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Apple Blunder

Published 07/05/2012 by Amy

Apple’s new IOS update 5.1.1 released today, left blind/vi users a little confused. The update not only turned VoiceOver off, it completely deleted the preferred settings, causing many of us to turn to our unupdated computers and iTunes to manually turn it back on or seek sighted assistance.

Not such a smart move, eh?

Mobile Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad 2

Published 15/03/2012 by Amy

I’ve been after a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad 2 for months, I’m a Qwerty girl at heart, been using them for over 16 years and I just find the touch screen irritating and typo inducing more often than not.  I’ve been keeping my eyes out and finally the prices started dropping. Amazon.co.uk had a few and so did Ebay. I was really after a black one, it looks like the back lit ones on the Macbook Pro’s and Airs but they wanted £20 and over for it, this white one was only £15 and it’s pretty much like my Mac keyboard I have on my Mini, except it doesn’t have the number pad on it, which I don’t mind.
It easily connected and paired to my iPad 2, and I didn’t even need assistance!
I’ve only been using it for half a day and It’s really making a difference already, I’ll give it a few weeks then do a proper review.

Whatever Wednesday

Published 14/03/2012 by Amy

First Wednesday and I’m already shaking things up. I’m so engrossed in the Marty’s Song series I haven’t made time to cruise through my to- read list on Goodreads and pick this weeks lucky top 10, the only movie I want to see right now is The Hunger Games but we don’t go to cinemas so I’ll have to wait for the DVD release for that.

Got a new shiny amazing gadget yesterday so today I’ve been busy making and uploading a video on it, check it out if you like.

I’m feeling a bit blah today, bad head, bad tummy, time to dose up and wrap up with an audio book. I finished Heaven’s Wager and I really enjoyed it, just need to put finishing touches on my review and post it on Saturday, started When Heaven Weeps and gosh, four chapters in and I’ve already been riled up and wanting to stop reading because it’s only going to get more emotion, but I’m holding on because I know I will grow from this and I need to read this, turning a blind eye now, no pun intended, would be wrong. If anyone has read this entire series or this book in particular, let me know your feelings about it, but please.. NO spoilers or not to many to that ruin the whole book, GOOD spoilers are welcome though, happy thoughts to look forward too.

- Amy

VoiceOver Walkthrough on the Apple iPod Touch 4th Gen

Published 27/01/2012 by Amy

VoiceOver on iPod Touch 4th Gen

I recently updated my mp3 player from one I could no longer read and that didn’t talk to me to an iPod Touch that talks to me and I can talk back to it. I was already familiar with VO because I have a Mac computer and the family use an iPad but I thought I would do a really basic walkthrough with some of the functions on an iPod Touch in the video above..

I hope it helps and if you have any questions or queries relating to VoiceOver on any iDevice  or you want to see a specific VO thing on an Apple Mac Mini, iPod Touch 4th or iPad leave a comment and I’ll do my best.

I Have This Affect On Technology…

Published 25/09/2011 by Amy
My Macbook has no memory.
It’s getting old poor thing, I think I may have to replace it. 
But I don’t have the money for a brand new one or even a refurbished one.
I’ve been researching and reading/watching reviews for the iPad 2.
It looks promising, the only thing I’m concerned about is Photobooth and iMovie. Since creating my youtube channel I’ve been making videos on Photobooth and editing them in iMovie. From what I see and hear on the reviews, it doesn’t sound like the Photobooth App on the iPad 2 has video, only still images. I know I can create videos in iMovie, or I used to be able to on my macbook, but I don’t know if you can do that on iMovie on the iPad either. 
It would be a considered purchase, my parents are offering to help me out and put it towards my Birthday and Christmas present. But I want to be sure it does everything I think it will before we go ahead. 


I haven’t seen one in a shop to pick it up and play around with. A Google search tells me PC World (UK) has a ‘buy now pay 2012′ deal going on for the iPad 2. But when I go to the store online I see nothing about it. 


At the moment I can just go online but I can’t open programmes properly or save anything. I’ve gone through and deleted everything I know I can and emptied the trash but the memory is still a problem. I think the new OS just finished it off, we thought it might. But I needed the new OS for my Braillepen12 to work. It doesn’t work on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, it needs Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard as a minimum. I know my Braillepen12 will work on the iPad, as the guy I bought my Braillepen12 from uses his on it. But I don’t suppose he makes youtube videos. 


It always feel like one step forward 10 steps back, when concerning technology and my ever increasing need to get further aids. Sometimes I just wish I was out of transition. The journey was at it’s end. So that I could just by the final products and be done with it. 25 years in transition is long enough. 
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