Hi Grant,
This sounds interesting if it works well, but I am also not quite prepared to
shell out $40 Canadian (I assume it's $29.99 in the US) for a new app which
nobody seems to have ever heard about. I also wonder about the following item
in the feature explanation:
Hold the device flat (wi
Hi Debbie,
Yes, you can change your credit card number on your iPhone 5S very easily, here
is how:
1. Open the App Store
2. Make sure the “Featured” tab at the bottom left is selected
3. Again make sure focus is on that tab, then swipe left twice which
should put you on “Ap
Hi Kerri,
As Richard said, you can select a song of your choice as your alarm sound. I
assume most people will wake up in the time it takes for an entire song to play
at which point you can turn on any music you like.
If you ever contemplate to invest in a Sonos Player or players, Sonos can wak
I think there is some tention going on these days between google and seeri!
On 6/8/16, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
> I just asked SIRI exactly what Ed said and received this answer:
>
> Sorry, I can’t play song charts by genre, but I can find top songs from a
> year or I can create a country radio st
I'm not sure if it's 100% accurate, but I've been using the following
third-party application:
Battery Life: check internal battery statistics by Robert Tkotzyk
https://appsto.re/ca/zeBBab.i
I hope this is of some use.
Grant
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Dr. Harshit Jaithwar
Hi friends, like mac, is there any way to check, how many cycles of my
phones battery has completed or remaining from it's purchase?
Normally got to know there are 300-500 cycles when battery is supposed to
perform at it's best, so thought to check how many cycles have been
completed or remaining
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the advice on the iblink app. I was not aware this app existed for
the fourth generation Apple TV. I spent the evening enjoying Mushroom radio as
well as several podcasts, blindy TV, and other entertainment sources I was
surprised to see readily available on my TV. Thank
I have just done that and speaking as clearly as I could, I asked Siri to:
"Search Google for the spelling of the New Zealand town Kaiteretere"
[pronounced Kie Terry Terry].
what returned was "Cannot find a New Zealand town called can I titty titty" so
I tried again adding,
this time, that it w
oOTunes will do it.
Sent from my Verizon iPhone SE
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 9:13 PM, Richard Turner
> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know about apps that would play a station, but in the iPhone Alarm
> sound selection, you have near the top, "pick a song" where you can pick any
> song on your device.
>
Hi all,
Wondering if anybody has tried this app, which apparently provides real-time
OCR using the FineReader engine. I have not purchased it as I would rather wait
to hear a few users’ reviews first.
Amedia Live Reader by Amedia Corporation
https://appsto.re/ca/YCPa-.i
Thanks!
Grant
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If you use a Mac and you’ve enabled iCloud Photo Library, you can assign
descriptions to photos in the Photos App on your Mac. These will be reflected
when browsing pictures on your iPhone. I’m not aware of any other way to do
this using the native photos library.
Grant
> On Monday May 30, 201
Hi all,
I need to make changes to my credit card information; can I do this from my
5S or do I have to go through Itunes?
Thanks!
Debbie
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I personally don't think there's anything to worry about here. If a
personal assistant makes something easier for you then that just means
you have more time to work on another skill. The same argument can be
made for any piece of technology, any tool or any time saving machine.
On 07/06/16 11
Although all of the browsers use the same underlying engine, performance
can still differ quite a bit. Here's a web page where you'll see that
Firefox compares favorably with Safari, while Chrome and Opera lag a bit
behind:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/and-the-best-web-browser-for-the-iphone-is
I don't know about apps that would play a station, but in the iPhone Alarm
sound selection, you have near the top, "pick a song" where you can pick any
song on your device.
HTH,
Richard
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty
sure they're going to have s
Actually, on I O S, firefox uses the safari engine to display web pages, so the
pages will read the same way they do in safari, therefore, while it's good that
firefox is accessible, I'm not sure if there is really any benefit to using it
over safari.
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Mary Otten wr
Hi Everyone:
Instead of the Iphone default ringtone for my alarm, I think I need
the alarm to be top 40 music to wake me up.
Is there an app or something where I could set it to wake me up with a
top 40 station?
Is there any way to set the Iphone alarm to play the Top Pop station
in Apple music ins
Hi Tom,
What you are doing is simply applying a custom label to the file name and that
of course is only valid with Voiceover. You can’t rename picture files unless
of course you save them to your PC and do it there with the help of a sighted
person.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:vip
Hello everyone,
I was wondering, have any of you tried to use the application, offer up?
I installed it about a month ago, and found it very inaccessible. I was
wondering, is there a work around, to make this application more accessible?
If not, is there a craigslist application that is completel
I wasn't aware that Firefox was accessible for the iPhone. I know on platforms
like windows, there is a reader that makes it like the safari reader. Is that
feature available on the iPhone version? I really like the safari reader. I
wouldn't be willing to give that up.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the tip. I've successfully assigned labels to several pictures in my
camera roll. While this method is certainly useful for helping me keep track
of which photo is which, I should point out that it doesn't actually rename
the file itself, as I discovered when I e-mailed
Hi all,
I just thought I'd mention how much I'm enjoying the FireFox browser on the
iPhone. It appears very straightforward and I particularly like that it's
easier and more consistent when it comes to closing opened pages:
If anyone hasn't given it a look, I'd recommend you may wish to do so.
Hello all,
Yesterday, I created an account with the ifttt (If this then that)
website on the computer and attempted to download their app for iOs.
After downloading it and opening the app, I tapped on the sign in
button which asked for my user name or email. I double tapped on the
text field to att
I just asked SIRI exactly what Ed said and received this answer:
Sorry, I can’t play song charts by genre, but I can find top songs from a year
or I can create a country radio station for you.
I am wondering why SIRI doesn’t know the top song from a particular genre as
this information should b
Hi Ed,
It works, except you can’t get it to play the number 1 song for that year, and
it does not play charts by genre. Try saying “Play the number 1 song from June
1972”
That will play “Oh Girl” by The Chi-Lites.
I’m sure this is not what you wanted.
You can have Siri create a classic country st
Hi Everyone,
I thought I read on this group one time that you could asked Siri "What is
the number one country song in 1972" and Siri would play it. I have not been
able to get my 6s plus to do that. So does anyone know if this workds or
not?
Ed
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Yes and I hope to tune into the presentation on my Apple TV 3rd generation as
it will be days after my possible new line installation at my apartment.
> On 6 Jun 2016, at 22:12, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
>
> Next Monday, Apple’s Worldwide developers conference begins with a big
> reveal. We’ll find
Hell with the notion of dependency in regard to phones. I think the beauty of
the iPhone is its versatility. I don't think any of us are so rigid that we're
stuck on one way of operating our phones or at least that's not the impression
I get.
Deidre
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Krister Ekst
Hi,
One more thing to add to this, if you don’t know your phone thoroughly you
can’t fix things when/if they go wrong. I have always thought and been accused
of thinking wrongly that before you can make an informed decision on what input
method to choose, you must know them all. Some like the bu
I am probably going to be unpopular when I say this but...
Are we wanting to depend too much on the personal assistants these days. It
seems that some want them to do everything for them instead of keeping our
skills up by doing some things on our own? I am happy to use dictation when
I want to
Yes, so do I, or I will have a lots to do! :-) Thanks again!
On 7 Jun 2016, at 15:04, Richard Turner wrote:
I’ve only renamed them in the camera roll or photos app and they have never
left as I’ve updated iOS.
If you are labeling pictures in another app, I don’t know. I hope they stick.
Hap
Jonathan, very, very interested. Can I go to mushroom and stream on my mobile
device?
reggie & Lex
On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
Next Monday, Apple’s Worldwide developers conference begins with a big reveal.
We’ll find out about many of the key new features in iOS 10, th
Hello Sieghard
Thanks much for making the instructions easier. I did get to the instruction
page but I could not figure out exactly what they want me to do. With your
changes I new what to do and it worked perfectly.
I wish I had your vast knowledge base, so thanks for always helping me out.
Rega
I’ve only renamed them in the camera roll or photos app and they have never
left as I’ve updated iOS.
If you are labeling pictures in another app, I don’t know. I hope they stick.
Happy labelling,
Richard
From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]
Sent: T
, Yes, that is definitely easier. I suppose I also don't like Safari much. You
know what, I'm not always so negative!
Deidre
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>
> All you have to do to get SIRI to bring up google results instead of Bing
> results is say "Search Google fo
KNFB Reader is primarily for extracting text from a picture of a document. It
has a built-in feature to "add page to document" so you can compile many pages
into one document. I know of no way to piece all that back together unless you
first export the text from each one and then use a word pr
All you have to do to get SIRI to bring up google results instead of Bing
results is say "Search Google for" followed by what you want to search for.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Deidre Muccio
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Hi Fanus,
Googling “How to fix a -45054 error in the iTunes Store” brought up an Apple
support article with the following instructions (I modified this a bit to
hopefully make it easier to follow when it comes to how you get to the
“ProgramData folder etc.:
If files or folders that iTunes uses
One of my friends is struggling to export the images from iPhone to
his computer. He is saying, the images are not opening in his
computer, because knfb reader is saving the images in special format,
and not in jpeg format. So whether is it possible to save the images
in JPEG format or extract the
As I understand it, in iOS 10, Siri gets greatly improved and you should be
able to talk to her just like talking to a neighbor or friend. Personally, I'm
just waiting to see that for myself. I do know this though. Sooner or later
it will happen.
Alan
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> On Jun 6, 2016
Richard, I had forgotten about that one so, well done to you! I'm interested to
know whether these labels stay or if they get taken out if you install new
software for anything! I look forward to hearing of your experience. Meantime,
I am happily labeling photos! :-)
Thank you again !
On 3 Jun
I was away from my computer, so I could not respond earlier. You guys were
right, I found System Services right where you said it was.
I appreciate the help. Now I'm on the same page as the rest of you.
Thanks again to all of you.
Gary
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com
Now that you mention it, that is always at the top of my results Bing. I have
downloaded Google so maybe I'll try that and see if I get better results.
Deidre
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 6:42 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>
> Last I knew, Apple used Bing, but there was talk they were looking into
Finally you guys have answered my question! Choke on a secondhand whisker?
That's funny.
Deidre
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 4:07 AM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone
> wrote:
>
> Google is quite good at isolating phonymns rather than spellings, and does a
> good line in context quite often. This as distinct
Hi there.
Truthfully I used to be a big navigon fan but I would not recommend it
at all anymore.
I used it a couple of weeks ago and it never alerted me when I was at
my destination which it was always the best at doing.
It didn't display street names anymore in some cases as it used to
Last I knew, Apple used Bing, but there was talk they were looking into
their own search engine.
On 07/06/16 02:58, 'RobH.' via VIPhone wrote:
I'm not sure if Apple have their own search engine servers, I thought siri
might just submit any search term to the big boys like
google, then filter t
Hello Jonathan
I was just wondering, while internet streaming is so expensive here in South
Africa, do you perhaps intend to make your show available as a podcast which we
can download sometime after the show?
Regards
Fanus
From: Jonathan Mosen
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 11:12 PM
To: 'Carol Pe
Hello list
I want to purchase music via itunes and when I enter on the amount I get this
-45054 error. I never encountered this before so I do not have a clue what its
all about. Can someone please help?
Regards
Fanus
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I live in Chicago. I think I’ll get the north America version.
Thanks.
Robbie
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 9:25 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: which navigon app
It depends i
3 more thoughts:
Recording: remember that the camera is recording as soon as you press that
button, hwile you are putting it on the mount and you
are getting into position; so having got there, count yourselfin 4.3.2.1.Go!,
pause for 2 beats, opening greeting, opening remarks
to say what yo
A further thought:
To address audience in the right manner, think of someone you like, respect,
absolutely non-gender, so make this person someone
from childhood maybe, but not parent as this will put the level of
communication on the wrong plane. When you find someone you can
talk to free
Hi!
Not sure at the moment since I'm not using POP3 protocol but maybe
the easiest way would be to delete and create the desired account
from scratch.
If you are not comfortable with that try to explore advanced
sections of your account setup in Mail, Contacts, Calend
My first thoughts:
Be sure to grasp the concept of viewing angle ( which is essentially conicle
fanning out from the camera lense), so you know how
wide it is at how far; so you can be sure you have all you need to show, fully
in the angle of view.
Make sure you're always fully aware of wher
Google is quite good at isolating phonymns rather than spellings, and does a
good line in context quite often. This as distinct
from trying to reverse-TTS (STT) to reproduce a written phrase,... whichit
probably then submits to the search engines. Even
Google would choke on a second-hand ch
Geeze!... tell us about it; dictation is so good,... hwenit works, and so
less when it gets confused.
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From: "Jewel"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: Siri, YouTube
I have to disagree, in that, Siri doesn't write exactly what you
I'm not sure if Apple have their own search engine servers, I thought siri
might just submit any search term to the big boys like
google, then filter the responses before sending it you back. Global web
crawling is not really Apple's thing, so a bit of an error
if they have one dedicated for s
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