You've got me intrigued, I have not seen this behavior either. Does this happen
in both landscape and portrait?
It sounds like some kind of notification have you got a Gmail app tthat
notifies you. Or have you got selected contacts in the notification centre?
Garth
On 16/10/2012, at 9:11
Hi. I tried searching through the archives first as I have a feeling this has
been discussed before but had no luck. I have the native FB plus focus, facely
HD and no matter which app I use, I don't seem to be able to activate links
that people include in their posts. If they simply post the
That sounds like push notification or mail; and I switch that off; I only
want mail hwen I want to... not be constently pestered by it. I think you
have to dig deep into the setting for the specific mailbox to find that.
But start in Settings/mail, blah and whatnot/find the mailbox/ and dig
Ok, as said before, Under settings/mail, contacts and something/; the phrase
you're looking for is Fetch new data, this is just above Contacts
settings. That is a menu including push; I set mine to manual!
Hth, RobH.
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Hi.
VOiceover does also come out of the digital optical output on the apple tv. I'm
using this all the time.
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Den 15/10/2012 kl. 16.16 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:
Hi Simon,
I
What is digital optical output and what does one use it for?
I'd like to say how useful this discussion about Apple tv is for me. I've not
got one yet but I'm learning a lot about it so when I do get it, I will be much
better informed. I have not got an hd tv yet so I can't get Apple tv because
it's a digital audio connection, generally used to connect the apple tv to
something like a home cinema receiver, or other 5.1, or 7.1 speaker systems.
it can also be used to connect it to something like a minidisk, dat, or cd
recorder.
a box has been mentioned here, that would let you use an
Hi all,
Status report was working fine, when I go in and double tap and hold on
the latest report, then swipe down, it says updating.
then it says updates complete, then exits me straight from the app.
When I go back in it hasn't updated at all, repeating the process ends
with the same
hi all. I notice since downloading ios 6 that the battery life on my
phone doesn't last or stay charged like it did before. Has anyone else
had this issue and if so how did you fix it? I charge it every night so
it's ready to go in the morning for the day. I don't use my phone
during the
Yes, sorry I didn't mention that. I am in the U.S.
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Melanie, are you in the US?
On 10/14/12, Melanie Clouser mclouser1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm
Oops, sorry, I'm not the Melanie you were talking too. Apologies.
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Yes, sorry I didn't mention that. I am in the U.S.
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I have not been able to get anything since last Friday.
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What is your battery level after the day is over?
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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: battery life and i phone 4s using ios 6.0
hi
Voice Camera Pro
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Description
? Version 3.0 brings you New Commands, New Features, New Design and Faster
Performance! Fully optimized for all iPhones, iPads and iPods ?
• With Voice Camera Pro you can
it looks like landscape. the ipad itself appears to be working fine. but given
what has been shared, i am wondering if there is a hardware problem. i observed
this in both ios 5 and now 6.
On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote:
You've got me intrigued, I have not
ok, i will take a look at that.
On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Rob Harris bobs...@googlemail.com wrote:
That sounds like push notification or mail; and I switch that off; I only
want mail hwen I want to... not be constently pestered by it. I think you
have to dig deep into the setting for
I've had the exact opposite experience. The battery life is much improved
on the 4S.
I use it for checking Email on my breaks but I lock the screen when I'm not
using it.
When you say it is on but on vibrate, is it locked, or just on?
Do you use push notifications?
It sounds like something is
I don't understand your comment, but best to be on the safe side. You
don't know if it works, but it sounds like you are saying it won't.
Fred Olver
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:29
I presume you have to point the camera to take pictures? I have never been
able to take pictures as I have no vision.
Kawal.
On Oct 16, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Fred Olver goodfo...@charter.net wrote:
Voice Camera Pro
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Open iTunes to buy and
Ahem, that's not what i was trying to say. Let's see if i can be more clear
here. I was wondering if there were any clashes between the voice recognition
and VO. I don't think that the voice input thing will clash with VO, but if
anyone knew it would be great I'll have to see if this app is in
Pointing is a fairly intuative thing, i'm sure life-long totals can point
reasonable accurately if they try. Pointing with a device is slightly more
challenging, and the feedback loop is long, so not learned easily, but not
impossible by any stretch of the imagination. any level of sight
Hi list,
I just found out something interesting that I didn't know before.
If your registered blind in the UK you can by apple products v a t free,
so that means you get about 20 percent off.
In the case of the iPhone 5 64 gb model this would save you about £140,
I assume this applies to all
Alex,
Where did you hear this and what section of VAT law are they referring to, as
unless something has changed in the past 24 hours, this is 100% incorrect.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather
TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as
Then taking pictures should be easy. Just point and shoot. Then you photo
stream them and over Thanksgiving dinner you and the fam watch them. They take
the best and put them into a digital picture frame and now you're the talk of
the town.
On Oct 16, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu
Dear Alex and All,
I have, as this is very important, firstly checked with our internal finance
team, and then with HMRC directly.
You cannot, repeat cannot, get nil rated VAT relief on items purchased within
the UK which are, so to speak, off the shelf none adaptive technologies.
The simple
haven't had any issues, been using Navigon on my old 4S and later my 5, nothing
to report.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
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TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS,
Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist.
I'm sure this has been covered before, but I can't remember the answer. Is
it possible to make ibooks continue reading with Voiceover when the screen
is locked?
Cheers
Alex
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Hi Andrew,
If you have an LCD flatscreen TV you do actually have HD and it should have
HDMI inputs unless you mix up the terminology/technology here. Is your TV
still a big box that is a foot or more from front to back or is it a flat,
relatively thin unit? When I bought my Sony LCD TV about 5
Hi Neel and list,
well I can see you have done thorough research, but my question is why
have three separate apple stores told different people that they can by
apple products vat free?
I would suggest the fact apple includes VoiceOver means they have
adapted the product to be useful to the
Good morning, I checked the archives before asking this question, but I am
still not clear on how to add music to my iPhone. Will someone write to me off
list, or contact me either through Skype or Messenger for some help?
Thanks for your help.
Beverly
I am using PC Backup to back up my
Ah, thanks for this. My tv is rather thin although not as thin as the up-to-day
newest models. So you may be right. I shall check the documentation. That may
be good news for me.
Many thanks again for writing.
Andrew
On 16 Oct 2012, at 15:43, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote:
Hi
Hi Beverley,
You can copy music manually or sync. To sync, connect your phone and find it in
the iTunes source list. Tab through the radio buttons and choose Music. Then
tab until you reach the Music section of the dialog box. If you want to sync,
check Sync Music. Then you'll probably want
I want to run my Focus 40 Blue with my 3-GS which is running IOS 6. If
my understanding is correct, I should find braille somewhere under
settings. So I went to settings, general, and accessibility, but found
no braille. So, where is braille?
Incidentally, this is not the current
The 20 cell display that I am using is the pac mate 20 from Freedom
Scientific. It is portable, but doesn't use Bluetooth so it is only usable
on the pac mate notetaker or it has to be plugged into a laptop with
Bluetooth 2.0 and above. My 40 cell unit is a focus 40 blue and it does have
IPhone
Hi The subject line says it all.
Anyone know how to do this from an I devise? Can't seem to get it to work.
Thanks.
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Hi Don,
Braille is in Settings/Accessibility/VoiceOver. Turn on the display and then
the iPHone when you want to use braille, and when you're done, turn off the
iPHone first, then the display.
I don't remember all the steps for pairing, but I believe you turn on the
display and then open
Do a three finger swipe to the left or the right to change pages. Hope this
helps.
Reese
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Hi list:
OK I updated to IOS 6.0 and whenever I open my gmail I can't get the message
to read after its open. So how do you read the entire message after opening
it? Thanks!
Reese
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I know someone who bought iPhone 4s in London and didn't have to pay VAT on
it.
Don't really know about legalities but this information about a blind person
being exempted from vat on iPhone is accurate.
Thanks
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Hi, here you go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK
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On 10/16/2012 3:48
Hello listers,
I know someone who obtained their iPhone at discount, but who knows how the
discount was worked? I guess it depends whom the store assistant is. The
upshot is, that despite the fact that temptation might come our way, we
should not fall for it; who knows who might find out.
Hi, the lack of vision can make taking pictures a bit challenging, but
it's not impossible. I've taught several of my clients how to take
pictures with their iPhones and some learned it, some didn't, but all
got a better understanding of how the process works.
So, if this is something you are
But I'm guessing this app won't help with things like taking pictures of
checks for banking apps since the banking app and the talking camera app
cannot be open at the same time?
Paul
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From: Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:52 PM
To:
Hi, for the record, all discussions of iOS are welcome here. So, iPhone,
iPod Touch, and iPad discussions are definitely welcome.
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Raul, I can also confirm this. My ex-father-in-law was a photographer, and
he taught me to take pictures which independent observers said were
reasonable.
Cheers
Alex
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Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: 16
Tara,
What store, specifically please, as I will get in touch...
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
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Robert:
That's interesting. I've used the app each evening of the playoff's.
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From: Robert Doc Wright
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 07:39
Subject: Re: mlb at bat
I have not been able to get anything since last Friday.
I tried to install Instapaper, not sure I managed it, instructions were sort
of confusing to me and although I bought and installed it, not sure exactly
how to use it, I was told it would enable me to mark articles I did not have
time to read for later consumption.
So far as I can see no help
Dear Sieghard,
I've just found out that my tv is indeed capable of taking an HDMI connection.
Wonderful.
I just need to find out what else I can do with Apple tv, for instance, whether
I can stream foreign tv channels available on the internet via my Apple tv.
Thanks again. You have saved me
Sieghard.
Thanks for this info, it sound really good, and I am looking something like
this, because my air condition is not accessible at all, and I get crazy when I
try to increase or decrease the temperature.
Now, do you have to pay a monthly payment to radiothermostate? or just you
payed the
Wow!... I'll be on the phone to them soon!
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:26 PM
Subject: You can by apple products in the UK VAT free if your blind.
Hi list,
I just found out something
Although I can use the app, it still goes away when the phone goes in to
screen-lock mode. When I go to home, as well. If I shut voice-over off it stays
longer but still goes away after about 20 minutes. A possible work-around is
to listen to the play-off's on ESPN radio through that app.
This weeks episode takes a look at customising Voice Over on an iPad. I needed
to do this because of the bug in iOS6 which can cause the loss of all Voice
Over settings after performing a hard reboot. I had done this a number of times
since updating to iOS 6 with no issues however when my iPad
Yes, for some reason or another. That part of the app issue hasn't been
addressed. What I do is as someone suggested on this list a couple weeks back.
I double click the home button to bring up the app switcher, I then single tap
the home button to go home. This will leave the audio in tact
A bit further. If the app is not working for you at all. I'd suggest
uninstalling the app reinstalling it, make sure you click on restore
purchases when you do reinstall it so as not to have to pay for it again. Give
this a shot give us a full report on whether or not you can once again hear
I've never heard of that anyway. As far as I'm concerned the price of an app
is the price of an app which everyone pays, blind or otherwise.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Alex Wallis
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:04 PM
Oh true. I forgot about that rule. Apple products and most of the Apple apps
are not specifically for the blind, so ...
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Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:38 PM
To:
Restore purchases? Tell me where that button is, I bought downcast afew months
ago, un-installed it and can't seem to get it back unless I pay for it again?\
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Fred Olver
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:13 PM
Hellow,
Once in accessibility, go into voiceover and braille is in there. I can't
remember if it's in the same place on the earlier ios versions, but I've
just found it in there on IOS 6.
Hope that helps,
Harmony.
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Yesterday it was 20 percent. Today was better as I discovered yesterday
that there were a lot of apps in the app switcher so just to experiment
I closed them this morning and the battery turned out to be fine today.
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I think the only true 20 cell display that works with the iDevices is the
Braillino from Handitech.
I'm not sure I'd recommend it, b but the good thing is that it uses
off-the-shelf double a batteries and has some basic functions built-in.
I'm very curious to see the new Perkins Mini which is
Do you have Email set to use push?
That will drain the battery faster than most things as it is constantly
checking for new Email.
Richard
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Of Rebecca Ilniski
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Well it sounds like you may have had some success in closing out
something that was in the app switcher that may have been running in
some way that it shouldn't have been. Some apps seem to at times
misbehave like that. I guess the other thing to say is that a battery
drain is not a universal
Garth, I think you're right. I kept whittling down the size of the files until
it worked. Finally, at about 15MB, the files could be imported into Downcast. I
don't know if there's a size limit somewhere greater than 15MB, or if there was
something peculiar about these files.
(See new viPhone
Hi. I also use Navigon. I have an 8 GB iPhone 4 with iOS6 and have
found no issues with Navigon.
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Hi,
I uploaded 9 files of about 15MB each to DropBox from my PC. All are there, as
shown in DropBox when viewed from my PC. But, when I go to DropBox on my
iPodTouch, only 2 of the 9 files show up, file 1 and file 8. This persists 24
hours after upload to DropBox, and following a Power Off/On
Hi Group, Between work and study, I literally have hundreds of websites in my
favourites on a laptop and work pc as well as my iphone and ipad. I desperately
need to find an accessible app/application that will enable me to link all of
these together to one list so i can easily get to the right
And you lock the phone between uses?
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Rebecca Ilniski
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:25 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: battery life and i phone 4s using ios 6.0
Yesterday it
Hi,
Instapaper is where you go to read the articles you have previously saved to
instapaper via safari or twitter etc.
Cheers,
Brett.
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Of Rose Combs
Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2012 6:16 AM
Hi Keith
Out of interest, try totally clearing out your app switcher and restarting the
phone prior to doing the export/import. It shouldn't really make a difference
to the size of the file you can import to downcast but might be worth a try.
Garth
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Hi All:
I have occasionally had a problem with accessing updates in the app store.
There would be a notification that there were updates available and, when
going into the app., it would say everything was up to date.
What I have found is that if you remove the app store from the app switcher,
Hi Andrew,
OK, I can give you a Paypal email address if you want to send me that money
I saved you *smile*
As for foreign TV channels, no such luck. There are really no actual TV
channels available, just services like Netflix, YouTube, internet radio
stations etc. There are some sports related
Pablo,
There is no monthly cost or any subscription cost.
I don't know anything about the Honeywell and as to how accessible it is,
but there really isn't much reason to look at it since a few of us on the
list use the Radio Thermostat product, it works well, it's affordable and is
accessible
I'm also intrigued by the Perkins mini. Having seen the description, I'm
thinking I might really like the layout with the space bar further from the
keys, kind of like what you have on qwerty keyboard with the space bar below
the typing keys. And the price is interesting as well.
Mary
Mary
Bill,
I have not experienced this at all and I am running the latest version of
the app. I suggest you delete the app and reinstall it, a few others had
problems with the app closing unexpectedly and reinstalling seems to have
fixed this.
Regards,
Sieghard
From:
Let me find out and I will get back to you.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: You can by apple products in the UK VAT free if your blind.
Tara,
What store,
Is there anyone here who has used both of these and if so, what
are your experiences? I'm especially interested in ease of use
but all other comments are welcome.
Thanks,
Kim
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Are you able to subscribe to a network feed such as nbc, ABC or CBS?
Beverly
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Hi everyone, one of the things I like about using Tweetlist, is that you can
add articles to Instapaper without actually opening the article first. I've
found an RSS Reader called Reeder that does this, but it's inaccessible.
Does anyone know of an RSS Reader that's accessible that, for example,
Hi there,
I have been given various advice by people On ways to read. Anyway, after
lots of experimenting I find that this works really well, They're in mind that
this is is a technique and you need to perfect it. When you first come to your
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