Re: Hanging Up Calls
I did a quick search of the archives, and found this thread about difficulties with hanging up a call. Was wondering if there were other threads about this as well, or if others have been experiencing the same issue. I seem to have a lot of difficulty doing a two-fingered double tap to end a call. It works 100% of the time when I am pausing or restarting books in the audible app. I've gone through the practice and never fail for the two-finger tap to register. I even placed calls from my land line to my cell phone and attempt to hang up from the cell phone. It fails to hang up most of the time. I am under know pressure since it is only me on the other end. I take my time, try various finger positions, various locations, but it refuses to disconnect. So, is it only me and the person who started this thread that are having this issue? Did the person who started the thread get better at hanging up or are you still having the issue? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: red laser
So, just for fun, I decided to try out the QR code ability of Red Laser. I found a site to generate a QR code. I entered the following text: This is a test to see if I can read plain text from a QR code using Red Laser. I then downloaded the jpg file that was generated. I displayed it on my screen. I fired up Red Laser, and before I had fully lined up the phone with my monitor, it pingged and I could read back the text that was embedded in the code. This is awesome! Dan Rossi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: red laser
I contacted Red Laser with a couple of questions. The responses were useful. Firstly they do not allow for an alternative barcode database, it is theirs, and theirs alone. Not terribly surprising as they are probably trying to drive merchants to register with them. They claim to have the largest registry around, 50 million codes. The second response was much more interesting, and one I should have thought of. We have discussed how to do personal tagging of items. Well, QR codes actualy encode text, so you can actually print your own QR codes and tag your own items. Then when you scan that tag, it will read out whatever you encoded in the QR code. This way you can use Red Laser as a reader for personally tagged items as well as UPC tagged items. I am liking this more and more. Dan Rossi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: red laser
Sorry, didn't remember the part of the thread about using QR codes for personalized tagging. You are correct though, since the tag is essentially the text, you would have to print a different tag for any specific text you wanted encoded. I really like your idea of using a URL and changing the text files on the back end. Very creative. Anyway, to contact Red Laser, I went to their site, RedLaser.com, clicked on support, and at the very bottom is an email Us link. I had to use Fire Fox since there was a CAPTCHA. They had an audio CAPTCHA, but it was impossible for me to understand. They also tried to make me read some articles related to my question, but you can force it to submit your question anyway. I also thanked them for a useful app, and one that was pretty much accessible out of the box. Miles, who seems to answer all of their questions on their support site, was helpful and appreciative. Dan Rossi. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: red laser
I expect that some of the issues people are having with barcode scanning may be due to the phone they are using. The 5S is going to do better than a 5 or 4S simply because it has more processing power and better optics. Lighting is something that is easily forgotten. When I was working on the currency identification package for the old Nokia phones, I was cruising along through a set of bills, testing them over and over. At some point, I was getting miss after miss. The softtware just refused to identify anything which was surprising because it had been doing so well. What happened was that my wife went up to bed and turned the lights off on her way upstairs. With the advent of all these barcode or OCR options for cell phones, we also cannot forget the old options of a scanner and your computer, if you have that available to you. You do not need one of the adaptive options for OCR, so it can be done pretty cheaply, since most scanners come with free OCR software. I'm not saying that is an option for everyone, but we can often easily forget some tricks as we learn new ones. I had to learn this lesson when I started working on the bar code scanning project. I always assumed the bar code was on the price sticker. it isn't. The bar code is simply printed on the label or box, so you can't feel it. If you are concentrating on the area of a sticker, you are not going to find the bar code. If a bar code scanner gives you a code, but no product description, you can plug that into UPCDatabase.com and possibly find the product. There are other UPC databases, UPCDatabase.com is just the one I typically use. You can even plug it into directionsForMe.org and get the cooking instructions or whatever else from the product packaging. Anyway, at least at this time, I don't believe that any one tool will be a single solution for all scenarios, so I am glad there are various ways to skin various cats. Dan Rossi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: red laser
Hi folks. A couple of things for me to report here. Firstly, I was part of a group attempting to do barcode reading on a Nokea 6620 using Talks about 9 years ago. We attempted to use a two different Bluetooth barcode scanners. However, they were mono-directional and very difficult to use. Omni-directional scanners are inherently larger, but much easier for a blind person to find a barcode. We did not have the computer vision skills to actually identify and extract a barcode from the video feed. The apps that are now doing this are doing pretty well from what I can tell. I congratulate them all on overcoming a rather difficult computer vision problem. I just downloaded the Red Laser app and was blown away by how easy it was for me to quickly identify a couple of products. Did a slow scan of a couple of products, heard the bing, then flicked around until I heard the product that was scanned. Very easy, very smooth. Next. I saw that someone in this thread had scanned a package of Trader Joe's dried mangos. They said the app didn't identify the product. Since I happen to have a package of the self-same mango, I scanned it. I got the hit quickly, although had to flip the package over once, but got just the bar code number: 00071000. So, I went to www.UPCDatabase.com, entered the number in the edit box, hit submit and poof: Trader Joe's Just Mango Slices Size/Weight 6 OZ Issuing Country United States Last Modified 9 Feb 2010, 9:01 AM Other things of note. When I searched the app store to find Red Laser, the product description said barcode and QR code reader. So it does read QR codes. I haven't figured out yet, if I can save this barcode in RedLaser and give it the proper name and such, but overall, I am thrilled at the functionality here. Dan Rossi. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: using iPhone without sim card?
Sorry, I haven't followed this thread that closely, but for anecdotal evidence, when I received my IPhone 5S, I didn't activate it immediately. I was just coming on call for work and couldn't be dealing with the issues of learning a new phone while trying to field calls and respond to time sensitive texts. So, I didn't activate the phone, continued using my old phone, but played around with the new IPhone via my WiFi connection at home and at work. Seemed like it did nearly everything but make or receive phone calls. When I came off my on-call rotation, I activated the phone and just went on from there. On 11/6/13, Kliphton --- kliphton@outlook.com wrote: How do you use an iPhone on WiFi without a sim card? I have an iPhone 4, that I want to use on WiFi, but it keeps asking for sim card to be entered. Kliphton ~iMessageEmail~ kliphton@outlook.com ~Twitter,Instagram,FourSquareSkype~ kliphton72 ~Text only~ 914-820-2298 Personal blog-read at your own risk! http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Using the Seeing Eye App in a Mall
Interior navigation is a holy grail of navigation. these days. I have had many conversations with professors here at the university about this, and it is currently not achievable without very large infrastructure modifications to buildings. GPS just does not work in doors. Cell is not good enough for triangulation. Even indoor broadcasting is problematic because of multipathing, radio waves bounce all over the place and their arrival time to your receiver can actually be quite off from their actual distance to you. Bluetooth is OK for basic broadcasting of data, say from a specific store, but still makes for issues with navigation. For example, you could walk into a mall, have the mall load it's map onto your device, then bluetooth transmitters could tell your device what store you are passing close to, and then an app on your device would corelate that with the internal map and begin some form of path planning. This is great, but it again requires a lot of infrastructure changes. Installation and maintenance of all the transmitters, developing and maintaining accurate maps and data for the transmitters, and maintenance of the transmitters. None of this is impossible, nor particularly difficult, we just haven't reached a point where wide spread adoption of this is valuable enough to the stake holders for it to get any traction. I expect it is coming, and it has been demonstrated by Google already, but it will be a while before it is deployed on any scale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Screen courtain.
My apologies for such a newbee question, but I just want to make sure that I fully understand the functionality of screen courtain. I only just realized what might be happening with this feature. I had turned the brightness way down on my screen, and had probably engaged screen courtain at some point. When I was attempting to show my wife some pictures, she said she couldn't see anything, so I turned up the brightness. She still couldn't see anything. She said the screen was black, so I did the three finger triple tap to turn off the screen courtain, and all was happy. So, my question is, should I just leave brightness at a high setting so the screen is easily read by a sighted person when screen courtain is off, and just keep the screen courtain on whenever I am using the phone? I had always assumed that the courtain was dynamic and was only on when the phone was locked. Since it seems to be a persistent thing, then there doesn't seem to be a need for me to keep brightness turned down. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Two-finger double-tap, not BARD related.
OK thanks. I am 100% positive that I had been able to do the double tap on the lock screen to pause and play. I had actually been experimenting with that to try and explain it to someone who was saying they couldn't do that. While I was experimenting, my battery was getting low, so I plugged it into my computer. At some point, the phone seemed to have locked and I couldn't revive it. I just waited as I was doing a few other things. Eventually, it started talking again. Then I was surprised as I knew that someone had sent me a text, but I hadn't received it, so I rebooted the phone. At that point, more experimentation showed that double tapping on the lock screen no longer worked. However, it wasn not an audible app update that broke it as while playing around with the phone, I noticed that I had one update available, and it was for the audible app. Which I proceeded to download. Now, I have figured out the control center thingee, but found that, at least with the audible app, I have to actually flick to the pause button to pause it. The two finger double tap does not appear to work. It does, as long as the app is open, and the screen is unlocked. Oh well, it was good for the short time it lasted. I think I had heard that there was a security problem with apps that you can use from the lock screen, so possibly they plugged some hole that broke this particular functionality. Thanks guys. Learning a lot in a short period of time, but obviously have a lot more to learn. On 10/19/13, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote: Correct, when in the lock screen, inter the control panel. From there, you can double tap the play button to play what ever was last being played. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 19 Oct 2013, at 16:25, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, the really strange part about that is that it ever worked. I can never remember the two-finger double-tap working on the lock screen, except to end or answer a phone call. Remote buttons work fine, but that gesture has never worked for me unless my phone was unlocked first. On Oct 18, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Dan Rossi danrossi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I am a brand new IPhone user with a spiffy new IPhone 5s running IOS 7.0.2 11A501. Up until today, I was able to pause the playback of an Audible.com book, with a two-finger double-tap, even if the screen was locked. OK, if it was completely locked, I might have to hit the home button, then double tap, but I wouldn't have to unlock the phone first. I was even trying to help someone who was reporting this issue, but thought they were just doing something wrong. Then, all of a sudden, today, after a phone reboot, my phone began the same behavior. I can no longer pause the playback of my book, (an audible.com book), once the phone has locked. I must unlock the phone, then do the two-finger double tap. Again, this was not the case for the last two weeks, but just started happening today. Am I missing something or has there been a change? Speaking of which, I couldn't seem to find anywhere that tells me the last time the OS updated. I can see the version, but didn't see a date / timestamp anywhere. Thanks much. Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https
Two-finger double-tap, not BARD related.
Hi folks, I am a brand new IPhone user with a spiffy new IPhone 5s running IOS 7.0.2 11A501. Up until today, I was able to pause the playback of an Audible.com book, with a two-finger double-tap, even if the screen was locked. OK, if it was completely locked, I might have to hit the home button, then double tap, but I wouldn't have to unlock the phone first. I was even trying to help someone who was reporting this issue, but thought they were just doing something wrong. Then, all of a sudden, today, after a phone reboot, my phone began the same behavior. I can no longer pause the playback of my book, (an audible.com book), once the phone has locked. I must unlock the phone, then do the two-finger double tap. Again, this was not the case for the last two weeks, but just started happening today. Am I missing something or has there been a change? Speaking of which, I couldn't seem to find anywhere that tells me the last time the OS updated. I can see the version, but didn't see a date / timestamp anywhere. Thanks much. Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
