[Ag-eq] Ag-eq Digest, Vol 76, Issue 7

Fri Nov 16 21:59:47 UTC 2012

Hi JODY, how do you get the tape measure apt to work with Voice Over on an 
iphone 4s that has all the updates like I.O.S.6 on it? I just grabbed it and 
tryed to measure my table that my computer is sitting on with no luck. Thank 
you for the feedback on the gardening apts! The best GPS apt out there is 
called GPS Drive. You have to buy a voice in order to use it but it's so 
worth the ten bucks! You can get walking and driving directions with it so 
if you get lost while you are traveling, then it will give you the 
directions on how to get to your final destanation. I have not tried the 
compis apt but it came with my phone. I know Salem, Oregon pretty well so a 
compis is rendered useless since I had to learn Salem's cardenal directions 
of its streets in the old route plan way before I moved here since I went to 
the Oregon School for the Blind which before our state government closed it 
down against the wishis of the NFB, many of my friends and I was located 
here in Salem and that was before the great iphones came onto the phone 
market. I also have that GPS apt that I told you about which also tells me 
which cardenal direction to go when I am going to an unfirmilar place. If I 
get turned around, it tells me "Rerouting" before it updates its information 
to get me to that same destanation from the point that I got lost. What 
gardening apts do you use? What are the best ones that have worked for you? 
I just got the vegetable calculater(Vegycalc) and the apt called When to 
Plant. They are both pretty good apts. I probabry have the same vegetable 
apt that I told you about in my first E Mail. I have the iphone 4s with the 
latest softwhare. I have already run into an incompatibillity problem with 
the text to speech softwhare on the BLIO apt so I hope that I did not run 
into another bug! I already contacted BLIO's tech support so hopefully, they 
will be able to kill that bug once and for all. The BLIO apt itself works 
with the latest softwhare as long as you get non-text to speech books for 
now. Give it a bit of time before you get the KNFB reading text to speech 
voices because that is where I ran into that bug. Which iphone do you have? 
Do you have the latest vertion of the I.O.S. softwhare? I think that if we 
want to help each other in the best wai possable with iphone information is 
to compair notes on who has which vertion so that we can give each other the 
best advice possable to avoid the technical bugs and inaccessable apts. By 
the way, the iphone 4s rules!!!
Kendra
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> Hi iphone using gardeners: Does anyone know of some good plant refference 
> guide apts? I am a gardener who has gotten an iphone last month and I need 
> a good apt or a number of good apts so that I can make my plant I.D. part 
> of my gardening at work go faster. I have found one for vegetables and a 
> vegetable callendar for growing vegetables but have not found one that 
> does fruit, flowers, trees and any other kind of plant under the sun. I 
> need such things like growing requirements, the growing zones that it can 
> live in, the blooming and/or harvist season, and that gives the butanical 
> name with the common name that also has more than one spieces of each 
> plant like five different varities of daffodils, garlic, pine trees, ECT. 
> I am looking for an apt for advanced gardeners such as myself. I use my 
> iphone for my research that I do at work so a very good gardening apt 
> would be a very good and useful tule in my gardening tule box. The closest 
> that I have found for fruits and flowers was a food apt and 
> 1-800-flowers.com but they are not quite what I'm after for plant research 
> and plant identafacation. I am the only one who uses an iphone for 
> gardening research at work so I can't ask my calleagues since I am also 
> the only one who uses an iphone. I don't know how many iphone users there 
> are on this list so if you are an iphone user like myself, I would really 
> appriciate the help!!!
> Kendra
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> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:59:11 -0500
> From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Gardening apts?
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> Hi Kendra,
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> Welcome to the iPhone world.  I just love my iPhone.  I have over 300 
> apps.
> Our daughter just got one and now she is hooked too.
>
> I think I have the same vegetable app that you have.  I suggest you search
> using different keywords to narrow down the selection.  I searched for
> planting guides and planting zones etc.  You get different apps with each
> search.  I must confess I only get the free apps because I don't want to
> spend money and then find out it doesn't work with Voice Over.
>
> I have an app called Tape Measure that is fantastic for measuring 
> distance.
> I used it to determine it is 75 feet from our front door to the gate then 
> 25
> fet to the road.  Our round pen is 50 feet in diameter and it is 110 feet
> from the barn to the garden which was handy when buying a hose.
>
> I also use the compass app and GPS to find the house when I get turned
> around in the field.  The other day I was out checking fences and I got
> turned around only to find I left the phone in the house so I had to rely 
> on
> where the sun was and the direction of the wind.  I have a wind chime on 
> the
> house but it wasn't windy enough to make noise.
>
> JODY
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