iBookstore. There is no print copy of
Talking to Siri distributed, as far as I know.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Michael Busboom wrote:
This is helpful information indeed, Zack. My only concern thus far is that
to date, I keep hearing from English-speaking iPhone
use
of the Siri capitalization commands. These can be found, among other places,
in any good book on using Siri. A Google search should also turn up this
information.
Hope this helps,
Zack.
On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hi,
Now that I have the iPhone 4S, I am
found out
lol
Glad its all working again for you my friend!
-Original Message-
From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom
Sent: 06 February 2012 16:11
To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility
Subject: Re: Using the iPhone
Hello Ian, Zack, Geoff and Esther,
It works! Per your suggestions, I just announced the punctuation marks as I
went, and it worked perfectly. Then, I switched my keyboard to German, spoke
German (including punctuation marks) and Siri performed flawlessly. The only
downside, when I switched
which contain bits of inaccessible graphical multimedia.
Hope this helps,
Zack.
On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello Esther,
Firstly, I would like to thank you for responding, and the same goes for
everyone else who has taken the time to assist me.
In your response
Hello everyone,
Last Friday, I purchased an unlocked iPhone 4S with 64 GB of RAM, and I am
ecstatic. I am having one issue, however, and I'd really appreciate some
thoughts.
At present, I can only use VO with earphones. As soon as I remove the
earphones, I don't hear a thing. The only
Hello Ian,
I am greatly relieved to report that the problem has been solved. Though your
diagnosis was incorrect, it got me to thinking, and I resolved the problem in a
pretty non-spectacular way.
First of all, I went to the Sounds entry in settings and determined that my
sound volume was at
Greetings,
One Bible app that I have is called Youversion. It seems to be okay, but I'd
like something that would be a little easier to use. Nevertheless, it is
accessible and at least one blind person that I know of really loves it. It's
a question of personal taste, should think..
Kind
Hi,
Now that I have the iPhone 4S, I am starting to experiment with Siri. I was
wondering if there was a way to get Siri to use proper punctuation in
sentences. Is it possible,for example, to tell Siri to insert punctuation
marks in sentences? How can one get Siri to handle acronyms
Hello all,
I have an Aluminum Macbook from late 2008 with 4GB/Ram and a 2.4GHZ processor.
I assume, but am not 100% sure that this is a 64-bit machine. I couldn't
ascertain this when I went into the About This Mac option.
I have a USB data stick for accessing the Internet during my upcoming
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I learned about an app from Geoff Waaler, and I wanted to install it
on my iPhone. The app to which I am referring is called Find My Friends.
When I went to the link that Geoff provided, I was told that I couldn't
download it because I was not authorized to
. Both AroundMe and Where
To work internationally, and also support other language localizations.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 30, 2012, Michael Busboom wrote:
Wonderfully instructive and helpful, Geoff, thanks!
I think I will have to get a 4S with 64GB if I start downloading maps
Greetings,
I will soon acquire an iPhone 4S and had a couple of questions about GPS
solutions.
1. Although I know of Sendero Look-Around, I am wondering if there is an app
that works with something like Google Maps. It would really be even better if
one could get turn-by-turn instructions.
,
it has maps for , the U.S, Canada, Europe and I think Australia, but don't
hold me to the later.
Hope this helps,
Justin
On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Greetings,
I will soon acquire an iPhone 4S and had a couple of questions about GPS
solutions.
1. Although I
, but don't
hold me to the later.
Hope this helps,
Justin
On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Greetings,
I will soon acquire an iPhone 4S and had a couple of questions about GPS
solutions.
1. Although I know of Sendero Look-Around, I am wondering if there is an
app
for two years.
I suspect one major advantage of Motionx in your case is that unlike Navigon,
you would not need to purchase two apps in order to use it in both Europe and
NorthAmerica.
Best regards.
Geoff
- Original Message -
From: Michael Busboom
To: Mac OSX iOS
Hello Geoff,
As you know, I have two MJ accounts, one is the Magic Jack Plus, and the other
is the older, traditional account where you plug a device into the USB port of
your Mac or PC. Do you know if the MJ app for the iPhone would allow me to use
one of these two accounts, or would I have
keep a TextEdit window open to paste in the URLs and to change en to
de, and then to find the corresponding text on each page to copy.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 4, 2011, at 06:04, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have been asked to translate a rather lengthy article about
Hello everyone,
I have been asked to translate a rather lengthy article about the iPhone and
VoiceOver from German into English. Though I am looking forward to translating
the article, I was wondering if there was an RTF version of the IOS5 VoiceOver
manual that I could output to a Braille
.
Good luck, Sandy.
Sent from my iPhone
On 22 Nov 2011, at 18:48, Michael Busboom m...@busboom.at wrote:
Greetings from Austria,
I am wondering how to read RSS content offline. Here's my situation:
Since I have a guide dog, I spend a lot of time in the dog park in order to
let my dog
Hello Lynne,
The way I accomplish this is to press and briefly hold the Home Key one time
which gets me back to the Home Screen, unless I am already there. Mind you,
I don't know what Apple calls this screen, but it is the screen where your apps
are displayed. Then, I quickly press the Home
of the podcast describes using the web rotor to move your insertion
point by characters and words, and what VoiceOver announces.
Michael Busboom wrote:
MB: 1. How can a document that is currently being written checked for
errors? In other words, must one somehow leave the keyboard app in order
Hello everyone,
I am having some difficulties entering data into my iPhone 4 under OS5.
Although I was able to glean a little information from the Vision Australia
podcast on Read2go, I am still struggling. Here are my questions:
1. How can a document that is currently being written checked
:45, Red.Falcon wrote:
Hi Michael!
I'm sorry I've no knowledge of that stuff! :]
Never use it!
Colin
On 7 Nov 2011, at 19:09, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello Colin,
I would like to be able to read all of the documentation to which you
referred on my Victor Reader Stream. Do you per
Hello everyone,
I have recently acquired an iPhone 4 with iOS5. I am wondering where I can
obtain documentation on how to use the phone with VoiceOver. There are lots of
gestures and probably a lot of tricks one can employ to maximize usage of the
phone. I would be grateful if someone could
Hey Geoff,
You might not believe this, but I actually do support a lot of Chicago sports
teams. For instance, I follow the Bears, the Bulls and the Blackhawks. I am
seriously considering giving my allegiance to the Southsiders, but that
decision is still on hold. To my way of thinking, it
Hello Kevin or anyone else,
I haven't been following the Google accessibility threads at all because I
didn't figure I would need to use any of the Google apps. However, I heard
that the Google browser worked with BlackBoard, and if this is true, this is
very important for me. Could someone
you'll find them. If not let us know.
Onh hang on, I think ReadHear is at http://www.gh-accessibility.com but I
can't off hand remember the URL for Oleria.
Lynne
Lynne
On 22 Sep 2011, at 18:44, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
I frequently need to read material
Hello everyone,
Ever since installing Lion, I hear the phrase com.apple.dock.extra as soon as
Lion is up and running and Voice Over is talking.
Can someone shed some light on what is going on, please? My computer is
running fine.
Best regards,
Mike
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Hi there,
I would very much like to purchase Take Control of Spotlight from you.
I remember that we pay via Paypal. Please let me know how to proceed.
With best regards from Austria,
Mike
On 16,Sep,2011, at 9:07 PM, Gordon Lynne Smith wrote:
Hello everybody; especially our Take Control
The subject says it all. I meant for my Take Control of Spotlight to be a
private posting.
Please accept my apologies.
Mike
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Hello everyone,
I took the plunge and recently purchased Dragon Dictate version 2.5 for the
Mac, German and English. Although the German customer service person was quite
knowledgeable and eager to help, she did not know whether or not it would be
possible to train Dragon Dictate (I think
,2011, at 10:23 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
did you check under utilities? If not go to finder and hit cmd shift u to
get there quickly.
Take care and good luck.
On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
Since I recently added several new contacts to my Nokia
Hello everyone,
For a lot of health-related reasons that I won't go into, I need to slowly
explore alternatives to keyboard input. My thinking is that I would use Nuance
products; a recommendation for what to order would be needed. I would also
like to use my BrailleNote Apex for Braille
of this sad state.
Mike
On 25,Aug,2011, at 7:12 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
You have to stop interacting and reinstaract with the text after you enter
it. then and only then can you edit and make sure it's right.
Good luck.
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
I
ago I took that challenge and I'm dead certain that menu interfaces in phones
since the days of my N70 have radically changed.
On 25/08/2011, at 4:52 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello Colin,
I find your note both encouraging, insofar as I wasn't doing anything wrong.
As frustrating
Colin
On 25 Aug 2011, at 11:09, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello Dane,
That's not the issue. I had no problem importing my cell phone contacts.
What I still need to do is manually enter hundreds of addresses that, for
several reasons, cannot be sent to the unit via Bluetooth.
Some
Has anyone had problems downloading foreign language voices in Lion?
Whenever I go into the Voice Over Utility with VO F8 and go to the customize
portion of the dialogue in the Speech/Voices portion, there is a place where
you can click on Customize and receive a list of foreign language
Hello everyone,
I am having several issues with the Address Book running Lion. This is not to
say that these issues didn't exist while running Snow Leopard; I am only now
getting my feet wet, as it were, with Mac's Address Book.
One particularly annoying problem I am having is my inability to
the voices in the list that you want to download, at which
point you will be able to do so. It's been a while since I did this myself,
but the process should be the same as it was when Lion first came out.
Best,
Zack.
On Aug 24, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Has anyone had
something better about this!
hth
Colin
On 24 Aug 2011, at 19:04, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am having several issues with the Address Book running Lion. This is not
to say that these issues didn't exist while running Snow Leopard; I am only
now getting my feet wet
Hello listers,
When I get a chance, I will purchase and install Lion. I am wondering,
however, if the process will be as straightforward for me and other expatriates
as it is for someone who doesn't have his or her residency in a country other
than the one in which the Mac was purchased.
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