Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-12 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover The problem with the internet isn't typing specifically, it's just the hole way Vo seems to handle webpages, the way they're layed out, the fact it does weerd things with images and combo boxes and such. For example, when I looked

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-12 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover well, i am not saying that I use web on iPhone regularly, but it is a very good option if you're on the go. But it is not a good alternative only when you do not have a pc with you, the only problem  I face is typing. However, I use

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I've been using a computer for far too long now, so long that writing in braille feels clunky and slow.  I haven't brailled a document since roughly 15 years ago.  For me, I imagine, it would be twice as hard because on top of having

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Dark,I do not find voiceover's behaviour on internet very odd. I  placed the headings in the roter and they activate automatically when i open an internet website. I just browse through the headings by flicking up and down, and then when

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Dark,I do not find voiceover's behaviour on internet very odd. I  placed the headings in the roter and they activate automatically when i open an internet website. I just browse through the headings by flicking up and down, and then when

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-11 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Afrim, funny you mention internet on the Iphone and e-mail. The problem I find with e-mail is I rarely have my bleutooth keyboard with me, so don'twant to manage my e-mail on my Iphone even though it is setup, I'd rather check it every day

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Well, if you buy an iPhone 6+ or 6S+, you are buying a prototype of the iPad. The advantage of the iPhone 6+ is that the battery lasts longer and it offers you the possibility to use a sim card, although some iPads offer it too.If the apple

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-10 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I personally am totally on board with the idea of the watch as an extention of the phone and nothing more. yes, an expensive extention, but still one which I can see having uses as I said (my brother is very fond of his). Bringing up

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @afrim,That's more or less what I've been saying for awhile now.  IN some senses there is functionality that is slightly different from what you would expect of the iPhone.  The clock face on the Apple watch presents much more information

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Yo,To be honest, I don't know why would I buy three devices which perform nearly the same tasks. You can do on your iPad anything (if not everything) that you are able to do on your iPhone. Also, I'm not really informed about the iPod touch

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Yo,To be honest, I don't know why would I buy three devices which perform nearly the same tasks. You can do on your iPad anything (if not everything) that you are able to do on your iPhone. Also, I'm not really informed about the iPod touch

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Nocturnus: you're right about one thing, anyway--I am about to sell the one remaining iPod Touch I have. It's the tedium of keeping it synchronised to my iPhone, you see. It's a great device, but maintaining it while getting little use out

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Sebby,I don't know; I was always under the assumption that the iPod, whatever incarnation of it, was really a glorified media consumption device.  I never owned one myself, which is part of the reason I overlooked it, and the only time I

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Nocturnus: It is very similar to iPad, yeah, but there were two things I think the iPad had going for it where the watch struggles to find similar footing: first it really was bigger, which meant that people who appreciated browsing

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Sebby,Isn't this more or less the same approach we kind of sort of somewhat took back in o9 when the iPad was released?  Yay, Apple, you gave us an iPhone again, but without the phone!  And it's bigger!  And it's cute!  I imagine

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Nocturnus: Well, good! Glad you're enjoying it. That's the idea. Nobody says you can't do that, at least. Sounds like you're in for a treat. As to extension vs solo in Apple Watch, the thinking goes something like this: why do you want

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Nocturnus: Well, good! Glad you're enjoying it. That's the idea. Nobody says you can't do that, at least. Sounds like you're in for a treat. As to extension vs solo in Apple Watch, the thinking goes something like this: why do you want

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I agree with nocturnus here. I wouldn't even consider a smart watch if it weren't! an accessery to my Iphone, it's as an extention of the Iphone usability that I see the advantage. As to portability, my issue is that when I'm out

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover And that's what I've got, a sport model.  As for using two hands with it?  I suppose that all depends on the person in question.  I somewhat have to, I suppose, being blind and partly deaf, or at least until I can find a set of bluetooth

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Dark: try listening to and making sense of this podcast.@Figment: Nah, I really found using a device is much easier when it's stuck to your hand (you can configure it for either hand, and decide which way the crown faces). I'm a cane user

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I agree with post 16. As it currently stands, the watch is a very expensive accessory that works with your iPhone and *only* with your iPhone. Do I think it has use cases? I certainly do. Do I think it could potentially get better

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Chris via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I agree with post 16. As it currently stands, the watch is a very expensive accessory that works with your iPhone and *only* with your iPhone. Do I think it has use cases? I certainly do. Do I think it could potentially get better

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : severestormsteve1 via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover My only comment to this, as I have neither a loving wife or an Apple Watch is... yea! I'm not the only Dwarpher... @post 8. LOL URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=253118#p253118

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Figment via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Why does a guide dog matter, whether you Use a guide dog makes no difference. You have one hand occupied with holding the dog's harness or holding a white cane, either way you have one hand occupied, you still have the other hand to reach

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Dark,Bla at whoever told you you and your future wife are nauseating... I believe there needs to be a little more love in the world.  :dThe Apple watch is connected via a secure bluetooth connection to your iPhone.  The connection is so

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Figment, that makes sense, however bare in mind that portability makes a lot of difference when you have a guide dog, also I'm waiting for the point that games and such use it, imagine for example that in audio defense zombie arena you

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @nocturnus: oh yes, there's no disputing that Apple are committed to accessibility, for whatever reason, and Apple Watch is now the only truly accessible smart wearable, and has been since the day it was unveiled. Accessibility is now quite

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-08 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Figment,Is price the issue, or would you be willing to pay said price over a span of time?  If the latter is true, you can more than likely get yourself an  Apple watch through a phone service provider like T-mobile over the course of time

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Hmmm Nocturnus, I beg to differ on your liust sinse while the all but legally notified mrs. dark doesn't do ebay she does many other pretty major important things that any relationship should have including: 1: Can conduct entire

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Figment via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I'm sorry but I fail to see why I should spend three to four hhundred dollars for a device to put on my wrist that is nothing more than an alternate user interface for other Apple devices so that I don't have to take them out of my pocket

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Sebby,I probably wouldn't have gotten it for myself either, And I suppose that if I were a different kind of husband, all be it I'm not sure which kind, perhaps ungreatful?  I'd probably be on my wife's case for not havinggotten me

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I don't have a wife, loving or otherwise. I had to buy my Apple Watch for myself. It's OK though, because according to Arnold J. Rimmer, love is only a device invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn. Seems to me that if you're going

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I don't have a wife, loving or otherwise. I had to buy my Apple Watch for myself. It's OK though, because according to Arnold J. Rimmer, love is only a device invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn. Seems to me that if you're going

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I don't have a wife, loving or otherwise. I had to buy my Apple Watch for myself. It's OK though, because according to Arnold J. Rimmer, love is only a device invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn. Seems to me that if you're going

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-07 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover @Dark and afrim,The Apple watch is only part of it; your wife must also be willing to do the following:A.  Know how to navigate the depths of eBay so as to save you both money by getting great deals on your presents.B.  Not be able

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Yes Afrim that is wise, you don't want to end up like me, all engaged with a loving and wonderful wife and no! apple watch do you? That would be quite a disaster! . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=252879#p252879

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Well, I'm taking it very seriously. I'm too young to mary right now, but I am about to write a letter of do's and donts for the wife I will marry in the future. From the big list of my requirements, one will surely be a gift requirement

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-06 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover Hmmm, so I assume from this that the definition of a loving wife is one who shows her feelings via the gift of an Apple watch? - aagh! my wife doesn't love me! that's it, the weddings off, it's dmed! dooomed! Thank you

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover hahaha!  Well, be careful what you wish for; you could have an unloving wife, then you wouldn't get anything!  I mean, an unloving wife is still a wife, you know?  :dActually, I think she's outdoing herself right now because she feels like

Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : afrim via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I wish I had a wife!Not because I love to have someone whom I cherish and feel that she is my life, neither because I want to be married, Nor because I should gradually try to get rid of the idea of not being single forever, but because I

Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover

2016-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Nocturnus via Audiogames-reflector
Thank you Apple: my wrist just got a makeover I bought an iPhone to replace my less than satisfying Android phone IN late December, doubled down and purchased a Mac mini in a fit of rage during the month of Janruary after MS... Welll, continued to be MS, really, and have now been gifted