Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

is of the approximate area. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Tammy tcl...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, Can you check in there on foursquare as well and have it show up publicly as home or whatever you've called it? Tammy -Original Message- From: Ilkka Pirttimaa Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012

Re: Blindsquare (was Best GPS for me?)

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

it for walking and get constent prompt to my destonation. Thank you in advance. - Original Message - From: Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.**com macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Best GPS for me

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

in the car with a friend and it did anounce when he was at the diferent streets as well as the stores in view. I just want to know how i can use it for walking and get constent prompt to my destonation. Thank you in advance. - Original Message - From: Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: Best GPS for me?

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

Re: How Best to Track My placees

announced, as well as the tracked location of 0 feet. I thought tracking a location meant the closer you got, the smaller the distance to the location? Please explain how this works. Thanks. Les On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! When you

Re: Best GPS for me?

free. /Krister 2 nov 2012 kl. 20:03 skrev Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com: Great, I'll study that and I already have some ideas... On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Juan Pablo jpcula...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I understand. But with the new 6.1 won’t be necessary bs launches

Re: How Best to Track My placees

Dyer matthewdyer...@msn.com wrote: How much is this app? Is there a way to try it first before I buy? Matthew On Nov 3, 2012, at 1:23 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: When you select a target, it reports your distance and clock face to that target. When you were on a bus, were you sitting close

Re: How Best to Track My placees

it uses? i want to upgrade my plan accordingly. thank you mauricio On Nov 3, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: It's 15 USD. You pay it once and use it forever. Big part of the price is it's own TTS that some users love and someone would like that it would use

Re: Blindsquare again

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

Re: Blind Square again

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

Re: Bone conduction your phones with iPhone

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

Re: i phone users.

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

Re: i phone users.

, for instance, my house is at 1019, but the program thinks I'm at 1015, which, by the way, is better than some GPS programs I've used. So far, this is the only thing that I had trouble with. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Regards, Gigi On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti

Re: blind square on android

the way they do on IOS, especially because more and more blind people are starting to use this platform On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello you all! Thank you Eugenia for this nice posting where you describe so well the level of independence

Re: i phone users.

know about 15 minutes, maybe I'll just leave it alone since I have a for S iPhone. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 29, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! This has nothing to do with if it detects if you are home or not, it is just that you

Re: i phone users.

about. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 29, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, try that out. The thing you describe is something that app has no control of, so it's iOS feature/problem. I believe you can't stop any other app either? On Sat

Re: i phone users.

over. I have had to restart the phone before to make the app switcher behave properly after this. Regards, GG Sent from my iPhone On Jun 29, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Eugenia! I have not able to reproduce this. To understand it better

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

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

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

to sleep. Why can't blind square wake up automatically when you start moving? On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: That's one of the things that will improve in future. Now you can always shake to ask your current location. Sent from my iPhone

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

when you start moving? On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: That's one of the things that will improve in future. Now you can always shake to ask your current location. Sent from my iPhone On 8.7.2013, at 12.14, Krister Ekstrom kris

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

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

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

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

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

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

Re: My comparison of the scene live GPS and BlindSquare

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

Re: blind square

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

Re: blind square

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

Re: blind square

. 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

Re: blind square

. 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

Re: blind square

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

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

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

: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

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

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

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

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

Re: So, this Blindsquare thing...

Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean about structured discovery? Lähetetty iPhonesta Ray Foret jr rfore...@att.net kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 23.11: Me, I'd rather use structured

Re: blind square

of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

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

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

because it's new. I have discovered that I would rather send co-ordinates from BlindSquare than type the address in to Navigon. I like its searches better. Regards, Gigi On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com wrote: Have you listened this: http

Re: a small gps victory

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

Re: Gps finds the way

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

Re: Gps finds the way

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

Re: Gps finds the way

. On Sep 1, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: Jessica, price is USD 24 for that fun but it's one time fee and updates are free. Even that podcast was outdated since I have had 2 or 3 updates after that, so now you have also possibility to use your Contacts lists, read Foursquare

Re: Gps finds the way

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

Re: Gps finds the way

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

Re: motionXgps drive.

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

Re: motionXgps drive.

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

Re: Blind Square - help getting started please

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

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

Have you rebooted your phone? Br On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I just had the same thing happened to me on my 5S also. I was running BlindSquare, and my phone went dead. At least, it might as well as them. I can get Siri to answer me, but

Re: blind square help.

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

Re: Plantronics Voyager legend and Blindsquare

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

Re: Need an iPhone GPS solution

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

Re: BlindSquare V3.00 is out.

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

Re: Braille on the Mac

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

Re: Uber Questions

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

Re: Walking directions in the United States

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

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

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

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

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

Re: Nearby Explorer vs. Blind Square?

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

Re: BlindSquare clockface directions

Hello! When you are walking, direction comes from GPS changes, so then there is no matter how device is positioned. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Christina wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Everytime I use blindSquare when walking, it will announce a POI at say 2 >