RE: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Well done, Sieghard! From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:23 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada Hi fellow Canadians, This morning I was

Re: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

Please explain how I would get Alexa with Roger. You've got me curious now. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On May 10, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Scott Davert

Re: Smart Keyboardfor the iPad Pro.

Hi. There is a workaround for that, but I can't remember what it is off the top of my head. You might want to take a listen to David would bridges podcast on Apple this about the iPad Pro. I honestly don't recommend the smart keyboard, I recommend the logitech create keyboard case unless you

MODERATOR NOTE: Policy Regarding Posting Sale or Trade Items to the Group

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My first attempt to use Apple Pay, was: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Hi again, OK, of course I had to try this so when I had to run a few erands today with my manager I asked him to go through the McDonald drive-through. When we came to the pick-up window the lady gave him the machine, I leaned over and held my iPhone 6S Plus up to it after waking it up (I was

Re: My first attempt to use Apple Pay, was: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Hey, I tried this in Walgreens here in Montana (USA). It worked pretty well, and was pretty quick. I tried it when it was announced, and it wasn’t as accessible as I would have liked. I still had to put in a pin on the credit card machine. Thanks, Ed > On May 10, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Sieghard

Downloading & running Workflows from Safari

Hi all, I was Googling around & came across this webpage of WorkFlow Galory. One of the Workflows is downloading Vimeo videos. http://www.workflowgallery.co/ Has anyone successfully opened & ran a Workflow they found via Safari? I’m not having any luck so far.

VoiceOver Speaks Through The Earpiece

Hi, list. I have Iphone5s with IOS9.31. Sometimes VoiceOver switches to the earpiece and I have to restart the phone in order to bring VO back to the main speaker. Is there a way that I don't have to restart the phone to switch VO back to main speaker? Thanks! -- The following information is

RE: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

When I installed Roger it just showed up somewhere and you basically add Alexa just like a Contact and send a message to her, the reply comes a few seconds later. A nice toy to play with, but not that useful. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn

Re: talking guitar tuner

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Re: My first attempt to use Apple Pay, was: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

For what it's worth, when I have used Apple Pay in the States, I have held my phone close to the sensor with my finger already on the home button, and most of the time the transactions go through in mere seconds. A few times they haven't and I have had to enter my passcode or pull a debit card

"Where to Go" dog relief area app issue

Hi, Is anyone here using the "Where to Go" app that tells you dog relief areas in airports? I downloaded it yesterday for the first time. Whenever I click on an airport name to show the relief area for that airport, the app hangs for a second then takes me to my phone's home screen. The app is

RE: VO Doing Doubletalk

I have seen this happen on a 4s too. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Monica Jones Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 2:59 PM To: VIPhone Subject: VO Doing Doubletalk Sometimes when I’m using VO, it begins to sound like there are two voices at

IPad Pro 9.7 inch and the Smart Keyboard

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Re: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

I'll stick with Hound, which is better than Siri. Kelly On 5/10/16, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > When I installed Roger it just showed up somewhere and you basically add > Alexa just like a Contact and send a message to her, the reply comes a few > seconds later. A nice toy to

Re: VoiceOver Speaks Through The Earpiece

Hi there, Every now and then I also experienced similar behavior. Especially, after I've used apps such as what's app and Roger. What works for me, is to kill all the apps in the app switcher. You might want to try this and see if it works before rebooting your phone. Good luck, HTH. Sent

Re: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Hi Sieghard, In my case, I called the CIBC 800 number and selected to talk to a human. The guy walked me through it. In my case, I had already been using my CIBC Visa card in the Apple store so it came up automatically with the 4 last digits showing. I just had to tap on add and agree to

How to transfer videos from ipod to windows computer

Dear all. I had transferred some videos from my computer to iPod for. The computer since then has been formatted. Now I want to transfer those videos back to computer so that I can play them on my computer as well as Play them on other devices. Please let me know what should be the

TCL App is it broken?

Hi Everyone, I tried to open the TCL Pulse app on my iPad and iPhone and it will not open. It worked before with no issues. I think after I updated my iPad to IOS 9.3.1 now it does not open. I just got my iPhone and downloaded the PCL Pulse app a couple days ago but just now tried to open it and

Re: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

And, it seems to me like its only available in the US. They refused my Amazon.ca account. From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 4:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone When I installed Roger it just showed up

Re: My first attempt to use Apple Pay, was: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Sieghard, Apple says you don’t have to but the guy at CIBC told me the wallet app should be open. I don’t know either way because I haven’t tried it yet. Apple says you can do it from the locked screen if you tap the home button twice but, if VO is active, that double tap goes to the app

Re: My first attempt to use Apple Pay, was: Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Hi ED, Not all credit card machines can take a tap of the card and, from what I was told, Apple pay works on the terminals where you can tap the card. Ron & Danvers From: Ed Worrell Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:28 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My first attempt to use Apple

Re: VoiceOver Speaks Through The Earpiece

I am also facing similar issue with seeri voice. Specially when I am using Bluetooth headset, voiceover comes in Bluetooth headset, while seeri is heard in earpeace. I don't know why. On 5/11/16, Julian wrote: > Hi there, > > Every now and then I also experienced similar

Re: App that wil show current location with name of town

Enable tracking via native iOS maps app and you can obtain address, street, city and state details. BlindSquare is great, but the maps app will do the trick. Regards, Feliciano For tech tips and updates, LIKE www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow www.twitter.com/theblindman12v > On May 10,

Re: Samantha Speaking Non-alphanumeric Characters when UK Daniel Set as Default Voice

hello, just wondered, but all honestly, if you add another language to your rotor, that will fix it. Quicker and easier than even changing languages or countries. Sent from my iPhone 5S > On 10 May 2016, at 1:37 pm, Craig Werner wrote: > > The suggestion of switching

Re: Samantha Speaking Non-alphanumeric Characters when UK Daniel Set as Default Voice

Yes indeed, the rotor suggestion works perfectly. Craig On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, rajmund wrote: > hello, > just wondered, but all honestly, if you add another language to your > rotor, that will fix it. Quicker and easier than even changing languages or > countries. >

Re: Any possibility to use english india seeri male voice for voiceover?

Hello, You need to find out which accent India uses, as when I just switched language, my accent stayed. In this case, it was British female. In other words, is India using British, American, or Australian male? Sent from my iPhone 5S > On 10 May 2016, at 2:00 pm, Mohib Anwar Rafay

Smart Keyboardfor the iPad Pro.

Does anyone have one of these keyboards? I am having a very hard time getting the caps lock plus space bar to work. It won't let me press up and down arrows together to do a one-finger double tap. I have to use VO plus space bar. It is really touchy. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Jenn

RE: App that wil show current location with name of town

Ifind Siri often just shows you the address and city when you ask for your location, or sometimes even when you say "where am I?" If you say "tell me where I am" it more often will speak the information instead of just displaying it. Blind Square will speak the intersection, address and city

Audible with Voiceover Tutorial

I have only come upon one podcast where using Audible with voiceover has been demontrated which is Applevis Podcast Number 936. Is anyone aware of any other audio demonstration of the Audible App with Voiceover? Thanks for any guidance. Regards, Michelle -- The following information is

Any possibility to use english india seeri male voice for voiceover?

I am here in India using iPhone SE 64gb. I like seeri male voice. I went into setting>general>seeri, the selected language is there "English India", and voice is seeri male. I want to use this voice as main voice for voiceover. I am checking under voiceover setting, there is no English india so

Re: App that wil show current location with name of town

Have you looked at the native Maps app, or perhaps Google Maps? Also, I think you can simply say, "Location" to Siri and get some of that info too. Depending on what you're looking for and what your goal is, these may meet your needs. There are probably apps which say the location along with the

Re: can't seem to change vo voice

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks. Sieghard, I took your advice and added Alex to the roder, and somehow that solved the issue, but only because I could change the language using the roder, but still couldn't do it the "old-fashioned way" i.e. by just selecting it like I used to be able to do.

Problems charging iPhone

All, I am having some issues charging my iPhone 6S with the Apple Smart Battery case. Up until about 10 days ago I wasn't having any problems at all. I started noticing that my phone was not charged over night. I always plug it in by my bed so it can charge over night. I had been plugging it into

Re: Samantha Speaking Non-alphanumeric Characters when UK Daniel Set as Default Voice

The suggestion of switching countries is a sensible one, but it seems to me too radical a step to take to rectify a problem that should not be occurring in the first place. Dealing with two voices is not the end of the world for me.I'll let apple sort things out from here. Thank you for your

Re: Any possibility to use english india seeri male voice for voiceover?

I have tried all voices given there, except those which are yet to be downloaded, but I am pretty sure seeri is not using the accent which is not already downloaded in the language section of voiceover. On 5/10/16, rajmund wrote: > Hello, > You need to find out which

Re: Notifications from the iOS Mail app from specific messages

Thanks a lot for this. When looking into your steps, I discovered that notify Me is in the More option in the actions rodar. Now, if I want to stop a message or thread from notifying me, would I go through the same process? I enabled Notify Me on a message I sent last night, but then when I looked

Re: App that will show current location with name of town

I just ask Ciri where I am. she states current address and town. just say: Ciri, where am I? -Original Message- From: Wayne Merritt Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: App that wil show current location with name of town Have you looked at

RE: Problems charging iPhone

Hi Wayne, I would try to isolate the issue. From what you said there are 5 variables involved: 1. the power bar plugged into your wall outlet which you said you already changed 2. the Apple wall adapter which is plugged into your power bar 3. the Lightning cable 4. The Apple battery case 5.

Re: Is there an accessible pedometer app?

Hello, You could use Pedometer++ It doesn’t use GPS and doesn’t drain the battery in the slightest, and best of all it’s free. If you want to support the developer you can donate or tip I can’t remember which. It is not mandatory as you get all of the functions in the free version. Ed > On

Re: Problems charging iPhone

Hi Wayne, I have had this same case on my iPhone 6S for about a month, and sometimes it does nothing when I plug the lightning cable in. So when that happens, I unplug it from the case, reboot the phone, then plug it back in and all is well. Kind of a pain, but not much of one. Smile! Hope

RE: Audible with Voiceover Tutorial

I am not aware of any Podcasts but if you ask your questions I'm sure you will probably get good answers since I know many people here including myself use the Audible app on a daily bases and are very familiar with it. Overall I would say the app is fairly straight forward and while there have

Re: Problems charging iPhone

hi, Does phone charge without case? Sent from my iPhone 5S > On 10 May 2016, at 2:52 pm, Wayne Merritt wrote: > > All, > I am having some issues charging my iPhone 6S with the Apple Smart > Battery case. Up until about 10 days ago I wasn't having any problems > at all. I

RE: App that wil show current location with name of town

I just asked Siri “where am I located?” and it gave me the full address. Of course, it was to the house located behind me, but close enough for this little test. And yes, the entire address including city was spoken. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: A strange concept of what constituteS * recen

where did you set that? - Original Message - From: "Tony" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 3:43 AM Subject: RE: A strange concept of what constituteS * recen I assume you can change the number of called stored in the recent list. My 4s stores

ITUNES AND UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10

Hi all, The time has come for me to upgrade the computer on which I have iTunes and I really need advice, as soon as possible, as it's being sorted tomorrow by a tech friend who knows much better than I, but he doesn't use iTunes. Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to ensure that I

Re: Notifications from the iOS Mail app from specific messages

Strange, i didn't kno this. Interesting. Sent from my iphone ‫ב-10 במאי 2016, בשעה 16:24, ‏‏Wayne Merritt ‏ כתב/ה:‬ > Thanks a lot for this. When looking into your steps, I discovered that > notify Me is in the More option in the actions rodar. Now, if I want > to stop a

RE: A strange concept of what constituteS * recen

You can't, I've been an iPhone user for a pretty long time and have been on this list for about as long, but never have I found such a setting anywhere or heard about it before. I guess one can use the 3-finger single tap gesture to hear what row one is on in the recents list and it will also

Re: Is there an accessible pedometer app?

In my experience, Run Keeper works very well both for running and walking. Take care, Lois From: David Cleveland Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 7:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Is there an accessible pedometer app? I have used run keeper and thought it was pretty helpful. To be

Re: Samantha Speaking Non-alphanumeric Characters when UK Daniel Set as Default Voice

Hello, What a about changing countries, as well?, Sent from my iPhone 5S > On 10 May 2016, at 4:30 am, Craig Werner wrote: > > But even if I switch the root language to English UK by going to > "Settings -> General -> Language and Region," Samantha Default speaks > the

RE: ITUNES AND UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10

If you have some sort of external drive or USB stick large enough it's best if you simply copy the entire iTunes folder to it. In case you have to reinstall iTunes you can do so, then before you open the program for the first time delete the iTunes folder the install created in your Music

Apple Pay finally gets main stream support in Canada

Hi fellow Canadians, This morning I was browsing through the news articles with the CBC News app on my iPhone and in the Tech and Science section found an article which surprised me and also made me quite happy. The article explained that as of today CIBC and Royal Bank credit card holders can

Re: So long, Siri: How to get Amazon Alexa on your iPhone

Just use the Roger app, which is free, and get at Alexa that way. I know Canada has that app. As for Lexi, it's not technically accessible, but there is only one button on the screen. I could not get VO to find the button, but was able to activate it with VO turned off. Scott On 5/9/16, Shawn

Re: A strange concept of what constituteS * recen

My "Recents" on my old 5 and my current 6S have 100 entries. Each entry may refer to multiple incoming and outgoing calls. I just always thought 100 was the iPhone default because i sure didn't set anything. Have fun! Sent from Debby's iPad > On May 10, 2016, at 3:32 AM, Sieghard Weitzel

Apple Router & Xpress

I have an apple router model number a1354 and an airport express for trade or sell. I'm sure everyone on this list already knows what these two items do but here is a little information on the router. If interested send offers to kingme...@comcast.net. AirPort Extreme Base Station with

Re: dice world

I am MamaPeach67 on Dice World. I play everything, except Pig. -Original Message- From: Amber Harmon Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 10:30 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: dice world Hi All I am amber cat on there Mamapeach who are you on there would like to play gainst you.

App that wil show current location with name of town

Hello list I am looking for an app which will show my current location but it must also tell the name of the town or city. Regards Fanus -- 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