Please keep me posted, on or off list. I'm really getting keen ... but not quite ready to jump yet! <Smiles>
-- Carol carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Twitter: http://twitter.com/songbird49a ---- Original Message ---- From: "john gallagher" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 5:19 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: iphone as a braille display and a speech difficulty
hi carol well must get time to check this but when doing an email or putting in a contact or reading anything in braille will be a help. what i must try is to see if i can use the ability to type things in from the apex as it is quite difficult with the iphone keyboard. will let you know how i get on. ----- source message ----- from: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> date: 2010/06/28 08:30:16 subject: [access-uk] Re: iphone as a braille display and a speech difficultyWow John, this is really good news. So tell me exactly how this assists, I mean, when navigating on screens, rather than just reading text. -- Carol carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Twitter: http://twitter.com/songbird49a ---- Original Message ---- From: "john gallagher" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:41 AM Subject: [access-uk] iphone as a braille display and a speech difficulty > hi sorry to reply this way but using the braille sense > plus. i am so pleased to say i can connect my apex to > the iphone as a braille display. did not think this > would > work but it does. i cannot seem to do it with the > sense though. now to my other difficulty. i have a new > 64 bit laptop an hp pavilion dv 7 3105 ae or something > like. > this machine arrived last friday and i am waiting for > my window eyes disk for it. you need a diferent window > eyes > disk with the 64 bit windows 7 machine. i have system > access on my netbook so if i get sighted help i could > use > the new machine if it can be connected to my router. > but wonder if i can use system acces by downloading it > on to > the new machine until my window eyes disk comes to me. > now how good is the narator on windows 7 would that get > me along until window eyes. now my last one here sorry > about the long email is. i had a big difficulty that i > could not download the most up to date iphone > software. i > got a message. internet time out. wh at i did to > resolve > this problem was to disable nod 32. not surely > somewhere > in nod 32 there must be a way to set a rule about > itunes. > any help will be truly apreciated. many thanks. > > ----- source message ----- > from: "Jackie Cairns" > <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > to: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > date: 2010/06/27 09:25:26 > subject: [access-uk] Re: Freezer alarms > >ar >ar >ar Hi Derek >ar >ar Many moons ago, there used to be something you could >ar purchase from RNIB called Freeze Alert. You tied it >to >ar the inside of your freezer, say on a shelf or >something, >ar and it certainly bleeped if you left the door open >when >ar it detected an increase in temperature. It was >pretty >ar loud and aggravating when you were packing shopping >ar away, for example, but it was a useful gadget. I >don't >ar think such a device exists any more from RNIB though. >ar >ar Similarly, there used to be a Rain Alert device from >ar RNIB that you hooked up to a sill with an outdoor >ar sensor. I found this a brilliant gadget for >alerting me >ar to rain if my son was playing outside as a child as >he >ar liked playing in the rain if he got the opportunity, >ar (smile). It was really useful for knowing when to >bring >ar in the washing too. I wish we could have this gadget >ar back again! I remember that the window-cleaner who >did >ar his round at that time used to tease the life out of >the >ar Rain Alert by splashing it so that I'd go outside to >ar find out what the weather was up to. >ar >ar >ar Kind Regards, >ar >ar Jackie Cairns >ar J&M Work-Ability >ar >ar jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >ar www.work-ability.co.uk >ar -----Original Message----- >ar From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >ar [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Derek >ar Hornby >ar Sent: 26 June 2010 23:20 >ar To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >ar Subject: [access-uk] Freezer alarms >ar >ar Hi all >ar Does anyone know if there is such product that >would >ar Alert one if say the freezer went off. >ar >ar I was thinking it might work like this. >ar Plug the alarm into wall socket, and the freezer >into >ar the Alarm. 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