. as the OS is the same they are lot useful to learn IPhone
in a systematic way. yes 4 is faster compared to 3GS but IOS 5 works
fine grate on 3GS.
a real thanks to the work put up on these recordings.
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Hi
Thank-you so much for the positive words
Hi All
The next episode of iBlindTech is now available. This one is a look at using
the app switcher and locking and unlocking the rotation lock. I hope this is
helpful for some new users.
Garth
www.iblindtech.com/
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,
Darla
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Hi
Ariadne Has been updated and is even more awesome than ever. I can now share my
favorites with my ipad
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NO you won't need to subscribe on both devices. You can have all of this synced
between devices at a pretty granular level, Ie, you can sync, episodes,
podcasts, playlists and settings independently.
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Hi guys
The next episode of the iBlindTech Democast is now available. In this episode I
take a look at using the pinch gesture to select text. I then walk through how
to work with text by using the copy and paste options in the rotor.
Garth
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Hi All
In this episode I go through the basics of working with folders on iDevices.
Walking through creating, adding apps and also how to delete folders.
Garth
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Hi Reggie, as you've been a advised you can put 12 apps in a folder on an
iPhone and a small correction, it's 16 rather than 18 apps for the iPad. BTW
this is something that is covered in the podcast.
Garth
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Hey Mary, Sorry about that, No I don't believe that it is different between
different iPads, the issue is with my memory The Max is 20 apps per folder on
any of the iPads. On my old iPad 1, I now remember that the kids now have about
four games folders all with 20 apps in them. Since getting my
Hi Sandy
Unfortunately you can not add it to the rotor. The only option is the negative
for the whole screen, that is, you can not have it such that it doesn't effect
images. BTW this option isn't even available on the Mac, it's the negative or
nothing. Finally, I doubt that it would make any
?
Carol P
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: Downcast: starting a partially played podcast
I thought that Downcast did this automatically. If you
tap on the episode again at a later
You should be able to just search in most of the podcast catchers like downcast
and icatcher. Just search the name of the podcast rather than bothering with
the URL's.
Garth
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the iBlindTech
Podcast or two on using these apps with VO would help me immensely, and
perhaps some other iPad users. Again, your products are good. Keep up the
good work!
Pete
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On Jul 19, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote:
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Just a quick note to let you know
Hi Reggie
You do need to have your gmail set to exchange on the PC as well. Once you've
done this I would also go to your gmail account settings on the web interface
and turn off POP.
Garth
On 23/07/2012, at 4:34 AM, Regina Alvarado wrote:
Still very confused. On my computer I have a
I thought that Downcast did this automatically. If you tap on the episode again
at a later time, it should just pick the stream back up at the point you left
off. The playback position is not always retained correctly though. I sometime
find that it doesn't work properly, especially if the app
Hi
Just a quick note to let you know that Episode 10 of the iBlindTech Democast is
now available.
Garth
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On secure passwords, remember that given at least some complexity, the most
important thing is length.
For example, if you have a short mix of Caps, non caps, numbers and symbols and
then pad out the password with a heap of another character you can make an
extremely secure password that is
Hey Reggie
If exchange is setup proply u shouldn't have this issue
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On 18/07/2012, at 7:56, Regina Alvarado reggie.alvar...@gmail.com wrote:
Biggest problem I had with exchange was that again I could not delete off the
server so I would end up with the same messages in
It is possible to edit or add to an existing note. After selecting the note so
that you are on the screen which has the recording and add photo buttons on it
you can go down to the bottom of the screen to find the edit button. Once you
have tapped on this, you can tap n the note text and add to
No, you can't arrange apps with a Blue Tooth keyboard. There is no way of doing
the double tap and hold gesture on a keyboard.
Garth
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On 17/07/2012, at 8:14 PM, RDLAW wrote:
Is it possible to arrange apps using my bluetooth keyboard?
The screen curtain does now dim the back light when it is activated. In some of
the earlier IOS releases, when you put on the screen curtain, it did not adjust
the brightness of the back light, all it did was make the screen black. In very
simple terms, you can think of these screens as a
The best way to know where an app is, is to just feel around the screen, also
if you start flicking through your apps, you will notice that VO makes a
different sound when you swipe from one app to another on the same line as
compered with the last app on a row to the next row app.
You can't delete this folder nor put it into another folder. The best solution
is to just move it to the last screen on your device.
Garth
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On 16/07/2012, at 10:07 PM, RDLAW wrote:
Is there anyway to get rid of that newsstand folder?
I am not sure what the upper limit is but if there is one, than I think it is
about 10. Thee are no real issues with having multiple people using the same
iTunes account and iTunes installation. You can also all share the same apps
and independently manage which f these apps and which music is
Hope you enjoy and find it useful Jeff. If you have any specific questions, or
any thing you'd like me to cover in the podcast then let me know. Send an email
to iblindt...@gmail.com. I am trying to put together a body of work that will
be useful to new user of IOS devices so feedback is
Hi guys
I would just like to introduce a new podcast I have started putting out. It is
specifically designed for new users of Apples IOS devices. I have shared
various recordings previously. Some of these have been included in this
podcast. Some of the episodes have been available on my site
Hey Ricardo, you know I agree with most of what you have said but I don't
really think the availability of iPhones off contract in the US makes all that
much difference to the iPod touch. We An $800 device isn't going to steal sales
away from a$200 one. Also, pretty much everywhere else in the
Funny you should mention that about Ariadne. I find it works extremely well. It
is in fact the app I was referring to when I mentioned that some apps wold take
their direction from the GPS rather than the compass, at least when there is
sufficient movement to do so. I have a feeling that there
The apps will all be taken out of their folders.
Garth
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On 09/07/2012, at 8:24 PM, RDLAW wrote:
How does this affect folders?
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Hi Jessica
I don't believe that there is any way of doing this. The only way to get a
ringtone on yur phone without using iTunes on a computer is by buying it from
the store. Also if you jail break you can do what you want.
Garth
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Exactly, it is the compass that is used to determine direction. The compass
knows which way it is facing, not which you are facing. Some apps will take
advantage of the GPS to determine direction of movement but clearly you need to
be moving for this to work. I am not sure if Blind Square will
I haven't any tips at this stage, I must confess that I haven't tried to select
that much in one go before. I will play around with it though and see if I come
across anything that could help.
I am really glad that the Democast was able to help somewhat though.
Garth
iblindtech.com
On
I was about to suggest the same two games and yes both are accessible and easy
to learn how to play.
Garth
iblindtech.com
On 06/07/2012, at 12:13 PM, JoJo and Clinton wrote:
Raul,
Is 7 little words pretty accessible and easy to learn how to play?
thank you,
JoJo
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Hi
For an audio description of selecting copying
IOS 6 will be on the phones from 3GS onwards but siri will only be added to the
iPad 3rd Gen and on
On 30/06/2012, at 10:47 AM, SYED IMRAN wrote:
There was news somewhere that Siri will be included in all the phones from
iPhone 3GS onwards in iOS 6?
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That sounds like an issue with the feed, this button in the app works as you
would expect normally.
Garth
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On 30/06/2012, at 6:22 AM, Rose Combs wrote:
If you would like previous episodes of a particular podcast, how do you get
them, I can see View previous episodes: and titles
As far as I can tell, you'll need to buy the upgrade to SpeedUp player Pro so
that you can play files directly from DropBox.
Garth
iblindtech.com
On 29/06/2012, at 5:19 PM, Grant Hardy wrote:
Tara,
Coincidentally, I inquired about the same thing today elsewhere. I
believe Dropbox simply
Yes I have seen some a differences between the results you get on each device.
Most of this is expected but sue is just weird. Apple have recently bought an
app search company and have, it is rumoured, to have started to integrate them.
Search in the app store is pretty poor at times.
Garth
Hi
I don't have experience with jaws 11 and iTunes but that aside, the basic
iTunes interface in windows is very similar to how you would be use to it on
the mac. For example to add music you can just go to the file menu and arrow
down to add folder.
Btw you have the same add to iTunes
speed
option as the digital players, I'd be all over that like ugly on an ape.
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For me, the only feature that I like in Downcast that I can't get in iCatcher
is the ability to toggle continuous playback from the now playing screen.
Downcast has better granularity with it's filters for playlist setup. On the
down side for downcast, I find it a bit sluggish at times. Having
Hi I have had exactly the same issue in the past. It was frustrating me for a
while but after a couple of days it just decided to work and the new maps
downloaded.
Garth
iblindtech.com
On 26/06/2012, at 7:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
When I launch Navigon, I am informed that updates are
I have not seen that the spacebar becomes unresponsive. My best guess is that
you aren't touching it for long enough. This is one thing that does annoy me at
times. When you start to type quick sometimes the key presses aren't
registered. You need to ensure that you wait a fraction of a second
I also love to speed up the playback of podcasts and audio books. The app speed
up player pro is the fastest that I know of. The one thing that annoys me is
the way various apps label the playback speed. Let me explain, Downcast's
fastest speed is labelled as 3X and iCatcher's fastest speed is
I would suggest adding Containers to your rotor in Settings, accessibility,
Voice Over. I don't use braille however I will give you the description of how
it works with a bluetooth keyboard and hope you can do the translation to a
braille display.
Once you have added containers to your rotor
Just touch the top of the screen to find the text field you are working in then
do a swipe. Otherwise your swipes will just move yu through the keyboard.
Garth
iblindtech.com
On 25/06/2012, at 7:58 AM, Paul Ferrara wrote:
Hi, I find myself typing in an edit field and cannot just flick to get
Hi Krister
I believe that the reason that your attempted pinches are being interpreted as
the rotor is that you are changing the angle your fingers are on a bit when you
move them apart. I know you don't have any problems with the rotor but I will
just explain a little to setup the pinch
I love this app and use the favourite every day to help me get off the bus for
work. I need to get off on a road which is basically straight a flat for a
number of kilometres and with ariadne all I need to do is open the app and put
focus on the distance to favourite and it will count down for
Just remember that the emoticons entered via the additional iOS keyboard will
not work if sent to non supported device
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On 01/06/2012, at 5:41 AM, Sean Paul newsandtraf...@aol.com wrote:
Heyya Marco:
As suggested. I have added the emoji keyboard for usage on my iPhone.
of students who are visually impaired. If you
will commit the time to learn braille you will be pleased even if you
use it on a limited basis. You may or may not read novels using
braille but there are many other daily uses of braille.
On 5/29/12, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, I
Hi
You may want to enable containers in the rotor, I am not sure if it will help
much but if you want to use gestures to move around the screen then this will
at least expand your options. I can't remember if it is enabled by default.
Whilst in your mail, use the rotor gesture and see if
If there is no text in the edit field already, each time you double tap you'll
hear VO say insertion point at end of text. If there is some text then each
time you double tap, the insertion point will b moved from beginning to end and
back again. I am not sure why you aren't able to type in
, happier to hear this, and might yet get it to go for a
whirl.
Thanks, RobH.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: BlindSquare
Okay, I finally got home to some wifi
Hi penny
From the description there are a number of things this app will do that four
square wont.
Garth
On 23/05/2012, at 10:59 AM, Penny Reeder penny.ree...@gmail.com wrote:
I have used 4-Square most often when in airports (I always have this
fantasy that I might run into someone I
If you want, you change the Archive button into a Delete button for the gmail
account. Just go and have a dig around in the settings app. go into mail,
ontacts and calendars then into the gmail account in question. You will find
that message archiving is turned on, turn it off and you'll have a
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Subject: Re: creating twitter lists: was Re: twitteriffic and notifications
Okay Go to the more tab. Than my profile, then my lists and there's
it to make it a ringtone.
We've been beating about this bush for quite a while now. I just bought one
in the end.
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Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: ring tones
Yes, if you make
Exactly Scot, should work just fine.
Garth
On 21/05/2012, at 7:33 PM, goshawk on horseback wrote:
that would be worth trying anyway.
Simon
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Tascam IM2
TweetList on the iPhone will work for creating lists.
Garth
On 22/05/2012, at 12:46 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
Hi Melissa, in Twitter for iPhone, you can manage lists, but not create
them. I create my lists using the Qube on my PC, which is by far my
preferred means of accessing Twitter,
Yes, if you make a ringtone you can send it to anyone
On 21/05/2012, at 6:05 AM, scorpionggguni...@gmail.com wrote:
hey i have question if you make ring tones can you send them to ppl thanks
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I tend to do a lot of typing with one thumb. I find that I do the typical dopy
thing of typing while I am walking along. I hold the phone in my right hand and
type with the same thumb. This is where we blind guide dog users have a slight
advantage over our sighted counterparts. At least my
Ok, the two options are sort order and display order. So what i believe you
want is sort order to be Last, first and display order to be first, last. This
does work consistently and exactly as you would expect. If you find that you
have some contacts that are not conforming to the expected
There's two possible solutions
1. go to the Gmail settings on the Internet and see if you can change then to
plaintext only
2 HTML content can be zoomed on the iPhone. You will need to go to the voice
over settings and add zoom to the rotor
Garth
On 16/05/2012, at 9:56 AM, Louie P.
I seriously recommend trying headphones on calls where you will be interacting
with a automated response system.It is in my experience, far far less
frustrating than trying to do it without them.
Garth
On 16/05/2012, at 2:36 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
I'm fine with the vo volume on speaker
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