[vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
- From: Dónal Fitzpatrick <dfitzpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:40:39 +0000
A rather excellent idea Nicky. Duly noted.
On 20 Nov 2011, at 14:52, nicholas kealy wrote:
> Hi, catching up on mails after a busy weekend. Robbie, that is a fantastic
> summary of Apps. Maybe the Vics online controllers should work with you to
> have this put on the website and maybe up dated or added too from time to
> time. Its only a suggestion and not trying to make work here for people but
> you clearly took the time to sit down and write it and I do think things like
> that can be a real benefit to people like myself that use the Iphone or other
> I devices but don't get to find good Apps that could open up more information
> sources to us.
>
> Cheers, Nicky.
>
> ssent from my Iphone
>
> On 19 Nov 2011, at 01:44 p.m., RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>> GPS:
>> Just to say, Ariadne is a GPS app costing about E8. If you live in an urban
>> area, it's excellent at updating you as to your location (street and even
>> house-number), as well as direction you're going in and approximate speed.
>>
>> There are other GPS apps which cost varying amounts and do different things
>> - and possibly suit rural areas better; these include Navigon and Sendero.
>>
>> Music:
>> The one I use most is Sound Hound - the free version; if you press 'music
>> search' and hold it up to the music source, within three or four seconds, it
>> will tell you the name of the tune, the artist and the album it ican be
>> found on. This is nice for anyone with compilation albums or old casettes
>> with radio-recordings. Even when Windows Media Player says 'Unkown Artist',
>> Sound Hound will probably know. It's very good on stuff sung in English -
>> especially from the US or Britain.
>>
>> If you're a musician, you can get guitar-tuning apps, apps giving chords to
>> music you want to play. Otherwise, there are apps which give you the Top
>> 100 pop charts throughout the world - letting you hear samples of each song.
>>
>> There's an easy-to-use YouTube app allowing you to watch or listen to music
>> (or anything else for that matter). that song you haven't heard for years -
>> it's probably there.
>>
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>> Sports:
>> There are GAA apps giving socres and reports of matches (local and national)
>> you might have missed. There's an app for soccer-fans called Live Score,
>> giving the latest socres (updated every minute) from around the world; you
>> can pick which match or region or competition you're interested in of
>> course; this one's also handy if you've missed matches. there are similar
>> apps for just about any other sport.
>>
>> For anaracs, you can pin websites to your main pages or sports-folder in my
>> case, with BBC Sport or whatever league tables, leading scorers etc.
>>
>> Internet:
>> You can do the same pinning of your favourite pages of any type for ease of
>> access; it's much faster than using the 'favourites' bar. Also, there's a
>> Google app to make net navigation a sinch, and a wikipedia app if you need
>> to consult the wisdom of the crowd.
>>
>>
>> Because the default Weather app isn't that accurate, I've pinned another
>> weather website and it also gives sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight,
>> moonrise and moonset etc. There are also apps that just give local
>> sunrise or sunset and similar types of information - very handy if you're
>> totally blind and and aren't sure when to close the curtains and turn on the
>> lights, or do the opposite in the mornings.
>>
>> Reference:
>> I like an app called 'Word a Day. It does exactly what is says and you
>> don't even need a network connection once it's downloaded. Otherwise, you
>> can get English dictionaries, Irish-English Dictionaries (except Apple
>> voiceover doesn't do Irish language), French, German, Swaheli, etc. there
>> are probably encyclopaedia apps but I haven't checked. Wikipedia is good
>> enough for me if I need stuff quickly.
>>
>> Media:
>> Never mind RTÉ's inaccessible apps and players, everyone else can do it
>> better. Why not catch up on the latest Iranian propaganda (or any you've
>> missed) with the Press TV app; similarly, Ajazeera, CNN, BBC, France 24 etc.
>> all have apps doing the same thing. If you get Today FM or Newstalk''s app,
>> you can hear back-issues and podcasts of much more than you can get on
>> TunedIn for instance.
>>
>> Books:
>> iBooks and Audible are two apps alerady mentioned, but apart from similar
>> apps such as Amazon, you'll also find free apps for free books (for adults
>> and children). Some books have the audio read by an actor - and I've known
>> people to use these to read their children bed-time stories.
>>
>> Newspapers have apps - normally, you pays your money and takes your chances.
>> I no longer get the point of newspapers, meself, except, if you want to
>> pay, you can keep in touch with what's happening in your community (regional
>> papers etc.).
>>
>> Children's Games:
>> You might find this stuff handy in small doses: Sheep Launcher, B Classic,
>> Red Hood, Fruit Ninja and many more games. There are also at least a dozen
>> reasonably good colouring and drawing apps for kids. My daughter even
>> prefers my iPhone to her Nintendo DS (more's the pity). For younger ones,
>> there are more than a dozen talking characters which repeat what the human
>> is saying, but in the character's own funny voice; these characters also do
>> amusing stuff when certain buttons are pressed. You have to turn voice-over
>> mode off for this stuff to be used, and I've yet to find a game playable by
>> a vip 9child or adult).
>>
>> Utilities:
>> Apps from your electricity or gas company, or even institution of work or
>> study, allow you to read bills or keep updated in other ways.
>>
>> there are many apps which are not accessible to Voice-over users, but with
>> what's there, there's never a dull moment - literally.
>>
>> Robbie
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>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Shirley and maisie
>> <shirley1980@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sabrina,
>> You should also check out tune in radio Its brilliant for listening to over
>> 50 thousand radio stations!
>>
>> Shirley
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sabrina McKiernan"
>> <sabmckiernan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:02 PM
>>
>> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
>>
>>
>> Lol Donal! How true!
>>
>> Well I guess social networking ... music ... radio ... independent living
>> skills .. those would be the priority ;)
>>
>> Sabrina
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dónal Fitzpatrick
>> Sent: 16 November 2011 12:10
>> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
>>
>> Hi There,
>> Now that question could fill a book. What are you interested in?
>> On 16 Nov 2011, at 12:06, Sabrina McKiernan wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So now that I am set up on Itunes and the app store, what mighty apps are
>> good?;) have just downloaded free version of Skype.
>>
>> Sabrina
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