :)
 
 I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music. Unfortunately 
 iTunes Match doesn't cover all my movies, TV shows and, most important of 
 all, my audiobooks. These are also all a bit too big for Dropbox so I have 
 to do old school 20th Century back ups on the ground. :)
 
 All the same, I think I might end up just getting the Airport Extreme and 
 using external HDs for the back ups which I can store off site.
 
 I'll always use Dropbox though as it's so much more than just a cloud back 
 up service. In fact, the cloud back up is just a cool side effect. The best 
 part is that it keeps all my devices in sync. Create or edit a file on one 
 device and the others synchronise within seconds. Plus your back ups are in 
 the cloud. Not like Time Capsule back ups which are on site, so if anything 
 bad happens to your computer there's a good chance the same will happen to 
 your Time Capsule. IN short, I agree with Kawal that Dropbox is so much 
 cooler than Time Capsule.
 
 Thanks for all the tips, Kawal! You're motivating me to pay that extra to 
 get an Apple Airport.
 
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 Nic
 
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Re: mail on macbook pro

Hi Janine,

Yes, sorry, I should've been a little more detailed but I was in a rush so took 
some shortcuts. :) By navigate to the right I did mean VO-right arrow, though 
you could of course just press the right arrow with QuickNav turned on or swipe 
right on your TrackPad with the TrackPad commander turned on.

In addition to what Anne said, if you want some emails to be read aloud when 
they arrive but not others, you can choose VIPs from the new message 
notifications pop up menu in the General tab of Mail preferences. You can then 
add certain people to your VIP list and then only incoming messages from those 
people will be read aloud. For this to work though you have to have enabled 
Mail in Notification Centre.

Just ask if any of this doesn't make sense or you have other questions.

Best,
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

Re streaming media: I don't think you can from the Airport Extreme as it 
doesn't have storage. You can use the Airport Express I believe to air play 
media to a media playing device. I believe you can use Time Capsule as a media 
server but I've never done this myself so don't take my word on it. :)  

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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Kawal,

Here's the link for this app:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator

Cheers,

Anne


On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:52, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:

 Wonderful.
 
 How can we get this App or Program?
 
 Kawal. 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
 
 Hello Kawal,
 
 No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get 
 iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:23, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
 
 I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully 
 accessible for the Mac now?
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it 
 very much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I 
 liked the episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some 
 of the episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to 
 find this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download 
 something: GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD 
 programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source 
 for this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not 
 be fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes 
 on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show 
 but can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello Jürgen,

GIA is Get iPlayer Automator and you can't do anything to satisfy it.

Cheers,

Anne


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 Hello Anne,
 
 do you have an idea what GIA exactly is? I don't understand what I'm supposed 
 to do to satisfy GIA. ;-)
 
 All the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 12.07.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I looked for Who do you think you are as well, but no episodes were 
 available. I think they're only available for a week after they're broadcast.
 
 As for the error message, it seems to be a format that GIA doesn't recognise.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:20, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually 
 it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it 
 very much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I 
 liked the episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I found some 
 of the episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to find 
 this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download 
 something: GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD 
 programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source for 
 this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not be 
 fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to programmes 
 on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show 
 but can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
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Re: blind square

There is separate volume setting for Acapela voices in settings. You can
balance volume with VoiceOver using that.

If you favourite a place, then you will hear also arrival and bypass
announcements.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but let me know!

Lähetetty iPhonesta

Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 13.50:

Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare. Now
that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a couple of
ideas.

First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the volume down on my headphones,
and voiceover is very low to the point where I can't hear it when I'm done
that. Also, I got a phone call the other day, and I couldn't hear and I had
to start raising the volume on the headphone before I could talk on the call.
So, I'm not sure what all can be done about this completely, but that would
be beneficial.

Another feature, and I don't know if this is possible, would be to be able to
choose a location that you heard when you were passing it so that you would
be notified when you got there. Or, maybe you could put it on your favorites
right then and there. This is just some ideas.

Regards,
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote:

Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my new
area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop on my
way 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 to me while walking.

Regaards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my IPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside shopping
malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is not only
based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It means,
BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt annoucements according
to that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not
hear direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you
increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clockface
information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from
you. You will probably hear distance and clockface for half of the way
there.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas (http://www.indooratlas.com).
With their technology, one can record static magnetic fields inside
buildings. You can then use your mobile devices magnetometer to calculate
fingerprint and get your location inside that building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more
navigation possibilities also inside buildings!

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hello guys
I foundw out something about BlindSquare yesterday that I was most
impressed with. I almost didn't test it out, because I figured no GPS
program would do this anyway.

Oh, for those of you on this list like myself who are in the Dallas
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

On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
wrote:

I have earned my badges by using BlindSquare.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:30

Re: blind square

2013-07-12 Thread Eugenia Firth

Hi again
I will check out the settings on voiceover like you said, but I think it means
that if I raise the voiceover volume the speech volume on BlindSquare might be
too loud at times. But I will find out.

I know I can do a search and make a place a favorite. However, I had in mind
that you heard something that you didn't know about, so you decide to make it a
favorite 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 ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

There is separate volume setting for Acapela voices in settings. You can
balance volume with VoiceOver using that.

If you favourite a place, then you will hear also arrival and bypass
announcements.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but let me know!

Lähetetty iPhonesta

Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 13.50:

Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare. Now
that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a couple of
ideas.

First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the volume down on my
headphones, and voiceover is very low to the point where I can't hear it
when I'm done that. Also, I got a phone call the other day, and I couldn't
hear and I had to start raising the volume on the headphone before I could
talk on the call. So, I'm not sure what all can be done about this
completely, but that would be beneficial.

Another feature, and I don't know if this is possible, would be to be able
to choose a location that you heard when you were passing it so that you
would be notified when you got there. Or, maybe you could put it on your
favorites right then and there. This is just some ideas.

Regards,
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote:

Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my new
area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop on my
way 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 to me while walking.

Regaards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my IPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside shopping
malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is not only
based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It means,
BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt annoucements according
to that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not
hear direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you
increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clockface
information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from
you. You will probably hear distance and clockface for half of the way
there.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas
(http://www.indooratlas.com). With their technology, one can record static
magnetic fields inside buildings. You can then use your mobile devices
magnetometer to calculate fingerprint and get your location inside that
building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more
navigation possibilities also inside buildings!

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hello guys
I foundw out something about BlindSquare yesterday that I was most
impressed with. I almost didn't test it out, because I figured no GPS
program would do this anyway.

Yesterday, I went to Northpark mall to the Apple Store I left BlindSquare
running. It started telling me about a lot of the stores as I was
passing. The only thing is, and I understand why, it didn't tell me left
or right but it did give distance.

Oh, for those of you on this list like myself who are in the Dallas
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

Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Eugenia Firth

Hi there
I have the combination of  fine reader and VueScan.  I tried doing the OCR with 
ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning. 
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Gigi,
 
 I'm not looking for something like Ipal, a commercial app is fine for my 
 needs.  Do you have a preference over Bootscan or Abbyy Fine Reader? I've 
 used Abbyy in the past under Windows.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Ed 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:39, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
 
 Hi Ed 
 I guess it depends on what you need to do. I have VueScan together with Abby 
 Fine Reader. That works fine for me. 
 
 There is one that I have seen that, if I needed to tons of scanning, I would 
 consider. I saw it once, and I was impressed. HOwever, it's expensive. It is 
 called iPal and it runs with a camera device that takes pictures of the page 
 and gives it back, almost immediately. 
 
 the first two I mentioned are considerably less money and can be gotten from 
 the app store. 
 
 Regards, 
 Gigi
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 The subject line says it all really.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

I so much want that dream, talking washing machine, dryer and so much more!

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:09 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 You're so right, I do want to. ;)
 In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so 
 get an Apple washing machine, dryer, dish washer, AC/heating unit, oven, 
 microwave, etcetera. Of course they would all work with VoiceOver and I could 
 control them all from the remote app on my iPhone. Sigh. What a dream.
 I don't use the audible app that much to be honest. Plus I like to keep 
 offline back ups in case audible has copyright issues and blocks me from 
 accessing some of my purchased books. I've seen this happen before. I'm so 
 with you though about Apple extending iTunes Match to cover all iTunes 
 content. That will be a very happy day for me and perhaps the day I give up 
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Re: The New AirPort Extreme.

No afraid not. You need an AirPort Express.

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:16 PM, Mickey Quenzer mickey.quen...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi:
 Can you use the unit to stream media from it?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
 
 Why not just get the Audible App for the I phone, All my audible books are 
 on there. May be in the next update Apple will let us keep our TV shows, 
 Books and other stuff in the Cloud. Why not? I did not take any offence, 
 just laughed at you. I really love my new AirPort Extreme. So just get it, 
 you know you want to!
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 11:52 AM, Nicholas Parsons 
 mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It 
 just sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want 
 to upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a 
 sheep. :)
 
 I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music. Unfortunately 
 iTunes Match doesn't cover all my movies, TV shows and, most important of 
 all, my audiobooks. These are also all a bit too big for Dropbox so I have 
 to do old school 20th Century back ups on the ground. :)
 
 All the same, I think I might end up just getting the Airport Extreme and 
 using external HDs for the back ups which I can store off site.
 
 I'll always use Dropbox though as it's so much more than just a cloud back 
 up service. In fact, the cloud back up is just a cool side effect. The best 
 part is that it keeps all my devices in sync. Create or edit a file on one 
 device and the others synchronise within seconds. Plus your back ups are in 
 the cloud. Not like Time Capsule back ups which are on site, so if anything 
 bad happens to your computer there's a good chance the same will happen to 
 your Time Capsule. IN short, I agree with Kawal that Dropbox is so much 
 cooler than Time Capsule.
 
 Thanks for all the tips, Kawal! You're motivating me to pay that extra to 
 get an Apple Airport.
 
 Cheers,
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Re: Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Thanks.

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:30 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

 Hello Kawal,
 
 Here's the link for this app:
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:52, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
 
 Wonderful.
 
 How can we get this App or Program?
 
 Kawal. 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
 
 Hello Kawal,
 
 No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get 
 iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:23, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
 
 I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully 
 accessible for the Mac now?
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net 
 wrote:
 
 Hello Anne,
 
 thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. 
 Actually it's Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I 
 like it very much. The BBC helps prominent people to find their family 
 roots. I liked the episode about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I 
 found some of the episodes in You Tube.
 
 But do you know anything of the issue concerning the download problem I 
 wrote?
 
 Thanks and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 11.07.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Jürgen,
 
 I'm afraid it only works consistently for BBC programmes and only a few 
 Channel 4 programmes, so it appears you're unlucky with that one.
 
 I just tried it myself with no success. I don't know anywhere else to 
 find this programme.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:49, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 what great news. Thanks for that. I downloaded it and it seems pretty 
 usable with VO.
 
 You wrote it even works outside the UK. Could you help me please to 
 understand this error message I get when ever I try to download 
 something: GiA did not find a suitable download format for the 4oD 
 programme.
 
 Another related question: I tried to find mor of Who do you think you 
 were but could only find one episode. Do you know of a better source 
 for this series?
 
 Thanks again and
 all the best
 Jürgen
 
 Am 07.07.2013 um 22:42 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
 
 Hello Ed,
 
 The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator
 
 https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
 
 It works even outside the UK.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:08, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Chris,
 
 Does this mean that you can't use BBC iPlayer on the Mac?
 
 Ed
 On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, Chris H christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Ed, that's because Flash is not accessible on the mac and shall not 
 be fixed by either Adobe or Apple.
 
 On 07/07/2013 20:49, Edward Green wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anyone tell me if it's possible to watch or listen to 
 programmes on the BBC iPlayer website using Mac OSX Mountain Lion 
 and Safari?
 
 I can search for episodes, click on the page for the relevant show 
 but can't then find any controls to play the programme etc.
 
 I installed the latest version of Adobe Flash Player but to no 
 avail.
 
 Grateful for any advice.
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Ed
 
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Re: blind square

2013-07-12 Thread Red.Falcon

Hi!
I do believe that one of the options when your on route is to hear again a list
of places you've gone passed!
And if you pick the one you want I suppose it will let you edit it!
Have you heard the podcast [I do not have the link sorry] it tells you all
about hearing that list as well as a lot of other stuff!
HTH Colin

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:50, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:

Hi again
I will check out the settings on voiceover like you said, but I think it
means that if I raise the voiceover volume the speech volume on BlindSquare
might be too loud at times. But I will find out.

I know I can do a search and make a place a favourite. However, I had in
mind that you heard something that you didn't know about, so you decide to
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 ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
wrote:

There is separate volume setting for Acapela voices in settings. You can
balance volume with VoiceOver using that.

If you favourite a place, then you will hear also arrival and bypass
announcements.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but let me know!

Lähetetty iPhonesta

Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 13.50:

Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare. Now
that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a couple of
ideas.

First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the volume down on my
headphones, and voiceover is very low to the point where I can't hear it
when I'm done that. Also, I got a phone call the other day, and I couldn't
hear and I had to start raising the volume on the headphone before I could
talk on the call. So, I'm not sure what all can be done about this
completely, but that would be beneficial.

Another feature, and I don't know if this is possible, would be to be able
to choose a location that you heard when you were passing it so that you
would be notified when you got there. Or, maybe you could put it on your
favourites right then and there. This is just some ideas.

Regards,
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote:

Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my
new area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop
on my way home. Good-bye fat wallet!
When I neared my place, which I have as a favourite, 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 to me while walking.

Regards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my iPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside
shopping malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is
not only based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It
means, BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt announcements
according to that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not
hear direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you
increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clock face
information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from
you. You will probably hear distance and clock face for half of the way
there.

I'm pretty sure that in the future indoor positioning will get better and
better. Couple months ago, Apple acquired a company
(http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/23/apple-buys-indoor-gps-company-wifislam-for-20m)
for 20 million dollars who had working prototype on Android devices.
Their system uses knowledge of wifi radio signals to get location with
accuracy of few meters.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas
(http://www.indooratlas.com). With their technology, one can record static
magnetic fields inside buildings. You can then use your mobile devices
magnetometer to calculate fingerprint and get your location inside that
building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more
navigation possibilities also inside buildings!

On Tue., Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hello guys
I foundw out something about BlindSquare yesterday that I was most
impressed with. I almost didn't test it out, because I figured no GPS
program would do this anyway.

Yesterday, I went to Northpark mall to the Apple Store I left BlindSquare
running. It started telling me about a lot of the stores as I was
passing.

So, this Blindsquare thing...

2013-07-12 Thread Alex Hall

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and 
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or some 
business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this turn-by-turn (I 
doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If I 
need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone else on 
Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

4. How is the accuracy? I realize this will vary wildly from place to place, 
and even due to things like weather and where on your person you carry your 
phone, but in general, how close does it get you to destinations?

Thanks in advance for answers to these. I almost got Blindsquare, then I 
started helping to test the Sendero app and found that Blindsquare would be 
redundant. However, I do not plan on buying the Sendero app, especially with 
walking directions coming to Maps in iOS7, so I am once again considering 
Blindsquare.


Have a great day,
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Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Jamie Pauls

Have you taken a look at dock you scam plus?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:

 Hi there
 I have the combination of  fine reader and VueScan.  I tried doing the OCR 
 with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning. 
 Gigi
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Gigi,
 
 I'm not looking for something like Ipal, a commercial app is fine for my 
 needs.  Do you have a preference over Bootscan or Abbyy Fine Reader? I've 
 used Abbyy in the past under Windows.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Ed 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:39, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
 
 Hi Ed 
 I guess it depends on what you need to do. I have VueScan together with 
 Abby Fine Reader. That works fine for me. 
 
 There is one that I have seen that, if I needed to tons of scanning, I 
 would consider. I saw it once, and I was impressed. HOwever, it's 
 expensive. It is called iPal and it runs with a camera device that takes 
 pictures of the page and gives it back, almost immediately. 
 
 the first two I mentioned are considerably less money and can be gotten 
 from the app store. 
 
 Regards, 
 Gigi
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 The subject line says it all really.
 
 Many thanks,
 
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Voiceover At Startup And Mail

2013-07-12 Thread Ezzie Bueno

Hello List:

It feels great to catch up with the list. I went almost a year without a laptop.
I just got my new Macbook Pro last week. Although I remember how to perform 
most tasks, I do need my memory refreshed on a couple of things:

1) How do I set up VoiceOver to automatically speak at the login window?
2) How do I move to the top of the messages list (or bottom) in mail?

Thank you all for any help that you can offer!

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Re: blind square

Yes, in Tools there is Recent Places. There you get list what you just heard
and then favourite it.

Eugenia, I don't mean voiceover setting. In BlindSquare, go to Other/Settings.
You'll find setting for speech speed and volume.

Lähetetty iPhonesta

Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 15.15:

Hi!
I do believe that one of the options when your on route is to hear again a
list of places you've gone passed!
And if you pick the one you want I suppose it will let you edit it!
Have you heard the podcast [I do not have the link sorry] it tells you all
about hearing that list as well as a lot of other stuff!
HTH Colin

On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:50, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:

Hi again
I will check out the settings on voiceover like you said, but I think it
means that if I raise the voiceover volume the speech volume on BlindSquare
might be too loud at times. But I will find out.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
wrote:

There is separate volume setting for Acapela voices in settings. You can
balance volume with VoiceOver using that.

If you favourite a place, then you will hear also arrival and bypass
announcements.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but let me know!

Lähetetty iPhonesta

Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 13.50:

Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare.
Now that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a
couple of ideas.

First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the volume down on my
headphones, and voiceover is very low to the point where I can't hear it
when I'm done that. Also, I got a phone call the other day, and I couldn't
hear and I had to start raising the volume on the headphone before I could
talk on the call. So, I'm not sure what all can be done about this
completely, but that would be beneficial.

Another feature, and I don't know if this is possible, would be to be able
to choose a location that you heard when you were passing it so that you
would be notified when you got there. Or, maybe you could put it on your
favourites right then and there. This is just some ideas.

Regards,
Gigi

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote:

Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my
new area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop
on my way home. Good-bye fat wallet!
When I neared my place, which I have as a favourite, 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 to me while walking.

Regards,
Cheree Heppe

Sent from my iPhone 4S

On 09/07/2013, at 3:45, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote:

I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside
shopping malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is
not only based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It
means, BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt announcements
according to that.

If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not
hear direction and you will hear word about before distance. If you
increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clock face
information.

You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from
you. You will probably hear distance and clock face for half of the way
there.

I'm pretty sure that in the future indoor positioning will get better and
better. Couple months ago, Apple acquired a company
(http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/23/apple-buys-indoor-gps-company-wifislam-for-20m)
for 20 million dollars who had working prototype on Android devices.
Their system uses knowledge of wifi radio signals to get location with
accuracy of few meters.

In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas
(http://www.indooratlas.com). With their technology, one can record
static magnetic fields inside buildings. You can then use your mobile
devices magnetometer to calculate fingerprint and get your location
inside that building.

So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more
navigation possibilities also inside buildings!

On Tue., Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:

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-turn and
BlindSquare is adding street info, intersections and information about
surrounding places on top of that. In-app turn-by-turn is something that is
planned into future, but superior support for 3rd party apps you might already
have will never go away

2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all your
iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs follow
automatically.

3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and intersections
both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce intersections in high
speed also

4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare place,
t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't know nothing
about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for that or create your
own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the case that accuracy of POI and
your current accuracy is good, it will guide you just to the edge of accuracy
(like 7 meters). That way it can give it's final announcement with clockface
information about direction

To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer
Lähetetty iPadista

Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 15.47:

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or some
business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this turn-by-turn
(I doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If I
need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone else
on Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

4. How is the accuracy? I realize this will vary wildly from place to place,
and even due to things like weather and where on your person you carry your
phone, but in general, how close does it get you to destinations?

Thanks in advance for answers to these. I almost got Blindsquare, then I
started helping to test the Sendero app and found that Blindsquare would be
redundant. However, I do not plan on buying the Sendero app, especially with
walking directions coming to Maps in iOS7, so I am once again considering
Blindsquare.

Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
mehg...@gmail.com

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Re: Voiceover At Startup And Mail

For speech at login go to the System Preferences and then Users  
Groups. Near the very bottom you'll find a 'click the lock to make 
changes' button which you will then authenticate with your Mac's admin 
password. Once that's done you can interact with the Users, Groups and 
Login Options list. At the bottom of the list is Login Options. 
Select this, stop interacting and then VO right a bunch of times until 
you find the Use VoiceOver in the login window checkbox. Turn that on 
and you should be all set.


CB

On 7/12/13 9:16 AM, Ezzie Bueno wrote:

Hello List:

It feels great to catch up with the list. I went almost a year without a laptop.
I just got my new Macbook Pro last week. Although I remember how to perform 
most tasks, I do need my memory refreshed on a couple of things:

1) How do I set up VoiceOver to automatically speak at the login window?
2) How do I move to the top of the messages list (or bottom) in mail?

Thank you all for any help that you can offer!

Ezzie Bueno




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Re: iBooks on OS 10.9 Mavericks Beta

To put it more gently, any developer who signs up to beta test new stuff 
from Apple also signs a non-disclosure agreement saying that they can't 
talk about the stuff, good or bad, until it is released publicly. That's 
what makes it so amusing to read reviews of iOS 7 and OSX 10.9 where the 
actual facts are so minimal that it's all conjecture. To reveal any more 
would violate the NDA. At the moment, the only info we have legitimately 
is what Apple has released. Everybody else who could say isn't allowed to.


CB

On 7/12/13 6:51 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:

Software that is being tested cannot be discussed on this list. If you do, one 
of the moderators will chastise you in a big way.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Marcus Low low.mar...@gmail.com wrote:


Hi All

Has anyone been able to try out iBooks on the Beta of OS 10.9
Mavericks? I would love to have confirmation that it is fully
accessible - as one would expect it to be.

Thanks
Marcus

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Re: Character size in Keynote

To paste text without carrying along the formatting do a 
command-option-shift-v. Then the text will be pasted but inherit the 
formatting already set at the location you are pasting it. This same 
command works in lots of apps, not just keynote.


CB

On 7/12/13 3:42 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote:

Hello all:
I just wanted to know how can I get a good size of characters in 
Keynote, so the slide is correct visually speaking. How can I change 
this size? In the inspector I see the size too big, and when I paste 
the content of the slide from Textedit, it becomes too small.

Can you suggest a get around this please? I will appreciate it very much.

Best
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iPhone: +34662328507








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Re: windows address book


Here are steps I'm pasting from the MacWorld site:

(1) The Outlook addresses should show up in the Windows Address Book (WAB)

(2) Open the Windows Address Book (Start - Programs - Accessories - 
Address Book)


(3) Create a new folder on your desktop

(4) Drag the address cards from the WAB to the folder you created - they 
will be in the vCard format


(5) Copy this folder to your Mac (via a network, email, iPod, USB drive) etc

(6) On the Mac, drag the vCards from the folder to the Address Book

(7) You're done - only takes a few minutes.

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how can I get my mac to import a windows address book .wab file?
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Re: Vacation mode

Well, your login name should be the email address you're getting these
emails from. I think there is a password reset link somewhere on that
login form so if you don't know it you should be able to set another one.

On 7/10/13 6:04 PM, Agent086b wrote:

Thanks, I am aware of doing it online but I can't remember my log on details.
That is why I am trying to do it via email.
Max.

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I haven't tried it but in the groups.google.com page there is a My Settings popup button and that
gives a menu with several items including Membership and email settings. If you do this you'll get
a dialog and if you VO-right a bunch of times you'll find a popup button which lets you change your
settings. Mine says Send me an email dor every new message (about 58 per day) but if
you VO-space on that and arrow up and down you'll find one of the options is Don't send email
updates. So if you pick that and then VO-right to the Save button they should stop sending
you mail. This is also where you can change to digest mode to get one big email with all the day's
stuff. I personally like the separate messages.

On 7/9/13 8:38 PM, Agent086b wrote:

Hello all,
I am sure this comes up often but I must have list an email that answers my
question.
Is it possible to set a nomail option for GoogleGroups?
Thanks for any advice.

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weird error message from Terminal

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Baxter

Hi. Up til now, I've used an exercise timer written in BASH script without any 
problems.  It has a line in it which calls out the percentage of completion and 
number of loops at every interval.  Lately, I'm getting this error instead of 
the time announcement:

MTBEAudioUnitSoundOutput::PropagateProperty Error -10851

can someone tell me what that means, why I am getting it now after using this 
program unchanged for years, and how to fix it?

Thanks.


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Re: weird error message from Terminal


There is a discussion thread about it here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5110118?start=0tstart=0

Seems to stem from some combination of downloaded voices and the say 
command with the 10.8.4 update and possible some anti-virus problems 
(virus barrier).


CB

On 7/12/13 11:26 AM, Mark Baxter wrote:

Hi. Up til now, I've used an exercise timer written in BASH script without any 
problems.  It has a line in it which calls out the percentage of completion and 
number of loops at every interval.  Lately, I'm getting this error instead of 
the time announcement:

MTBEAudioUnitSoundOutput::PropagateProperty Error -10851

can someone tell me what that means, why I am getting it now after using this 
program unchanged for years, and how to fix it?

Thanks.


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Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen

Hi.

Yesterday or the day before, there was an update to prizmo for mac. There are 
some VoiceOver improvements and some improvements with scanners and scan and 
recognize multiple pages. I have not had the time for testing it out. But maybe 
there will be something useable in the near future. I will have to say, that I 
do not like the finereader for mac. I am using vmware and finereader 11. I 
would have loved it, if OCR was good enough on the mac site, but I my opinion 
it isn't. But again let us see, how good prizmo will be in the near future.

Cheers Annie.
Den Jul 12, 2013 kl. 3:12 PM skrev Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com:

 Have you taken a look at dock you scam plus?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
 
 Hi there
 I have the combination of  fine reader and VueScan.  I tried doing the OCR 
 with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning. 
 Gigi
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Gigi,
 
 I'm not looking for something like Ipal, a commercial app is fine for my 
 needs.  Do you have a preference over Bootscan or Abbyy Fine Reader? I've 
 used Abbyy in the past under Windows.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Ed 
 On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:39, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
 
 Hi Ed 
 I guess it depends on what you need to do. I have VueScan together with 
 Abby Fine Reader. That works fine for me. 
 
 There is one that I have seen that, if I needed to tons of scanning, I 
 would consider. I saw it once, and I was impressed. HOwever, it's 
 expensive. It is called iPal and it runs with a camera device that takes 
 pictures of the page and gives it back, almost immediately. 
 
 the first two I mentioned are considerably less money and can be gotten 
 from the app store. 
 
 Regards, 
 Gigi
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 The subject line says it all really.
 
 Many thanks,
 
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Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello Annie,

I tested Prizmo for Mac quite recently and the OCR results were dreadful! I 
don't know what your problem is with ABBYY FineReader for Mac as it produces 
really good results for me in both English and French. Although I must admit, 
the results are less good when I use FineReader to do the scanning rather than 
VueScan. After all, VueScan has been designed to produce the best possible 
images for people who work with images professionally.

Cheers,

Anne


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 Hi.
 
 Yesterday or the day before, there was an update to prizmo for mac. There are 
 some VoiceOver improvements and some improvements with scanners and scan and 
 recognize multiple pages. I have not had the time for testing it out. But 
 maybe there will be something useable in the near future. I will have to say, 
 that I do not like the finereader for mac. I am using vmware and finereader 
 11. I would have loved it, if OCR was good enough on the mac site, but I my 
 opinion it isn't. But again let us see, how good prizmo will be in the near 
 future.
 
 Cheers Annie.

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Re: weird error message from Terminal

2013-07-12 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter

Interestingly, I have tried everything on this discussion thread, with the 
exception of the fact that I am still using the Samantha voice which came with 
OS X lion. The summation seems to be that it is a bug inherent with 10.8.4, and 
should go away with Mavericks or whatever comes next.

Oh well. Guess I'll just live with it.

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On Jul 12, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote:

 There is a discussion thread about it here:
 
 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5110118?start=0tstart=0
 
 Seems to stem from some combination of downloaded voices and the say command 
 with the 10.8.4 update and possible some anti-virus problems (virus barrier).
 
 CB
 
 On 7/12/13 11:26 AM, Mark Baxter wrote:
 Hi. Up til now, I've used an exercise timer written in BASH script without 
 any problems.  It has a line in it which calls out the percentage of 
 completion and number of loops at every interval.  Lately, I'm getting this 
 error instead of the time announcement:
 
 MTBEAudioUnitSoundOutput::PropagateProperty Error -10851
 
 can someone tell me what that means, why I am getting it now after using 
 this program unchanged for years, and how to fix it?
 
 Thanks.
 
 
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Recovery mode help and voiceover

2013-07-12 Thread Emilio Hernandez

Hello everyone,

I want to reformat my iMac, but when entrain recovery mode I cannot get 
voiceover to run.
I have done this before, so I know what I am doing. Does anyone have any 
suggestions?
I do not have an installed version of Mountain lion on a flash drive, so I use 
the downloadable version upon a successful you race of my hard drive.

Thank you for any help anyone can provide.

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Re: Recovery mode help and voiceover

2013-07-12 Thread Tim Kilburn

Hi,

I'm wondering if the VO volume is down too  low to hear.  Try turning it on, 
then pressing VO-cmd-right arrow twice then VO-cmd-up arrow a few times.  If 
the volume is down too low, this will increase the volume.  If you're not sure 
if this turned VO on or off, try turning on VO again and doing the same process.

Later...

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wrote:

 Hello everyone,
 
 I want to reformat my iMac, but when entrain recovery mode I cannot get 
 voiceover to run.
 I have done this before, so I know what I am doing. Does anyone have any 
 suggestions?
 I do not have an installed version of Mountain lion on a flash drive, so I 
 use the downloadable version upon a successful you race of my hard drive.
 
 Thank you for any help anyone can provide.
 
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Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

2013-07-12 Thread Alex Hall

Wow, very impressive! Thanks for the quick response, and I'll certainly give
that podcast a listen. I understand about the accuracy, but I will say this:
with Sendero's app, my accuracy was almost alwasy 16 or 33 feet (about 5 to 10
meters) so you might be able to get better than 7 meters in may cases. I don't
know how all this works, I am simply letting you know that it may be possible.
On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com 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 BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you
will get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving turn-by-turn and
BlindSquare is adding street info, intersections and information about
surrounding places on top of that. In-app turn-by-turn is something that is
planned into future, but superior support for 3rd party apps you might
already have will never go away

2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all your
iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs follow
automatically.

3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and intersections
both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce intersections in high
speed also

4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare
place, t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't know
nothing about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for that or
create your own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the case that
accuracy of POI and your current accuracy is good, it will guide you just to
the edge of accuracy (like 7 meters). That way it can give it's final
announcement with clockface information about direction

To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer
Lähetetty iPadista

Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 15.47:

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or
some business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this
turn-by-turn (I doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If
I need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone
else on Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
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bbd accessibility guide

2013-07-12 Thread jean parker

Hello:
Several weeks ago someone posted a document from the BBC on making web sites 
accessible for screen readers.  I saved that document at the time but try as I 
might I simply can not find it.  Could the person who posted it either repost 
it or tell me where I can find it on the internet?
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Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

2013-07-12 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen

Hi Anne.

Ok this is interesting. I recognized a cookbook with prizmo some time ago, and 
it was quite good 1/2 where correct an so on, that will not happen with 
finereader.

I contacted prizmo a while back, and they will allow a3 scanning on the mac in 
a future release.

I am not getting quite good results with vuescan, I think it is because of 
something we can not see.

What I do not like about finereader express on the mac is that it not always 
handles double sided scannings correct, I like that fact that finereader 11 can 
split double pages. I also dislike that finereader for mac only can scan 1 page 
at a time.

Interesting to see if the next release of finereader professional will be 
released for the mac, I would love it if that happened.

Cheers Annie.
Den Jul 12, 2013 kl. 6:32 PM skrev Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:

 Hello Annie,
 
 I tested Prizmo for Mac quite recently and the OCR results were dreadful! I 
 don't know what your problem is with ABBYY FineReader for Mac as it produces 
 really good results for me in both English and French. Although I must admit, 
 the results are less good when I use FineReader to do the scanning rather 
 than VueScan. After all, VueScan has been designed to produce the best 
 possible images for people who work with images professionally.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Anne
 
 
 On 12 Jul 2013, at 18:12, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 Hi.
 
 Yesterday or the day before, there was an update to prizmo for mac. There 
 are some VoiceOver improvements and some improvements with scanners and scan 
 and recognize multiple pages. I have not had the time for testing it out. 
 But maybe there will be something useable in the near future. I will have to 
 say, that I do not like the finereader for mac. I am using vmware and 
 finereader 11. I would have loved it, if OCR was good enough on the mac 
 site, but I my opinion it isn't. But again let us see, how good prizmo will 
 be in the near future.
 
 Cheers Annie.
 
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Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Arrigo

Original message:
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-turn and BlindSquare is adding street info,
intersections and information about surrounding places on top of that.
In-app turn-by-turn is something that is planned into future, but
superior support for 3rd party apps you might already have will never go away

2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all
your iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs
follow automatically.

3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and
intersections both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce
intersections in high speed also

4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare
place, t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't
know nothing about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for
that or create your own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the
case that accuracy of POI and your current accuracy is good, it will
guide you just to the edge of accuracy (like 7 meters). That way it can
give it's final announcement with clockface information about direction

To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer
Lähetetty iPadista
Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com mailto:mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti
12.7.2013 kello 15.47:

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app,
and clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home,
or some business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this
turn-by-turn (I doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare
account? If I need such an account, can I not have my location
broadcast to everyone else on Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

4. How is the accuracy? I realize this will vary wildly from place to
place, and even due to things like weather and where on your person you
carry your phone, but in general, how close does it get you to destinations?

Thanks in advance for answers to these. I almost got Blindsquare, then
I started helping to test the Sendero app and found that Blindsquare
would be redundant. However, I do not plan on buying the Sendero app,
especially with walking directions coming to Maps in iOS7, so I am once
again considering Blindsquare.

Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
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vm and del

2013-07-12 Thread wayne17a

Hello ,all I just received my vm disc from del and when I installed it I was
asked for a product key but could not find one so when I rang del I was told
I had to purchase a key so has anyone else had the same problem and is that
right because I thought you could get the app for free and then buy a key so
did anybody get a product key from del thanks in advance

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Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

2013-07-12 Thread Ray Foret jr

Gee wizz. Three apps just to get around? Better just to use a cane or guide
dog then right? I mean, three apps just to get around? Ain't that getting
just a bit cumbersome?

Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!

On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote:

This leads to a question, when launching the third party apps for navigation,
is it specified what type of root to create, driving, walking, etc? Or does
the third party app use whatever is set as the default?
Original message:
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-turn and
BlindSquare is adding street info, intersections and information about
surrounding places on top of that. In-app turn-by-turn is something that is
planned into future, but superior support for 3rd party apps you might
already have will never go away

2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all your
iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs follow
automatically.

3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and intersections
both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce intersections in high
speed also

4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare
place, t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't know
nothing about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for that or
create your own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the case that
accuracy of POI and your current accuracy is good, it will guide you just to
the edge of accuracy (like 7 meters). That way it can give it's final
announcement with clockface information about direction

To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer
Lähetetty iPadista
Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com mailto:mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013
kello 15.47:

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or
some business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this
turn-by-turn (I doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If
I need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone
else on Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
mehg...@gmail.com mailto:mehg...@gmail.com

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Re: Can anyone recommend an accessible OCR program for Mac OSX?

Hello Annie,

When you say that ABBYY FineReader doesn't handle double-sided pages, do you 
mean that it mixes up the order? I scan the left and right sides at the same 
time, and it always gets them right. However, I don't use FineReader to do the 
scanning, I use the paid version of VueScan which does not leave a watermark. 
The watermark left by the unpaid version of VueScan confuses FineReader to the 
point where it produces rubbish.

Cheers,

Anne


On 12 Jul 2013, at 19:49, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Anne.
 
 Ok this is interesting. I recognized a cookbook with prizmo some time ago, 
 and it was quite good 1/2 where correct an so on, that will not happen with 
 finereader.
 
 I contacted prizmo a while back, and they will allow a3 scanning on the mac 
 in a future release.
 
 I am not getting quite good results with vuescan, I think it is because of 
 something we can not see.
 
 What I do not like about finereader express on the mac is that it not always 
 handles double sided scannings correct, I like that fact that finereader 11 
 can split double pages. I also dislike that finereader for mac only can scan 
 1 page at a time.
 
 Interesting to see if the next release of finereader professional will be 
 released for the mac, I would love it if that happened.
 
 Cheers Annie.

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Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

Thank you for this info. IPhone5 and any external device I have tried, reports
best accuracy of 5 meters. I never give instructions about direction if you are
closer than reported accuracy. My strategy is to get to the edge of accuracy
to be able to report last direction. So, you should be able to know direction
where to go and actually get closer than this last reported direction.

Lähetetty iPadista

Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 20.44:

Wow, very impressive! Thanks for the quick response, and I'll certainly give
that podcast a listen. I understand about the accuracy, but I will say this:
with Sendero's app, my accuracy was almost alwasy 16 or 33 feet (about 5 to
10 meters) so you might be able to get better than 7 meters in may cases. I
don't know how all this works, I am simply letting you know that it may be
possible.
On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com
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 BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you
will get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving turn-by-turn and
BlindSquare is adding street info, intersections and information about
surrounding places on top of that. In-app turn-by-turn is something that is
planned into future, but superior support for 3rd party apps you might
already have will never go away

2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all your
iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs follow
automatically.

3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and
intersections both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce
intersections in high speed also

4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare
place, t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't know
nothing about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for that or
create your own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the case that
accuracy of POI and your current accuracy is good, it will guide you just to
the edge of accuracy (like 7 meters). That way it can give it's final
announcement with clockface information about direction

To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users

BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer
Lähetetty iPadista

Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 15.47:

Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:

1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or
some business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this
turn-by-turn (I doubt it) or a getting warmer method?

2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If
I need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone
else on Foursquare or Twitter?

3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know.

4. How is the accuracy? I realize this will vary wildly from place to
place, and even due to things like weather and where on your person you
carry your phone, but in general, how close does it get you to destinations?

Thanks in advance for answers to these. I almost got Blindsquare, then I
started helping to test the Sendero app and found that Blindsquare would be
redundant. However, I do not plan on buying the Sendero app, especially
with walking directions coming to Maps in iOS7, so I am once again
considering Blindsquare.

Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
mehg...@gmail.com

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