Talking Tech - Vision Australia Radio

Talking Tech 21st November 2017


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Seeing AI Now Available in Australia


 


Great this excellent app has now come to Australia with all of its camera functions: short text, document scanning, bar code, person identification, and scene preview (what the camera view is).


I’m finding Short text works great for quickly finding out the text on shopping items etc.  The less useful is the scene preview which gets things waring on. A regular basis.


Person identification is great, but until we can start wearing glass’s that does this (so some extent like the Orcam) I don’t see the need for this.


 


Orbit News


 


Finally, we have units at Vision Australia which will be field tested by staff and identified library customers.  Sales should start at the end of Jan 2018, but they are really here now.


 


Home Pod


 


Well looks like no Home Pod to put under the Christmas tree, Apple as postponed the launch of the Home Pod until early 2018.


 


BlindFold Games Issue and Resolution


 


Simply put Apple App Store  staff refused any more new or updates from BlindFold because they said the games were all the same.  A lot of people gave feedback and now this somewhat idiotic decision has now been reversed.


 


http://mosen.org/an-open-letter-to-tim-cook-about-those-blindfold-games-surely-one-of-your-departments-has-gone-rogue/


 


Twitter and 280 Charactersµ


 


There was a bug in Twitter for iOS VoiceOver users where 140 characters was still the limit when 280 characters was introduced.  Now fixed.  However, Twitter for the Mac is still limited to 140.


Twitterific for the Mac allows 280 characters.


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