[vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
- From: RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:44:45 +0000
*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.).
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*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
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> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
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> Lol Donal! How true!
>
> Well I guess social networking ... music ... radio ... independent living
> skills .. those would be the priority ;)
>
> Sabrina
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Dónal Fitzpatrick
> Sent: 16 November 2011 12:10
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> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: useful apps!
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> 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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