Re: closing applications

2012-04-28 Thread Tom Lange
Hi, Yeah, that seems to work. Thanks for the tip. Tom - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:24 PM Subject: Re: closing applications Hi Chuck, I really like that one, will try it out. Thank you.

Re: Square Card Reader

2012-04-28 Thread Sieghard
Hi Jenine, Unfortunately you will most likely discover that your bluetooth headset will not work if you plug something into the headphone jack. I didn't want to give you wrong information, so I just turned on Bluetooth and then I turned on my Bluetooth headset. It took over as usual and both

Re: A Question for My Way Classic Users

2012-04-28 Thread Anne Günther
Hallo Molly There's myway lite which is for free. And Myway classic, which isn't. With the latter you can load osm files, so you can build kind of a database for points of interest with them. Guenni -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To

RE: Square Card Reader

2012-04-28 Thread JANE SHEEHAN
Someone told me af few days ago that there's a card reader that connects to the charging port of the Iphone. That would eliminate the loss of speech, right? Jane Sheehan, Treasurer/Office Manager Guide Dog Users, Inc. 14311 Astrodome Drive Silver Spring, MD 20906-2245 301-598-2131 or

Re: Resetting Phone for Siri, often lately and sorry can not take any requests now?

2012-04-28 Thread Steve Robertson
Hi all. I just wanted to thank all of you for the excellent posts on this list, and all the great app suggestions. Amidst all the speculation about the I Phone 5, I decided to go ahead and get the I phone 4 s anyway, and am really pleased with it, it seems snappier and faster, and I do really

Re: Square Card Reader

2012-04-28 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, I use the Square service to take payments for my business, however if the card reader is used, I have to have sighted assistance to process the card because Voice Over audio is not possible. It connects to the headphone jack and doesn't have a bypass. This means that audio will not work.

Re: Resetting Phone for Siri, often lately and sorry can not take any requests now?

2012-04-28 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
This is very odd. I'm on ATT in Fort Wayne Indiana and have never had any troubles with needing to reset my phone because of Siri. I've read about others doing this, but I don't understand why resetting would be necessary when Siri is server based in the cloud and if it's not available, it's

Re: closing applications

2012-04-28 Thread Traci
Just to add to this… Once you guys use to this method, you might find the continuous noise while removing apps gets annoying. Lol, I flip my mute switch on while removing. Especially, if we are talking about several apps at once. Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:01 PM,

Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread Jennie Facer
Does anyone know of a good app to keep track of birthdays? Thank you so much! Jenn To the world you are someone but to someone you are the world! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit

Re: Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread Ryan Mann
Why not just use the Calendar app and put people's birthdays in as events? Alternatively, if you are on Facebook, you would probably get reminders of your friend's birthdays. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jennie Facer pup...@me.com wrote: Does anyone know of a good app

Re: Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread Jennie Facer
I have a question though about the bug in the native calendar app. It kicks you out of the app when you tap on an all-day event, but does it save it? Jenn To the world you are someone but to someone you are the world! On Apr 28, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com wrote: Why not

Re: Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Jenny, You can tell the calendar when to remind you about birthdays; if you enter them in Contacts, you'll be reminded at the time you specified. I use the calendar to remind me a week ahead of time and then use an app called NeverMiss to remind me on the day. It takes the info from your

RE: Resetting Phone for Siri, often lately and sorry can not take any requests now?

2012-04-28 Thread Jesus Garcia
Morning I am in South Florida with A T T. I have come to the conclusion that Wifi works better with Series then does 3 G we will have to wait to see how well 4 G works when the next version of the iPhone is released. Series is still officially in beta so, I am sure the system is constantly being

RE: Square Card Reader

2012-04-28 Thread Jenine Stanley
Thanks raul. I was considering the manual option myself. Is a signature required and if so, how does that work out for you. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:51 AM To:

RE: Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread Richard Turner
NO. It just kicks you out and you lose whatever you had entered. And I had been misinformed earlier, the All-Day event bug is only for voiceOver users. A work around would be to set a start time of 12:00 AM and an end time of 11:55 PM. That is about as close as we can get to All-Day until Apple

Notes and cloud

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Caron
Hi listers, I've been experimenting more with iCloud in general and having some success. Recently I tried to use the Apple Notes app to quickly sink info to and from my iPhone and my computer. I've had almost complete success. I'm hoping someone can help with the last step. I set up

Game Center success and quesiton

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Caron
Hello Listers, I found Game Center a challenge in itself. I am now able to use Game Center to play roll it with friends. I'm wondering if others have found games that they can play agains sighted or blind friends over game Center. I'm not understanding the Game Center well enough to

RE: Problems with staples labels that affect iPhone scanning?

2012-04-28 Thread Rick Alfaro
Nancy, Looks like you might be onto something here. I just checked and the labels I'm having issues with are from Office Depot and the container says same as Avery 5160. Anyhow, you should receive my samples any day now. Rick From: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: Capital one app

2012-04-28 Thread Victor Hugo
Hi am a totally blind person, my brother showed me where on the screen the credit card icon is located, then I just needed to reference a physical land mark to help me every time I need to log in to my account. If you check, the icon is on the left side of the screen, and at the same level as

Copying Music from ITunes to MP3 Device (other than Apple) -- Windows and JAWS

2012-04-28 Thread Eric SS
I recently read a brief reference to being able to burn CDs from ITunes, as well as move music to IPods or other MP3 players. When I look at a play list, I only see the burn feature or copy the list, which is just the titles into a text file. Did I read wrong or hopefully I am missing something?

Re: Question about time warner cable apps

2012-04-28 Thread Brent Harding
Do they even have remote scheduling like Dish does? I know Charter is so behind the times on that. The only way a DVR would be any bit useful for me living by myself is if I could schedule what's recorded on it by myself. - Original Message - From: Hope Paulos To:

Re: Question about time warner cable apps

2012-04-28 Thread Hope Paulos
The description of the app says that you can schedule the DVR from the actual application. You can also watch shows from your iPhone. And also change the TV channel with the phone. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: Do they even have

Re: Capital one app

2012-04-28 Thread M. Taylor
Marvelous, Victor. I am so happy that works. Thank you again for the tip. Mark On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Victor Hugo wrote: Hi am a totally blind person, my brother showed me where on the screen the credit card icon is located, then I just needed to reference a physical land mark to

RE: Question about time warner cable apps

2012-04-28 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Hope, I am a very happy Time Warner customer. As I understand it as of 2 months ago, the iPHone app does not allow television viewing or DVR scheduling. I spoke to several techs at the company who informed me that such features only exist on the iPad version of the app. Have you

Am I Missing Something re Digit-eyes?

2012-04-28 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello All. I have yet to read the tutorials re Digit-eyes but have read messages about it on this list and when opening the App, it seemed easy to use as explained in the tips. My problem is this. I took out a box from the freezer and thought I'd try the App. So pointing my I phone 4S

Re: Square Card Reader

2012-04-28 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, ah yes the signature. If the transaction is 25.00 or less, no signature is required. If it's more, then it is. However if you are taking a payment over the phone or making a manual transaction where the person isn't there for whatever reason, then you have to write down phone order or

Re: messages not being moved to trash using mail app?

2012-04-28 Thread adam morris
Hi Mark, www.bluehost.com On 29/04/2012 05:09, M. Taylor wrote: Hello Adam, What is the name of the hosting service? Mark On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:34 AM, adam morris wrote: Hi all, I have just set up an account for email. Messages come in fine, but when i select messages and delete them i

Re: Am I Missing Something re Digit-eyes?

2012-04-28 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thank you Rick. I best read the tutorials first and then try. Kawal. On 28 Apr 2012, at 10:09 PM, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kowel. When the barcode is found, your phone will vibrate, and VO will let you know what's going on. If it's a bar code it will say looking up bar

Re: Keeping track of birthdays

2012-04-28 Thread David Chittenden
Hello, I : put the birthday in to the person's contact entry in my contacts. From there, It is automatically added to my calendar as an all-day birthday event. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 29/04/2012, at 3:41, Jennie

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Re: Google Drive for iOS

2012-04-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, They are slowly rolling it out for google accounts. Yours probably has not been enabled yet. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Alex Stone alexstone...@btinternet.com wrote: This is all very well, but I

Re: Google Drive for iOS

2012-04-28 Thread Kliphton
I see googles attempt to jump on the storage band wagon, I signed up just to check out the accessibility. But personally, I like sky drive, it gives me 25 GB of free space, and works just like googl drive, and drop box, and already has a IOS app. So I can share, edit, and modify all my

RE: Google Drive for iOS

2012-04-28 Thread Joe
Hey, when you send links to documents or e-mail, does it force you to use your Hotmail address to do so? I really like the idea of Skydrive, but I don't know how restrictive it is about using your Hotmail ID. Thanks for any information.--Joe -Original Message- From:

Re: Question about time warner cable apps

2012-04-28 Thread Lois Butterfield
I have brighthouse cable, which is part of time-warner. I have a TV watching app on my ipad. It doesn't work on the iPhone. Lois -Original Message- From: Hope Paulos Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 3:49 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Question about time warner cable

Re: Copying Music from ITunes to MP3 Device (other than Apple) -- Windows and JAWS

2012-04-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, are you sure? I just asked because this was not always the case. You had to show file in windows explorere or, show file in finder if using a Mac, copy from there, then paste to the other destination. Its been a long time since I've tried this and even longer since trying it on windows.

Re: Google Drive for iOS

2012-04-28 Thread paras shah
with sky drive, can you edit documents on your i devices if so how On 4/28/12, Kliphton kliph...@gmail.com wrote: You only need your hotmail address to sign in, nothing else. On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Joe jsoro...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, when you send links to documents or e-mail, does it

Re: Using a braille display with iBooks

2012-04-28 Thread Richard Turner
As of IOS 5.1 the Humanware Brailliant BI displays work fine with Apple devices. There are work arounds for the conflicting keystrokes, which I don't recall at the moment. Apple fixed the Humanware issues and broke all HIMS products and I believe Braille Connect displays with 5.1. Now we are

reading by character e

2012-04-28 Thread Molly Marcinick
hi all i have. my rotar set to. character. icant seem to read a word by character. any ideas? thanks molly Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit

Re: Lost the ability to kill apps in the app switcher

2012-04-28 Thread Molly Marcinick
i haven't upgraded and i can't use it either Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Tom Lange lang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You're probably right. I hadn't seen this behavior before the latest IOS upgrade. Tom - Original Message - From: David Chittenden

Re: Lost the ability to kill apps in the app switcher

2012-04-28 Thread Molly Marcinick
this is the same thing happening to me and i have not upgraded molly Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:42 AM, Julian mrc1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All Today a friend updated her Verizon iPhone 4 from IOS 4.26 to 5.01 successfully. All was great until she tried to kill the Skype

audio thesaurous

2012-04-28 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi all, Weird question perhaps, but is there any-such app for voice-activated thesaurous? I would like to be able to easily open an app, say a word (siri/vocal-like) and have VO or a Voice-tt engine give me the various antonyms or sinonyms available. Anything like this out there? Thanks.

retaining podcasts

2012-04-28 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, I have some downloads that don't expire and I want to keep. I downloaded them to my downloads folder on my Mac and put them into ITunes. They transferred fine to itunes and thus onto my iphone. However, I just synced with itunes, and despite asking it to sync my podcast files it took them

Re: reading by character e

2012-04-28 Thread Molly Marcinick
hi jeremy it starts reading the url at the bottom of the email. thee whole address not letter by letter. and it bypasses the body of the email Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:01 PM, jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: Yo Molly. Wen you flick up or down, what is it navigating by? Can't

RE: pop3 instead of imap

2012-04-28 Thread Cristobal
When selectig the type of email address you wish to configure, choose the Other option and fill out the necessary fields. That and make sure that pop is enabled from within your email's settings. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On

Re: reading by character e

2012-04-28 Thread jeremy
Howdy Molly. Unfortunately, I can't get this to happen here on my phone, reading the email you just sent. Not sure if this will help or not, but what happens if you try to use other options in the router to navigate through the text? Does word navigating for example, allow you to go back and