hi there yes fine i will let you know how i get on with the sense though this upgrade is like the trains blody slow in coming. cheers. ----- source message ----- from: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> date: 2010/06/27 09:59:25 subject: [access-uk] Re: iphone as a braille display and a speech difficulty > > > Hi John > > Dead interesting about Braille connectivity to your devices. I think the > BrailleSense is a cracking machine, and I think it will be even better wh= > en > the new update is released. I would be interested to know if you get it > talking to your Iphone in the future? > > > Kind Regards, > > Jackie Cairns > J&M Work-Ability > > jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > www.work-ability.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf = > Of > john gallagher > Sent: 27 June 2010 10:42 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 plea= > sed > 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 wind= > ow > 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 download= > ing > it on to the new machine until my window eyes disk comes to me. now how g= > ood > is the narator on windows 7 would that get me along until window eyes. no= > w > my last one here sorry about the long email is. i had a big difficulty th= > at > 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 no= > d > 32. not surely somewhere in nod 32 there must be a way to set a rule abou= > t > itunes. any help will be truly apreciated. many thanks. =20 > > ----- 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 > > > > > > > Hi Derek > >for20 > > Many moons ago, there used to be something you could purchase f=20 > > RNIB called Freeze Alert. You tied it to the inside of your freezerea=20 > > say on a shelf or something, and it certainly bleeped if you left the=20 > > door open when it detected an increase in temperature. It was pretty=20 > > loud and aggravating when you were packing shopping away, for exampleea=20 > > but it was a useful gadget. I don't think such a device exists any mor= > e > from RNIB though. > >for20 > > Similarly, there used to be a Rain Alert device from RNIB that y=20 > > hooked up to a sill with an outdoor sensor. I found this a brilliant=20 > > gadget for alerting me to rain if my son was playing outside as a=20 > > child as he liked playing in the rain if he got the opportunityea=20 > > (smile). It was really useful for knowing when to bring in the=20 > > washing too. I wish we could have this gadget back again! I remember=20 > > that the window-cleaner who did his round at that time used to tease=20 > > the life out of the Rain Alert by splashing it so that I'd go outside t= > o > find out what the weather was up to. > >for20 > >for20 > > Kind Regards, > >for20 > > Jackie Cairns > > J&M Work-Ability > >for20 > > jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > www.work-ability.co.uk > > -----Original Message----- > > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On=20 > > Behalf Of Derek Hornby > > Sent: 26 June 2010 23:20 > > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [access-uk] Freezer alarms > >for20 > > Hi all > > Does anyone know if there is such product that would Alert one if =20 > > say the freezer went off. > >for20 > > I was thinking it might work like this. > > Plug the alarm into wall socket, and the freezer into the Alarm. 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