Yes, we need a good decent OCR Package for the I phone as none of them have
worked for me.
Kawal.
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I tried using this app a couple of days ago and got it to scan, but could
never make any sense out of the results. Prismo is
does anyone know of an app that will read these files?
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Hi all. In one of my posts on Thursday or Friday, can't remember what
day it was, I said that I was going to demo a Siri-like app called
Voice Answer today in the Quick Learning Techie Show Podcast. Because I
was invited to a friend's house today, the demo will happen next
Saturday if there's
Ok, since there are several people who regularly report that they get very
useable results from both apps mentioned, the statement that they do not work
is clearly false. I have written how to use Prizmo several times on this list.
There is a write-up on applevis.com. These apps require lots
Hello shawn:
if you don't mind me asking, what's the Quick Learning Techie Show
Podcast about?
Is there a link to subscribe?
thanks
On 1/27/2013 1:37 AM, BBS wrote:
Hi all. In one of my posts on Thursday or Friday, can't remember what
day it was, I said that I was going to demo a Siri-like
Hi, just an FYI, I believe that Speed Dots is the manufacturer, but AT
Guys is a re-seller. So, in that sense, both you and Alan are correct.
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Hi all.
I am wondering if is a way to make the iPhone send a automatic text message,
when It receive a text message from someone else. iPhone can do it? or is any
app that can do it automaticly
Something like if someone send a text message to me, my phone send back to the
sender a text message
Hi Pablo,
To my best knowledge this is not possible.
The closest you will probably get would be to setup a keyboard shortcut in
Settings, General, Keyboards.
Maybe you would reply by typing only brn and have it expand to something
like Sorry, I'm busy right now and will get back to you
HI all:
Don't know why but when I open zello, it always comes from the phone
speaker, and the voice over also can not come from the loud speaker,
Why is this, and how can I make zello acts like any other programs?
Cheers:
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If music be the food of love... play on.
Mobile:
hmm, thanks Sieghard
P
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:17 AM
Subject: RE: automatic text message
Hi Pablo,
To my best knowledge this is not possible.
The closest you will probably get
It's my day to be challenged. I have never seen this problem before. I have had
this earpiece paired with my phone once and it was successful. Now, when I try
to use it, one of two things occurs. I turn on the headset knowing that
Bluetooth is on in the settings on my phone. The headset says
I find this to be the case as well. though some external links don't show
up in Voicebook that I want to access, most do and it is easier. I just
don't always have tmie to go through my newsfeed on both apps.
have a blessed day,
Nicki
If you enjoy college football or the NFL, come join
Yeah that's the thing about Voidebook. It's really clunky to add comments.
If you want to add one, you double tap and then add but then if you want to
like or read them you have to do it again each time.
have a blessed day,
Nicki
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which GpsApps have you tried?
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:55 AM
Subject: Possible Conflict Involving VoiceOver and Some GPS Apps
Greetings to the list.
I am evaluating some GPS
Hi Keith,
Double -tap the bookmark button in the upper right corner of the screen.
Nothing will change except that that button is now called, Remove bookmark.
Best,
Anna
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On Jan 26, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
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I’ve
Hello, Pablo.
I have tried Google Maps and MapQuest so far. If I lose the ap's
internal voice guide, toggling VoiceOver from one state to the other
will restore it. As I said, I don't even know if the problem is real.
The phenomenon may be being triggered by an action I am performing
without
Hi Christine,
You can try doing a reset. Turn on the headset, then press and hold volume
up, down, and the function button all at once and let up. You should hear
resetting ... You might also try taking the information for the Q2 out of
your phone first.
After you do this, you can try pairing
Hi Craig
Well, I don't know those apps yet, even though I work with navigon and
motionX gps, and when I try to do those things, voice over allways work
fine. Just these apps makes my iPhone a little bit slower. I am talking
about a iPhone 4s, so I don't know how it goes in iPhone 5. But no
Hello Kristeen,
Sorry this response is so late. Just catching up to list emails. If
you are talking about iTunes on the computer then there is no built in way to
speed up play back. However, it can be done. Some time ago Esther posted
directions on how to use a script that uses
The one feature I do like a lot in Voicebook is how they display the
comments in a picker fashion where one can quickly cycle through them. I've
found this to be much more efficient than how the other various apps handle
the comments section. Especially for those postings that have a large number
How do I tell Status Report to fetch new statuses from Facebook? I like the
apps presentation, but cannot figure out how to refresh the content.
K.
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Hmmm, I had no idea about that four-finger swipe gesture. I'll try that out. It
would be fun to switch apps that way, if that's how it works.
Teresa
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If you search the list archive, we had a recent thread on this topic.
Basically, the upshot is that you can convert the files to pdf or epub and read
them with a Braille display only. No speech.
HtH,
Teresa
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:23 AM, adam morris li...@damorris.com
Looks like you may be right. They have a twitter account which I
found at:
https://mobile.twitter.com/taptapsee
And, if one reads through the tweets there, they indicate a
combination of database algorithm and crowdsourcing being used.
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I got through the first four pages but I can't get it to scan at all.
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I
I have seen this mentioned in the options for Navigon, and just now saw it in
the settings for Feedler RSS reader.
I am just wondering what this is.
All thanks!
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When I'm in Zello, I find a button that says Speaker. Did you try
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 6:27 AM, Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com wrote:
HI all:
Don't know why but when I open zello, it
At night your display is dimmed while in night mode. This is to help while you
are driving. Not much help for us.
HTH
On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Eric sseri...@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen this mentioned in the options for Navigon, and just now saw it in
the settings for Feedler RSS
Night mode usually applies to the brightness of the screen. At night you
don't need the screen as bright as you would in the middle od a sunny day.
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There is a refresh button on the latest update. Also, you can double tap and
hold at the top of the screen. After the tri tones, flick dowwn.
Hope this helps,
Jenn
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Kevin W. rvacounse...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I tell Status Report to fetch
Hi,
This only will work on a mac, but still pertains very much so to the iPhone, so
I thought some of you might be interested. I figured out a very round-about way
to save pictures from text messages to my computer without disabling voiceover
on my phone. First, I had to go to the place in the
How to delete apps that are in your purchased and did not work?
When you go into the app store and reinstall an app, how can you delete apps
that did not work or you don't want any longer
Typed with Fleksy
Reggie and Brooks
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link. This is how you get your money back.
I hope this is what you were looking for.
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Regina Alvarado reggie.alvar...@gmail.com wrote:
How to delete apps that
It sounds like you need to reset the earpiece. The instructions will hopefully
tell you how to do this.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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On 28/01/2013, at 2:26, Kristeen Hughes khwi...@gmail.com wrote:
It's my day to be
Hi,
I've been using an iPhone for a couple of years and love it. I'm
thinking about adding an iPad mini to my life.
What does an iPad mini do that an iPhone does not?
Thank you,
Kim
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How are you toggling VO?
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On 28/01/2013, at 3:40, Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Craig
Well, I don't know those apps yet, even though I work with navigon and
motionX gps,
I believe it is just for the iPad.
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On 28/01/2013, at 5:09, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm, I had no idea about that four-finger swipe gesture. I'll try that out.
It
Not exactly but good information. I want to know how to take the name out of
the list for all the apps you have downloaded. I downloaded Fleksy again
because of bizarre behavior and it was a very long list to go through to find
Fleksy. By the way, downloading again made no difference. Still
Eric,
I disagree with the other responders, although i can no longer see to validate
this answer, when I could see, night mode in GPS products did the following:
In day mode the background would usually be a bright colour, say white, with
streets being black, green and other colours
Hi Raul gallegos where can i find the beep beep game, ore what is it called?
to the iphone
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Hi Kim,
You may want to check the archive for iPad Mini as there have been a few
discussions since the iPad Mini was released in late October.
Anyhow, basically the iPad Mini can't really do a lot the iPhone can't do
except that there are some iPad specific apps which you may or may not find
Hi Reggie,
You don't have to go through the list of purchased apps to find one you want
to reinstall. Just use the regular Search tab to the left of the Update tab
at the bottom right of the task bar. Then you would simply search for Fleksy
and since your phone knows you already purchased it,
How do you do this using the i phone 4s? I can't remember and trying to
search on google isn't giving me much either.
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Hi,
I've been really curious about using Pages with a Braille display, so I began
playing with it the other day while I was on the way home from work.
Using my iPhone 4 with a BrailleNote Apex, I was able to use the Pages app to
create a document, then e-mail the document to myself. The
Hi listers,
I had a strange problem today: I have a 4S. Today I wanted to turn on Voice
Over by using Itunes on the Iphone 5 of a friend. Obviously, it recognized it
as my second telephone and copied my data including my directory to 5. However,
she already had her directory on 5 before. We
Hi, Everyone.
I'm awful at typing on my iTouch, but need to be able to do it in case I
don't have my braille display handy. Is it possible to correct my mistakes
as I go, or do I have to wait till I'm done and then get back in to the
field to do it?
How do I go about correcting my many
Press the home button twice, and you should reach the app switcher. Now flick
right with three fingers to go to the previous page. You should find your
screen orientation there, and you can press the button to change it.
HtH,
Teresa
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Hi,
There is a delete key on the bottom of the screen that allows you to delete the
last character typed.
Jenn
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Dani L Pagador axs@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Everyone.
I’m awful at typing on my iTouch, but need to be able to do it in case I
Hey,
does Status Report allow you to click on the links that the FB app does not?
if so, may put it back on my phone.
have a blessed day,
Nicki
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Hi,
Lift up the top end of the phone, the end with the Power button. The
orientation will switch to Portrait.
Best,
Anna
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Rebecca Ilniski rilni...@gmail.com wrote:
How do you do this using the i phone 4s? I can't remember and trying to
Also, as you're moving character by character, you can use the delete
key to delete the character to the left of the cursor and then insert
the proper character. If you're used to the Windows cursor, this may
take some getting used to on the iPhone.
The pinch gesture and the roter can also be
This discussion comes up from time to time, and there are many variables.
There were similar discussions on the KNFB reader list. lighting is
important because you are not using a scanner that has its own light source.
Distance between the camera and the reading material is important, along
I very much enjoyed doing email on the iPad versus the iPhone. Also, in many
apps there are listings on the left, and specifics on the right. For example,
your list of messages are on the left, and when you choose a person who sent
you a message, the conversation is on the right. There is no
Glare is also a factor. I have found it gelpful to place something black,
like a piece of black cloth under the reading material.
Andy
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Yes,
1) With the rotor you can only navigate by character, word, and line. However,
dots 1 3 5 chord with space bar scrolls right one page; dots 2 4 6 chord
scrolls left one page; dots 1 4 5 6 chord scrolls up one page; and dots 3 4 5 6
chord scrolls down one page. In most circumstances, page equals
Do the mac book pro have voice over?
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Hi,
Yes.
Cheers,
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Do the mac book pro have voice over?
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I downloaded the app that is essentially recipes from this wonderful
cookbook.
I can find a recipe ok but then there's a problem. If the recipe calls for
one half teaspoon of cinnamon and one half cup brown sugar, VoiceOver reads
the one half teaspoon and the :one half cup parts, but skips
I have some old photos that are on drop box from when I had my iPhone 4.
Now, they show up in my camera uploads, but I cannot get them into the
camera roll on my phone. Does this make sense? I go passed them, and they
won't say anything, so I turned voice over off and tapped on the screen,
then
Since the names are in little boxes, it's possible they are using pictures of
the words taken from other sources. If so, there is nothing you can do.
I like the all recipes app, the Mexican recipes app, and a few others.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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Yes, activated with Command-F5. I have a 2012 13 inch model without
retina display and love it.
Christopher Hallsworth
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Hi,
I decided to uninstall and then install the app again in order not to select
location services on. It appears to me that the responses are somewhat
slower than when the location services was turned on. However, I rather
put up with the slower responsiveness, if it protects me. Has others
Since the app uses crowd sourcing at least in part to provide responses, there
likely will be some answers that take longer anyway. I doubt that they would
prioritize people who leave location services on, but of course it's possible.
I wouldn't worry too much about leaving location services on
Actually I have a 2012 with the larger display and it has the retina
display, baught it last august or so and thinking of selling it. hardly
used.
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Ah, so location services is most likely used to tell the servers how to route
your picture and response. This is probably also the case with similar apps.
Server routing can make a difference of several seconds. Increase the distance
and number of routing points increases time delays. Knowing
Could you elaborate on this, David? Sounds interesting but I can't imagine a
plethora of algorithms would exist just to help route a picture over the
internet slightly more efficiently depending on where you are. It seems more
likely to me that location services are used for analytics, but I'm
Eileen and list,
I noticed that every answer takes a slightly different amount of time to
arrive, but I did not find any difference whether location services were on or
not. I noticed that the app continued to monitor my location even after taking
the picture, getting the answer and switching
Yes, routing to specific servers is entirely possible when location is known.
For instance, I am in New Zealand. Using a server in Australia is much better
than using a server in the US. If on the west coast of the US, there are lag
differences between the west coast and the east coast. I don't
Since crowd sourcing is being used, I wonder if location services is
being used to direct images to people in the same area or let people
know where the request is coming from. This might be useful when
different terms are used for the same object in different countries or
regions. Just guessing.
Hi.
I would like to know if is a way to activate or deactivate this thing
for some apps, not for all, just for some. It is possible?
thanks
Pablo
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Hi,
Lift up the top end of the phone, the end with the Power button. The
orientation will
I completely agree that this is possible, I'm just wondering whether an app
like this, aimed at a relatively small audience and dealing with fairly small
chunks of data, likely receiving crowd sourced answers from many different
places, would go to the trouble of setting up location-based
Sorry, I meant monitor router logs to see which addresses the app is using, not
monitoring traffic data itself.
Grant
On 2013-01-27, at 5:16 PM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree that this is possible, I'm just wondering whether an app
like this, aimed at a
Hi all:
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David, I am toggling VoiceOver with the triple-tap home button gesture.
Craig
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How are you toggling VO?
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On 28/01/2013, at 3:40,
Hi Pablo,
On the level of iOS you can only have the Rotation Lock unlocked or in
Portrait Lock.
This is done by bringing up the app switcher, do a 3-finger swipe from left
to right and then find the Rotation Lock control at the bottom left of the
screen.
Double tap the button once and it will go
I downloaded this app several months ago. I have not checked it out
lately, but I couldn't get it to read even as much as you. I wrote to
the app developer -- twice -- but got no response. I would very much
like to get this app working with VoiceOver. Mark Bittmann is a
wonderful writer and
HI. If this app ever gets fixed, please let me know. It sounds like the kind
of app I would be interested in.
Maria, Joe and Karly
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On 28/01/2013, at 1:04 PM, Penny Reeder penny.ree...@gmail.com wrote:
I downloaded this app several months ago. I have not checked it out
Hello Nicky,
That is a good question. As far as I can tell from looking at my set of
Facebook Status that I am able to open the link. I just double tap on the
Status. On this page is another link which you can then double tap to open.
I have to use both the native app and this because. For odd
HI. I use four square and stuff anyway, so location services doesn't really
bother me all that much. I'm so much out there on the Internet, that if anyone
wanted me bad enough they would probably be able to find me.
Maria
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On 28/01/2013, at 11:04 AM, Eileen Misrahi
Hello,
Some of the people on here have some great advice.
Must concur that lighting, glare, the level of your shot, the height, and
such are at great important.
Some things to note are that if you get garble messages. It typically means
you are too high when you take your picture.
Remember if
As far as I am aware, you should not be experiencing such. If You were muting
VO with a three finger double tap, it might make more sense. However, as you
are completely removing VO from the system, the apps' voice guidance features
should not be effected, unless voice guidance is using the
Also, if the text is skewed from square on, if the phone is tilted in any
direction, and if the phone is being jiggled, even just a little bit while the
picture is being taken, you will get less to un recognisable text.
What takes lots of practice is learning how to consistently take a perfect
Thanks everyone for answering this one. I was forgetting about that three
finger swipe right.
Rebecca and Zeb
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote:
Press the home button twice, and you should reach the app
HI. I agree with you about the size of the mini. I too enjoy email more.
I've found if I use the roter to go to containers, I can flick up to get to
the reply, delete buttons etc and flick down a couple of times to get to the
Message. When I used to check email using a blue tooth keyboard
Hi,
TextDetective is great, I can even read error messages on the computer screen
when JAWS stops talking.
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On 28/01/2013, at 1:55 PM, Anonymouse anonymo...@themickeyhouse.com wrote:
Hello,
Some of the people on here have some great advice.
Must concur that
David, you mention Apple's built-in speech. Would this have been a
feature of older iPhones? I neglected to say that my testing is
occurring on an iPhone 3GS using iOS 5.1.
Craig
On 1/27/13, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I am aware, you should not be experiencing
Yes, it's the same on all iOS devices.
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On 28/01/2013, at 16:57, Craig Werner coffeeb...@gmail.com wrote:
David, you mention Apple's built-in speech. Would this have been a
feature of older
David, I'll check with VoiceOver toggled off before the app is launched.
Craig
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Yes, it's the same on all iOS devices.
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On
Greetings from BrailleTouch!
I am very excited to announce that BrailleTouch will be available on the
App Store on Thu Jan 31 worldwide. We offer a free trial version, which
lets you type in braille on your touchscreen and hear the letters or
words spoken as you type them. If you like
Hi all, I have some apps for Spanish that use audible recordings. If voiceover
is on, it lowers the volume of the Spanish app and I have to keep voiceover off
for it to work correctly. I don't know if this is what you're talking about but
I thought I would put it in for what it's worth. I know
Lois, Thank you for the suggestions. There is no information in my phone about
the Q2. This is why I needed to repair it. I don't know how, but it seemed to
have been removed perhaps in my sleep? Anyway, I did not know hos to reset, so
I'm gonna try that right after hitting send.
Thanks again.
Sent from my iPhone
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Hi,
TextDetective is great, I can even read error messages on the computer screen
when JAWS stops talking.
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hello list,
I will be going to apple to replace my Iphone 4s (currently this one is not
the original but a replacement) as i am having serious issues with it
freezing / locking up at the lock screen and apps are crashing, i use
voiceover and most users that have read my posts here know what i
Hi David and Grant,
If I am processing all that both have written, the privacy issue should really
not be an issue. As I use the app more, I will see it having location services
turned off continues to slow the responses that I will turn this feature back
on. Mary had a good point that it
Hi Marissa,
I was wondering if you made a mistake and accidently sent this log to the
list instead of to Apple. Anyhow, since you did sent it to the list I assume
you can just send it to Apple Accessibility the same way, since it's now on
the list you could just forward that email and write an
Absolutely. I would not worry much if at all about the privacy
implications. Really, where there is no tangible benefit to having
location services on, I turn them off mainly to save a bit of battery
life and because essentially location services were designed to
provide some sort of benefit to
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