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<DIV>I don't know how new this app for the IPhone is, but the folks over at the
Krafters Division just came across it and are telling us all about it. It
is over in the Apple Ap store.</DIV>
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color=#363636 size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Tap Tap See is a
camera app for blind people. Sure, any partially or non-sighted person could
just snap bad, out-of-focus pictures of their shoes, or of the backs of their
friends heads, with any camera app. But only Tap Tap See will then say to them,
out loud, “Shoes,” or “Head.”</SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#363636 size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">You see, Tap Tap
See is like a sighted assistant that never grow tired of you asking “what’s
that?”</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">The app is
designed to be used by the visually impaired, which means that you’ll have to
turn on Voice Over on your <A id=KonaLink1
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style="BACKGROUND: white">iPhone</SPAN></SPAN></A> to get it to actually speak
the results. Voiceover is one of many built-in services which make the iPhone
easier to use for people who can’t see it or touch it
properly.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#363636 size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #363636; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">One done, you
just point it at something and double-tap the screen. It’ll tell you it has
snapped a picture (“Photo 5 taken,” or something similar) and then, a few
seconds later, it’ll read out the result. I pointed it at my legs, as any good,
lazy blogger is bound to do with a new camera app, and the app said “blue
jeans.” I tried it with my iPhone (“Apple iPhone”), and a ceiling lamp (“hanging
lamp”). </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Joyce
Kane<BR><A
href="http://www.krafterskorner.org/">www.KraftersKorner.org</A><BR>Blindhands@AOL.com
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