Sorry folks, just to be clear about the time for the BlindSquare giveaway, the time I gave is my local time here in New Zealand. That translates to Sundays at 2 Pm Eastern, 7 pM in the UK. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 31/05/2015, at 9:04 am, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. If you've wanted a copy of BlindSquare GPS but perhaps haven't > had the budget for it, I hope I might be able to bring a smile to your face > this weekend. > This week on my Internet radio show, The Mosen Explosion, I'll be giving away > three copies of the soon-to-be-released version 3 of the popular BlindSquare > app for iOS. > BlindSquare is on my list of apps I wouldn't want to be without. It's a > popular accessible GPS-app developed for the blind and visually impaired. It > describes the environment, announces points of interest and street > intersections as you travel. In conjunction with free, third-party navigation > apps it is a powerful solution providing most of the information blind and > visually impaired people need to travel independently. > BlindSquare is self-voicing, announcing points of interest, intersections and > user-defined points through a dedicated speech synthesiser. The most > important BlindSquare functions can be accessed through an audio menu via any > headset or speaker that supports Apple’s music controller. This means you > don’t need to touch the screen of your phone looking for tiny buttons when > you travel with BlindSquare, because many functions can be activated using > the physical buttons of your headset or bluetooth speaker. If you are blind > or visually impaired, BlindSquare is your safe, reliable, and accessible > GPS-solution. BlindSquare is available for iPhone and iPad in the App Store, > and soon, it'll be updated to version 3. > Here are just a few of the new features in the soon-to-be-released version. > Navigating in-doors in large buildings is a challenge yet to be solved by > technology. BlindSquare now supports BlindSquare BPS (Beacon Positioning > System), an indoor navigation system based on iBeacons. It is currently > available at a few places only, but will hopefully become available at more > venues soon. > If you use a stereo headset with BlindSquare, you will now hear the alert > sound played from the direction of the point of interest that is being > announced. > BlindSquare now supports the TransitTimes+ public transport app. > If you use BlindSquare on an iPhone 6 or 6plus, you can check changes in > elevation. Based on your device’s barometer, the GPS-Info screen shows your > elevation compared to when you started BlindSquare. There is also a button > letting you reset your elevation to the current reading. > The app now uses less memory, and knows about even more places. > This is a cool app, and if you don't have it yet, I have three copies to give > away on this week's Mosen Explosion. Tune in, and there'll be some fun, > innovative, but easy ways to join the fun and have a chance of winning. > The show is on Monday mornings between 6 AM and 10 AM. You can listen via the > website, http://MosenExplosion.com <http://mosenexplosion.com/>, or you can > search for the Mosen Channel in almost every popular app, such as TuneIn > Radio, Ootunes, iTunes, Apple TV, iBlink Radio and the Victor Reader Stream. > Good luck to those who enter. It's a great app. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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