Now on this one I would say that I used to agree with your logic,
however now-a-days, especially with keyboards easily available, if
taking down notes, emails, or long typing is involved, iPads are not
that bad. If you use an app like Drafts especially whether it's with
dictation or a
No. It's the iPad Air and the iPhone 5s which both have the same chip.
Regards,
Alan
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being
ridiculous - everyone
hasn't met me yet.
Please click on:
HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/
There, you'll find free files of
As far as I've been able to figure, iPad Air, iPad Mini with retina display,
and iPhone 5S all have the a7 chip.
Teresa
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at
--Lewis Carroll
On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net
wrote:
No. It's
And the iPad mini too.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 24/06/2014 18:51, Alan Paganelli wrote:
No. It's the iPad Air and the iPhone 5s which both have the same chip.
Regards,
Alan
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I
No, it seems the iPad Mini without retina display actually has the a5 chip. The
iPad with retina display has the A6X chip.
Teresa
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at
--Lewis Carroll
On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Christopher Hallsworth
christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
The iPhone 5s and the iPad Air both have the a7 chip which is the first 64
bit chip in a smart phone.
Regards,
Alan
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being
ridiculous - everyone
hasn't met me yet.
Please click on:
HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/
That's what i meant the iPad mini with retina.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 24/06/2014 20:13, Teresa Cochran wrote:
No, it seems the iPad Mini without retina display actually has the a5 chip. The
iPad with retina display has the A6X chip.
The iPad Air has the same chip as does the iPhone 5s. Both are 64 bit
architecture.
Regards,
Alan
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being
ridiculous - everyone
hasn't met me yet.
Please click on:
HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/
There, you'll find
Oops, I caused confusion, I think. I meant to ask if the iPad Air and the Mini
have the same a7 chip.
Teresa
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at
--Lewis Carroll
On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net
wrote:
The iPad Air has the same
Yes the mini with retina has the same hardware such as the chip as the Air.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 23/06/2014 20:19, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Oops, I caused confusion, I think. I meant to ask if the iPad Air and the Mini
have the same
I would go with the iPad Air instead of the mini sense she is looking for
something to replace an aging computer. The iPad Air in a QWERTY keyboard
case is around the size of a Windows Netbook or a screen size that's roughly
10 by 5 inches. Before 50 people write in to give me the exact
Hey, Alan, et al,
I think I saw those same keyboards for the Minis as well. My thought is that in
that case, the only difference between the two iPads is screen size, which I
don't care about, since I have no sight. They are about $100 US different in
price. They have the same chip, right? Of
Ok, an update on my situation: today was a bit of a roller coaster. The Apple
Store called and said the logic board checked out. I gave them the go-ahead to
replace the hard drive. Late this afternoon, the original genius bar guy I
contacted called back and said the USB ports briefly lost
I admire all this and thank you for describing it for us.
We just don't like having to start over with the learning process having got
comfortable with one already, but accept your accessibility comments
seriously enough to make that effort.
I'd still be happier if the means of importing and
AAaah, My first was Amstrad in 1986, and yes, not seen a floppy in years. I
always had tandom drives and brought material from hd to hd. But yes, got
external usb drive now. 250Gb, not a lot by today's standard, but more than
enough in plain text.
I've not had great success with ss memory
True, but deterioration rates should be less, and each transfer effectively
refreshes the data to full strength. True, a glitch could also proliferate
at each re-write. A new copy is only as good as the old one. So taking a
new copy sooner to minimise the degradation of the old one.
I don't
The nearest we have to this, is an adapter to take an SD card, which is just
as good. Still a lightening connector, she uses on her iPad Mini.
- Original Message -
From: Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: If
Please keep a list informed as to when these things become available, will you?
Thanks, Sandy
Sent from my iPhone
On 21 Jun 2014, at 05:18, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote:
Billy,
The flashdrive David referred to is made to work with iDevices and to plug
directly into the
A means to plug external memory products to your iDevice. Like I said a bit
back, She got an Adapter off Apple themselves over here, which is a little
thing with the Lightening connector plug, less than 3inches of cable, then a
wide bit on the end, about the shape of the old connector, bigger,
Wondrful!... this is getting better all the time.
- Original Message -
From: David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: If Anyone Is Using Only iDevices and No Computer, How Are You
Faring?
It is a flash
Every system you ever learned was just as hard, at the time of learning, as
this new conception is now. But, just think, you can always go back to the
significantly more expensive and less full-featured AT products that tend to
separate you from the sighted public.
David Chittenden, MSc,
Hunmnm,.. I didn't know this either, I have been in a dark place for a
long time.
Sorry, what I meant was - you can get at music and play it without hauling
it through iTunes.
This and the growing number of external storage solutions is making this
more appealing all the time.
RobH.
We could live with it if the app was accessible.
Better if existing file managers like Ubidisk and Phonedrive? could handle
the external devices themselves.
RobH.
- Original Message -
From: Grant Hardy grantha...@outlook.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014
Apparently, the biggest problem with solid-state memory is the controller. The
memory is estimated to last 60,000 rewrite cycles before starting to fail,
which is significantly longer than HD technology. What fails is the memory
allocation controller.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email:
Oh, and that is 60,000 cycles per sector. If I remember correctly, the magneto
layer on the HD platter is between 10,000 and 20,000 read/write cycles per
sector. However, the highspeed spinning actually slowly causes magnetic layer
degradation.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email:
We will see what happens with iOS 8. Apple refuses to sacrifice security, and
given the nature and extreme portability of the iPhone, I personally agree with
their approach.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 21 Jun 2014,
Hard drive sectors can be written over up to 300,000 times on spinning hard
drives which are not even considered enterprise drives but are considered
good drives such as the Western Digital Black series.
Maybe older hard drives, but this is no longer the case and hasn't been for
years.
New drives can run healthily for some 11 years max--under special conditions
of course.
I believe it was Google who released a paper some time ago stating that the
average life of their spinning hard drives was 5
Thank you, I forgot the proper number of zeros.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 21 Jun 2014, at 23:02, Joseph FreeTech joseph.freet...@gmail.com wrote:
Hard drive sectors can be written over up to 300,000 times on
Thanks for the thoughts and discussion. This thread is great.
Random musing: I can only think of one thing I would miss about the computer at
this point: being able to transfer files to and from my ancient Braille Lite
40, which still works just fine, and has a long battery life. (Speaking of
Can you access the data on the sd card from the ipad? Such as music,
audio books etc.?
On 6/21/2014 3:23 AM, RobH. wrote:
A means to plug external memory products to your iDevice. Like I said a bit
back, She got an Adapter off Apple themselves over here, which is a little
thing with the
For saving and reading backup, these figures are overkill impressive, but SS
is getting into mainstream drives and having to cope with being virtual
memory for swapping in and out by the system. In that circumstance, I don't
think that would amount to anything so impressive in running time
Oh fond memories, the old BnS 200 was my best bit of kit for noting and
looking them up. Flick it on, boot up in seconds, do my thing, flick it
off. Used to go months without use and still work. But battery died
eventually, and longer before I chased doing anything about it. It's over
20
That's what Mrs is doing, she has outdoor auto-cameras on time-lapse or
motion-sense and full IR night capability; these feed pics and video onto
SD cards. She gathers the cards in and looks at the new wildlife footage on
her iPad mini.
- Original Message -
From: Russ Kiehne
There's also the Kingston MobileLite Wireless, is a piece of hardware that can
accept USB sticks or SD or microSD cards that connects to your iPhone via WiFi.
You access files on the media put into the MobileLite through the MobileLite
app. Apart from some VO focus issues and some poorly though
Sandy, I've been using idevices, and on lists about them for just over three
years, and I've never heard of this. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean
it's not possible, but it's the sort of thing I'd probably have heard of if it
was.
Cheers
Alex
-Original Message-
From:
Hello Teresa, I would recommend you get a iPad mini if that suits your needs.
It is a good device. I also have a iPad mini and are you for the following gate
some music, texting, and so much more. Comes very useful for my needs.
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Teresa Cochran
HI. where are the blue tooth drives available from?
Maria and Joe Chapman
bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
On 21 Jun 2014, at 2:16 pm, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a flash drive with both an Apple certified Lightning connector and a
standard USB connector.
The company
Actually, it is a bluetooth drive connector. One must acquire the external USB
drive separately. I will find the information and send it.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 22 Jun 2014, at 16:34, Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. thank you. this is the first time Ive heard of anything like this.
Warm regards and blessings
Maria, Joe and FurBabies
Email: iMessage:bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
On 22 Jun 2014, at 2:39 pm, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, it is a bluetooth drive connector. One
Hi,
I may be wrong here: but I am under the impression you can plug USB drives into
your router and then upload data to those drives from your IOS device. Perhaps,
someone here may know more about this…
Interested,
Sandy
Sent from my iPhone
On 19 Jun 2014, at 16:57, 'David Goldfield' via
i use my iPhone 5 extensively and got an iPad a year ago to share with my
sighted husband. I am glad he uses it since I don't bother with it at all
anymore as I can do anything on my phone that I could do on the iPad. I find
the iPad very difficult to use as the screen layouts are so different
I actually find Safari on my iPhone to be quicker to navigate than Safari on my
Mac, or IE on an office PC. Then again, I use the touchscreen exclusively for
navigating.
I do all my email on my iPhone. I turn my MacBook Air on once or twice per
week, currently. I write all my case notes for
I had one of those devices before, I just could not work with the iPad mini
in the landscape position, seemed that everything tried to open before I
could even touch it, have a Logitech BT keyboard for mine now and it works
great, or did until it seems everything in my house seems to not want to
Hi Rose;
I can't imagine how difficult it is for you.
Here is our phone number:
(856) 885-1730
If you have any iPhone or equipment problems, please call me.
I know it can be frustrating to wait for an answer from the list.
With Warmest Regards
Anthony
y
Sent from my iPhone 5s!
On Jun 20,
Hi David,
What edit program are you using to write your case notes? If I may ask, are you
relying on voiceover or can you see the screen?
I am asking because it seems that the weakest part of the iPhone for blind
users seems to be the text editors. Otherwise, all of the other components are
No calls right now, dealing with business oriented stuff, for the
foreseeable future, and reluctant to trust since over the past weeks all
help seems to create more problems than solutions, need to figure out what I
will be responsible for paying, figure finances, where I am going if I am
going
I'm glad you wrote this. The youngsters haven't got half a lifetimes
accumulation of written work to manage. this is ever my issue with giving
up a PC of any type when this argument arises. Great here and now consumer
infotainment iGismo; but the more seniors brought an awful lot of material
Just thought I could help.
Can't give it away.
Take care
Anthony
Sent from my iPhone 5s!
On Jun 20, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Rose Combs roseco...@q.com wrote:
No calls right now, dealing with business oriented stuff, for the
foreseeable future, and reluctant to trust since over the past weeks
I use VoiceOver. My vision is limited to slightly better than light perception.
What I do is slowly explore the screen, the same way a sighted person would do
with vision. VO reads the text in the line under one's finger and places the
read cursor either at the beginning or the end of the line,
I started working with computers in 1983. Every time media upgrades, I transfer
all relevant files from the old media that is becoming obsolete, to the new
media. At this point, all my old stuff is taking up part of a one terabyte
external HD. Much easier to haul around with me, and I know the
David,
actually, your current hard drive has the same type of magnetic surface as
your previous floppies and is also susceptible to data rot, so you might
want to reconsider how you're storing such old data.
A hard disk drive platter (or disk) is the circular disk on which magnetic
data is
I have an old Braille Lite 40 that I still use for ramblings. As for writings
on iDevice, I use Notes and Pages. I use my Braille display most ofthe time,
and intend to use a keyboard. I can comfortably use the virtual keyboard, but
it's impractical in my opinion to expect to use it
What??? There are sticks with lightning ports??? This is much nicer than I
expected. Wow.
Teresa, doing a happy dance
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at
--Lewis Carroll
On Jun 20, 2014, at 2:47 PM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
I started working with
Yes, and, the data can become corrupt when not accessed for an extended period
of time. It is safer to have the data stored on multiple media, and even safer
to utilise at least one off-site storage solution.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
It is a KickStarter project which just got funded. They are projecting a
September fulfilment time, so it will hopefully be sometime between September
and December. They raised so much funds that I expect to see the product for
sale generally by the beginning of next year.
David Chittenden,
Well, that is fascinating. I'll definitely be monitoring this.
Teresa
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at
--Lewis Carroll
On Jun 20, 2014, at 8:26 PM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a KickStarter project which just got funded. They are projecting a
what is this new thing? a flash drive that uses a different connector? I
hate sounding like a uneducated person but, Not sure how this is
different or better than the flash drives we now have.
Billy Maynard
- Original Message -
From: Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com
To:
It is a flash drive with both an Apple certified Lightning connector and a
standard USB connector.
The company has also released, to the general market, a bluetooth drive port
with USB ports for external drives. So, there are a couple ways available to
store data from an iOS device that are
Billy,
The flashdrive David referred to is made to work with iDevices and to plug
directly into the Lightning port of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. This
would be of great value for people who would like to have access to data
which does not fit on their iPhone or iPad. I believe the drive is
But you would still need ITunes to transfer data I imagine? it'd be
great if they'd have maybe two paths to transfer: ITunes, and via
regular USB!
El 20/06/2014 11:18 p.m., Sieghard Weitzel escribió:
Billy,
The flashdrive David referred to is made to work with iDevices and to plug
directly
Yes, but Apple is under agreements with music labels that they will not do this
with their music app. So, you need to use one of the many third-party music
apps available on the App Store. I have a couple which are pretty good.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile:
I imagine you would use some kind of file manager app that was made by the
manufacturer of the flash drive. This could allow you to store and manage
files including copying them to or from your device. The app could also
allow you to play back media. I could be wrong, though.
Grant
-Original
The mail app that comes with the i-devices can be a pain if you get a lot a lot
of email, but it is possible. The only problem I see is that you don't have
any additional memory issues with an i-device as you do a computer. I
seriously doubt that the mail app will ever be a productive and
Teresa,
The one thing I would add to what others have said is that, in my
experience, there doesn't seem to be a word processor available for
the iPad that can match the muscle of MS Word. Even my friends who are
devoted Mac users still return to Word for heavy-duty word processing.
I love my
Hi
I will completely agree 100% here.
I use a mac exclusively for personal stuff, but for any kind of productive
stuff I use windows. E.G. Embossing, word processing, work related email and
excel etc.
Otherwise I use the mac for itunes, mail, browsing etc.
I also have a few notetakers that I use
Actually, the only thing that really holds me back from going completely to
iOS, other than the fact that I do enjoy playing with my technology, is that I
don't yet have a way to use the braille embosser and do braille translation
without my Mac and/or linux; actually even with linux I can't at
Hmm, I don't find taking down a quick note to be trouble. I guess it's all in
what you are used to; I do have braille and that probably helps. But if by
turning on edit mode you mean double-tapping the text field, I don't find that
to be trouble myself. But it would be a boring and rather
Hi,
I would also add that Numbers for IOS is somewhat accessible but it isn't
nearly as accessible or as efficient to use as MS Excel for the PC.
HTH,
Scott Duck
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Kimber Gardner
Sent: Thursday,
I actually use IMAP with Mail, so this doesn't seem to be an issue for me.
Teresa
Winging its way from my iPod
On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:33 AM, melissa tucker melissatuck...@att.net wrote:
The mail app that comes with the i-devices can be a pain if you get a lot a
lot of email, but it is
I certainly wouldn't use an iPad if the virtual keyboard was the only input
option and I had to turn the rotor to edit mode. Cheryl, thanks for your
thoughts. It does also look to me as if mobile devices are the wave of the
future. They aren't there yet, but they will be very soon.
I rarely do
For me, the real issue with using an iOS device as my only computer
would be how data can and can't be backed up. I know there are online
backup services but I'd like to be able to back up data onto thumb
drives. Also, while my iPhone is now my primary book player, I'd still
like the option
Perhaps the third party keyboard support and whatever this Braille input
is will make typing much more productive in iOS8. Just to throw in a
comment regarding typing as of now.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 19/06/2014 02:51, Joseph
There are cases out there which let you put an iPad in a holder on the top.
It then looks like a laptop with the iPad laying sideways. Mine has the
home button to the right. Then there is a QWERTY style keyboard on the
lower half and the two halves close like a laptop. The connection of the
I would say that if you only did email and web browsing with a document here or
there, you could easily make the change. I know for traveling the iPad Air
with both WI-FI and Cellular lets you access the web and email in more places
then just WI-FI alone. If you insist on your music
I keep a laptop for a couple of reasons. I like to have external drives. we
have *tons* of music on our external harddrive. I would run out of space on an
ipad, even one with the most storage.
that is my number one reason for keeping a computer.
Alia
On Jun 18, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Teresa
Writing is going to be a bit of a headache since you will have to turn on
the edit mode on the iPad whenever you need to type text. Someone typed up
an article regarding best apps for text entry, and I ran a quick search for
you and did not find it, but the article is definitely on the AppleVis
Hi, I've heard people have tried this with different levels of success.
The majority haven't had success because an iPad is more of a media device then
a work tool. It all depends on what you are planning on doing.
On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote:
Hi, all,
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