[access-uk] Re: Two colour identifier apps get the thumbs down!
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:28:38 -0000
Carol, unless you really want a good laugh - because that's about all you'll
get - forget them. If they were colours the damned things were trying to
identify, we'd never heard of them, but it was really very funny all the
same.
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
Carol Pearson
Sent: 16 March 2011 14:51
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Two colour identifier apps get the thumbs down!
Sorry they weren't helpful, Jackie, but thanks for giving them a go.
I think I'll steer clear ...
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Carol P
---- Original Message ----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:22 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Two colour identifier apps get the thumbs down!
> Following some info I received a day or two ago, I tried two colour
> identifiers from the App Store which someone on another list thought
> were very good value for nothing.
> They were ColourFinder, and Color ID. In actual fact, while they work
> in real time with the phone's camera, they were crap. It was
> absolutely hysterical to just point the phone at my lilac jumper, blue
> jeans, or Martin's silver grey sweat-shirt or black trousers, and have
> an American voice go through all sorts of permutations of what it
> thought it was recognising. At one point, it told Martin something he
> was wearing was a martini colour, and he cracked me up by saying it
> was trying to guess his name rather than the colour of his
> clothes.
>
> Great for a complete laugh, but certainly no way worth cluttering up
> your device, so I removed them, and am glad they were freebees. If
> you get a bit of free time, or want a laugh, some of those apps really
> do take the biscuit, and it proves there is junk out there as well as
> some really useful stuff. The only thing I would say about these two
> apps was that it was clever how the camera of your phone just took off
> when you opened either app, and tried recognising your colours live as
> you moved it about. I wish there was a really good one that could do
> that. But these two? Definitely no no no!! (smile).
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jackie Cairns
> J&M Work-Ability
>
> jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.work-ability.co.uk
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