Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'm going to try it later as I've never been successful with it but this update might help. Kawal. On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at > getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this upd

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
It occurs to me to wonder whether perhaps you might have been trying to scan the blank side of a one-sided page. Just a thought. Oh, I should point out that I too could not find the "page idindification setting either. Surely, you meant "quick capture"? Sent from my mac, the only computer wi

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
How y'all There is an option for Settings. Once you go into settings, there is a button four-page identification. Apparently, that is turned off by default. That needs to be turned on so that voiceover will tell you to go to the left and play little musical tones, and also tell you the word away

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
It's in Prizmo itself and not in the stock settings app. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 15/05/2013 07:08, Les Kriegler wrote: Where is the setting located?

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again I forgot to say that you have to go under text recognition first. Then when you go under text recognition, you will find the button for Detect text identif Orientation. i missaid when I said page identification. Sorry if that created confusion. But it will do what I said. Regards, Gigi

Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again y'all I have some questions about the iPad from a totally blind person's perspective. I have a totally blind friend who is debating the issue of an iPad versus an iPhone. I am leaning toward her getting an iPhone, but she has another totally blind friend who got an iPad and adores it. I

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Alex Hall
Personally, I'd go for the iPhone. If you are going to pay for a data plan, you may as well have accessible texting, contact management, caller ID, missed call information, and so on in addition to the advantages of iOS apps. The iPad does not have as good a camera as the iPhone, but it may work

Re: removing email from server via IOS mail app

2013-05-15 Thread Phil Halton
thanks, I'll watch for lag in email removal. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:03 PM Subject: Re: removing email from server via IOS mail app Hi, It sounds to me that you have your settings set corr

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Les Kriegler
Yes, I was able to locate that button. I thought that might've been what you meant. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi again > I forgot to say that you have to go under text recognition first. Then when > you go under text recognition, you will find the

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Gigi, I think it depends a lot on your friend. How comfortable is she with tech in general? Do you think she would be comfortable on a larger screen? In my opinion, the larger screen has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage of course is that it's more complicated to navigate, e

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, lining up objects with the camera from an iPad is no different than that of an iPhone. The rear facing cameras are located in the same place on both devices. That being said, I think your likely going to get worse OCR results just because the camera isn't as good as the ones found on the

note master and opening attachments

2013-05-15 Thread William Windels
Hello, I should suppose that note master on the iPhone can open both, doc and docx files . However, with doc-files, the application is not coming up when opening a attachment with the doc-extension. Is this really true or a kind of bug/missing feature? kind regards, William Windels -- You re

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Pamela J Francis
Hi What kinds of things does your friend what to do with an iPhone/ipad? If all your friend wants to do is identify money, the iPhone is best. Howevwer, if your friend wants to use the iPad for any kind of productivity, such as composing anything of length, an iPad would serve your friend's need

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
I'm not real sure exactly what she wants to do on the iPhone or the iPad. However, I know that she is interested in TapTapSee. She is also interested in money identification I know. This is why I'm leaning more towards the iPhone. However, she inherited this phone from her dad when he died and s

Re: note master and opening attachments

2013-05-15 Thread William Windels
Hello again, When I open a docx file in note master, it seems I can just read the title of the document. Further , I see some buttons for lists and other buttons but I can't hear the full text of the document. Is this normal or can I change some setting see the text also? kind regards, William W

Re: Can anyone recommend a scanner for scanning books.

2013-05-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Annie, What region are you in? Ebony consulting may be able to help with a hovercam purchase. Write me off list if you're interested. The scan quality of the hovercam is really good. It has a built in flash and an auto focus and a tactile positioning guide. It's also really well built an

Re: usb not visible

2013-05-15 Thread Mark Furness
Yes i have them checked to be seen. I did find out that they will not show up if formatted in "ntfs" MarkOn 2013-05-14, at 4:08 PM, Cait and Maggie wrote: > Do you have usb devices/hard disks, etc, checked as showing up in your finder > preferences? > hth, > Caitlyn > > On 2013-05-14, at 4:00

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
i forgot this as well but only just got the update today smile. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 15/05/2013 13:28, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi again I forgot to s

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, Since she's happy enough with her phone, Have you suggested to her possibly getting an iPod touch? Its more portable, and has all the hardware functionality of an iPad pretty much. It's also cheaper. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecor

RE: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Tommy Craig
Hi Gigi, I think any of the options are very good. The camera in the iphone is a much higher resolution but the Ipad camera is good enough for most things. As for size and price considerations she might look at the Ipad mini. It is definately smaller and easier to deal with than the Ipad. The b

Organizing Notes

2013-05-15 Thread Traci
Hi all, I'm currently using my notes app as a food journal. In some respects, this is working very well for me. It's on my Mac and my iDevices; it also syncs across them all. In other ways, I'm finding some shortcomings for my needs. Any time I go in and edit a note, that changes the time s

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Apple talked her into getting an iPhone. Yes, she is happy with her phone, but she found out that she can get a smart phone for not much more money than what she's been paying this company for that other phone. Therefore, she is just going to check with a couple of other companies like

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Kerri
Does prism work on an iPhone 4? At the risk of sounding cheap, I don't want to utilize something that is going to be inferior on my old phone. On 2013-05-15, at 12:41 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I'm going to try it later as I've never been successful with it but this > update might help. > >

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
I have still not been able to get it to fully work with the update, but it may just be I'm not doing something right. I get the text prompts about orienting the page, and once its right, I press Take Picture. Usually it doesn't do anything or just gives tones, and I'm not sure what the tones mean

Re: Questions about iPad

2013-05-15 Thread Kerri
I think she already does own an iPhone. On 2013-05-15, at 5:43 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > Personally, I'd go for the iPhone. If you are going to pay for a data plan, > you may as well have accessible texting, contact management, caller ID, > missed call information, and so on in addition to the ad

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
When you get the iPhone above what you're scanning, have you been double tapping the screen, being very careful to hold it as level as possible when it says it's detected the page? If it doesn't make that picture taking sound, you haven't done the picture. Regards, Gigi On May 15, 2013, at 4:

using keyboard

2013-05-15 Thread wayne17a
Hi all I did read a some time ago about using a keyboard with the ipad wirelessly so does anybody have the manual on what keys do what and how -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

reading mail. having a problem

2013-05-15 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, Trying to figure out my issue of readingemail. Before, i use to be able to do vo left and right arrow, and it would flip between between who the message was from, the subject, etc. Now itseemsto begging between messages when i do this. Someone had mentioned something about the mail

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
The tones will play until it has a good shot then it will take the picture. The higher the tone the better the chance it can take a shot. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordp

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
It seems to work on my iPhone 4. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 15/05/2013 22:29, Kerri wrote: Does prism work on an iPhone 4? At the risk of sounding cheap

Getting Back into the Kindle Library from Within a Book?

2013-05-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi all. Yes, it seems like an obvious question, but I can't find a way to do this at all. Can someone get me out of this silly jam? :) Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rec

Re: Getting Back into the Kindle Library from Within a Book?

2013-05-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi, Don't you just double tap to bring up the menu, and then select Home? On 16/05/2013, at 3:08 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi all. Yes, it seems like an obvious question, but I can't find a way to do this at all. Can someone get me out of this silly jam? :) Thanks, Teresa -- You received th