[vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
- From: "Eamonn X. O'Connor" <EXOConnor@xxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:42:52 +0000
Hi Robbie,
Just a line to agree with Nicky.
I've downloaded very few apps and just never realised that so many and such
a variety were available.
Amazing, and thanks for taking the time to research it.
Last week a list of useful apps was posted, but I ffound myself Googling
most of them!
Regards,
Eamonn
[vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
nicholas kealy
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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:
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.
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
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" <
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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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Sent: 16 November 2011 12:10
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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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