Re: Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Marie
Well every other session I have used the same equipment with pretty much the same speed and heart rate and it has registered all except the one today. So those qualifications are not the issue. This was actually one of my best and I had the movement level above other days also and even closed

RE: Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi No it’s due to you not having your movement and HR up to the levels they require to kick the exercise activity to move. I found that to get it moving up I had to be walking at a pace around the 13 to 14 minutes per Km and with an HR of over 100 bpm. They must have som equation that works

Re: Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread Ann Byrne
thanks, Richard. I *love the website. Ann At 07:28 PM 7/7/2020, you wrote: If the person is a VoiceOver user, Voice Control will probably not make them hate technology any less. There are an awful lot of commands to learn, even if they are not a VoiceOver user, but it also requires a fair

Re: Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Marie
Yes I always click on the type of workout and I got the usual alerts during the time I was exercising. when I go to the activity app on the phone, it shows the calories burned, so I am stumped right now. In addition, I switched to another watch face and it also shows zero for exercise. Also the

RE: Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread kitty hevener
Oops, sorry about my giving info re the wrong thing. From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voice command I assumed Ann was talking about Voice Control, the new feature in iOS 13 that

Re: Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
I assumed Ann was talking about Voice Control, the new feature in iOS 13 that allows pretty complete control of any iDevice with Voice Commands. That is quite different from dictation and Siri. Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we

Re: Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
If the person is a VoiceOver user, Voice Control will probably not make them hate technology any less. There are an awful lot of commands to learn, even if they are not a VoiceOver user, but it also requires a fair amount of patience. When iOS 13 was in beta, I went through and created a list of

RE: Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread kitty hevener
Hi Ann, Nost of my interaction with my Iphone is via voice commands. It works quite well, most of the time. Even when I want to search, I will hit the dictate button and speak what I am looking for. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Ann Byrne Sent:

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread bentleyj1952
I don't want to tie up this list with repetitive thank you's but it was extremely helpful for me to be able to send text messages to family and friends who use Android phones. Getting that message failure notice was getting old. I won't post any more on this particular subject unless some one

Re: Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Ann Byrne
A couple of things to remember. If you are walking, your arm has to be moving. On the treadmill, for example, with your hands on the rests, the watch doesn't know you're walking. With a shopping cart, the same. When I tread I keep my phone in my pocket so I can have my hands on the grips.

Re: Home quest

2020-07-07 Thread Yolanda Thompson
There are tabs along the bottom of the screen you have to add workers to build your town to farm for food and then you can look at your treasury to see how full your resources are for example word stones how many population you have you can go to the town to build houses and some more houses

Voice command

2020-07-07 Thread Ann Byrne
How reliable is commanding the iPhone by voice? What are the pitfalls for someone who hates technology? -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is

Re: Otterbox case for ipad question

2020-07-07 Thread Isaac Hebert
Some of the differences of the otter box symmetry case include: otter box drop protection, removable side panel that can allow one to attach a cover if you want, and a limited life time warranty. Here is a link to info about the case.

Re: Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Malcolm Parfitt
Hello, Did you select your workout type on the watch itself and start it at the beginning of your workout? For example: I do one hour’s work on my exercise cycle. So before I start I launch the Workout App on my watch and select Indore Cycle as my workout type. I have set it to Open Goal.

Watch complications

2020-07-07 Thread Marie
Can anyone explain the info displayed on the activity complication? I just finished a 31 minute workout but the complication shows exercising at zero? Is this possibly because I closed that ring for today? Please help.Thanks, Marie -- The following information is important for all members of

RE: Facebook Live

2020-07-07 Thread Vivian Conger
Thanks so much for this. Vivian and Sallie From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Isaac Hebert Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:00 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Facebook Live To turn on notification so you know when a facebook page gos live, go to the facebook

Home quest

2020-07-07 Thread regina alvarado
Hi, On the Applevis newsletter there was a game called Home Quest. I know from looking in different places that people are playing it successfully. So, I must be the dumbest player ever to try this game! Can anyone get me started on the game please? I understand what I am supposed to do just

Re: Getting IOS VoiceOver to read colors of text?

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
Not that I have ever heard of. Maybe a call to Apple Accessibility? Maybe a feature request through www.apple.com/feedback Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
Richard or Sieghard or someone on this list told me about it a whie back. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of bentleyj1...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:55 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Getting CIRI

Getting IOS VoiceOver to read colors of text?

2020-07-07 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. Is there any way to get VoiceOver on IOS to tell me the color of text on the screen? I am going through the 100 Days of SwiftUI tutorial and some of the tutorial is using code to change colors of text. I’ve been running the apps on my iPhone and hoping that I’m doing the code right,

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
My Mom and one of my sisters has an android phone and I have never had any trouble sending them text messages. I'm with Verizon, and it is unlimited text messages which is nice. On 7/7/20, Esther wrote: > gotcha! Thanks all of you. Esther > > Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! >

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread bentleyj1952
Hi, I do now. And, its working fine for when I want to send my friend with an Android phone a text. I'm glad to get this problem straightened out. James B -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Carolyn Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:45 AM To:

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Esther
gotcha! Thanks all of you. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! > On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > If you double-tap SMS, it will turn on; it is a toggle. It won't prevent > your i-messages, only, as Richard says, will enable you

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Esther
oh, I didn't know that SMS had more diversity. Thank you for the correction! Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! > On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > What do yhou mean, regular messages, Esther? SMS simply enables texts more >

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Esther
hi, I don't have problems with Siri at all. It's just the SMS problem. Siri is great! Thank you. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! > On Jul 7, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > I have struggled with this problem and had some luck with

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread bentleyj1952
Enabling send as sms fixed the problem. I wonder why Apple doesn’t have this turned on by default. I’m sure glad it is now working right. Many thanks for the directions. James B From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Isaac Hebert Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 7:07 AM

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Marie
I tried to download the Open Audible program and either Defender or the Edge browser, stopped it saying it was potentially harmful to my system? I aborted the download. These days, it is too easy to get crap so it is not worth the risk to me. JMO Marie -Original Message- From:

Re: Facebook Live

2020-07-07 Thread Isaac Hebert
To turn on notification so you know when a facebook page gos live, go to the facebook page that you are following. Next choose go to more. Next choose following. After choosing more, make sure that the get notifications setting is turned on. If you need to change notifications settings

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
James, yhou do have SMS turned on, don't you? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of bentleyj1...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:00 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Getting CIRI to understand the difference

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
Mine with AT is unlimited. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:23 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
If you double-tap SMS, it will turn on; it is a toggle. It won't prevent your i-messages, only, as Richard says, will enable you to text to other phones. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
What do yhou mean, regular messages, Esther? SMS simply enables texts more diversity, as I understand it. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject:

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Carolyn
I have struggled with this problem and had some luck with saying Siri, Send text message to 919-xxx, and mostly it gets there to my friend with an Android. I have another friend who had an iPhone, never could work with the thing, got some trade off the thing and bought a Kyocera Dura. So

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Dave
windows gives that warning, regarding many programs. Dave -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 3:15 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: audible books on mp3 players OK, I decided to look into Open audible. Well, my computer blocked the

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Don Moore
I haven't had an issue with it either. I'm glad to know that it's not available anymore. I'll have to make sure that I keep a copy elsewhere in case my computer craps out for some reason. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
OK, I decided to look into Open audible. Well, my computer blocked the download because it says it can harm my computer. Since I am not a technician of any kind, I take that to mean that Microsoft thinks it contains issues if not viruses. Not sure exactly where to go from here. Richard "He

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
Which has stopped being developed unless you know something no one else seems to know. I'm glad it has worked for people, but no one has bothered to give a source. That alone makes me wonder. Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Dave
Hi Joshua. as far as i know. It is still available, on the net but It can be hard to find. There is also a program, called, open audible, which does much the same thing. Dave. -Original Message- From: Joshua Hendrickson Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 1:52 PM To:

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Dave
Hi Richard. Not quite sure what you mean, by several pieces? It is just one program. Dave. -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 1:42 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: audible books on mp3 players Everything I've read says it is not just one

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Dave
Hi Richard. With total respect, what you have heard is nonsense. I know many people, who convert there books to mp3, using the inaudible program. and they have done so, for many years, without any issues. A lot of people, have expensive, dedicated book players, like the victor stream, and

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
Thanks for the article on best audible converters. However, don't buy the Epubor program. I just spent $31 and it isn't very screenreader accessible and it doesn't work all that well like it claims. I tried converting an audible book and it didn't even convert the entire book. Only a portion of

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
Yes, iMessages are unique to Apple, and so logically, SMS is regular text messages as it has been around since texting began. That is a good example of how influential Apple has become. Personally, since not everyone owns Apple products, I’d never turn off SMS, but there are situations where

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread chaltain
I know this doesn’t help, but I just found it interesting that someone thinks of iMsgs as regular text messages, as opposed to SMS which are ubiquitous and have been around longer then Apple’s proprietary messaging service. -- Christopher (AKA CJ) Chaltain at Gmail From:

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Esther
hi, Richard, the weird thing is, I did go into settings and SMS messaging is turned off so I don't know what the deal is here. Maybe it'll disappear after 30 days. I'm hoping that's the case. Thank you for your help. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! > On Jul 7, 2020, at

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
That must be because you got it before it got spread around through the various torrent sites that are known for hiding trojan viruses in their executable files. So, since it is no longer being developed, it should not be recommended. Too many novices will grab something and end up with a virus

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
It was actually taken off the internet a couple years ago. It is one single program as I still have the EXE file for the latest version that was released. I don't think it is being developed any more. I have also been using the program for years as well with no viruses on my system because of

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
Everything I've read says it is not just one program, but you have to put together several pieces. Could you say more and give a resource? Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient

RE: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
If you do not want to send as SMS, i.e. never send a text to an Android user, go to settings, messages, and turn off send as SMS. So, you will only be able to send iMessages between Apple device users. If you ever want to send pictures or audio files, you need to still turn on send as MMS.

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Esther
hi, everyone, is there a way to disable SMS messages on an iPhone? I just want to send regular messages. Any help would be appreciated. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! > On Jul 7, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Isaac Hebert wrote: > > Have you tried enabling send as sms?

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread lenron brown
I have been using that one for years, and it works just fine. On 7/7/20, Richard Turner wrote: > Since this is a hot topic right now, I did some investigating about > converting audible books to other formats. > Someone had mentioned something called Inaudible. I would recommend against > that

RE: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
Since this is a hot topic right now, I did some investigating about converting audible books to other formats. Someone had mentioned something called Inaudible. I would recommend against that because it is not a program as such and is apparently prone to be a mechanism for infecting machines

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
You'd be kind of out of luck unless you could convert your audible books to mp3 so they would then play on the first gen stream. On 7/7/20, Andrew J. LaPointe wrote: > Richard, how does that work if you have the victor stream 1st generation > that won’t take the enhanced. Andy and Shubert > > >

Re: Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread Isaac Hebert
Have you tried enabling send as sms? Enabling send as sms will allow messages to be sent when imesssage is unavailable. To enable this settings, messages. Next swipe until you find send as sms and then double tap to turn on this setting. HTH Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2020, at

Re: audible books on mp3 players

2020-07-07 Thread Dave
No big deal for me. as i have always used the enhanced format. Dave. -Original Message- From: lenron brown Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 3:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: audible books on mp3 players I don't get the big deal it's another format you download it works.

Getting CIRI to understand the difference between an Eye Message and a text message meant for an Android phone

2020-07-07 Thread bentleyj1952
Hi all, I have sent several messages to a friend who uses an Android phone by saying to Ciri, "send text to Jessica's mobil. Then, I get a message failure notification. When I look, I discover that Ciri sent an Eye Message instead of a text message. I've tried using the lady's first