[Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device [a word about Tap Tap]

Fri Mar 22 21:30:10 UTC 2013

Thanks Andy,

I forgot the word motion:)

Jenny
On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:04 PM, "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov> wrote:

> Motion GPS Drive. make sure that you get the one with the word "Drive"
> in the title.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jenny Keller
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device [a word about Tap
> Tap]
> 
> What was that GpS drive thing you recommended?
> 
> I looked on the app store and couldn't find it.  
> 
> I probably have the wrong name.
> 
> Jenny
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:20 PM, cheez <cheez at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> Dominik, CEO and founder of TapTapSee and our new app CamFind.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We utilize both computer recognition and human crowdsourcing for the
> app. So basically whenever a computer can't recognize an image, it gets
> sent to humans who try to ID it, but this process is quite expensive and
> we want to keep the app totally free, but there are quite high costs in
> paying dozens of people each day to tag the images so if we don't raise
> enough money, we might not be able to keep TapTapSee alive which would
> be a shame so donations to this particular $20 incentive of our other
> project we have on KickStarter will be critical for us as half the money
> will go to directly support TapTapSee (I would do the entire money but
> since the KickStarter campaign is for a different app, I'm not allowed
> to do so)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you don't mind please direct anyone you know that would like to see
> TapTapSee stay alive and thrive to our KickStarter campaign:
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dominikmazur/camfind-a-mobile-visual
> -search-app and select the $20 incentive where half the donation will go
> to sponsor TapTapSee or maybe you will be kind enough to donate
> yourself.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We really appreciate it, but by keeping the app free, it's costing us
> hundreds of dollars per day (in order to pay sighted people to help tag
> the images)  Please share this with anyone that could benefit from
> TapTapSee and uses it and would like it to survive in the future.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dominik
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dominikmazur/camfind-a-mobile-visual
> -search-app
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kendra Schaber"
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>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>> 
>> 
>>> There are no accessable scanning apps for blind people that I know
> of. The best GPS app is called GPS Drive. There are no good bar coad
> reading apps that I know of. I also don't know of a good color app. I do
> know of a good object identafier app called Tap Tap See which if you
> take a picture, it tells you what you got for a picture. The object of
> this app is to help you find objects around the house or while you are
> in a place that doesn't allow you to explore in other ways besides site.
>>> Kendra
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Bramlett"
> <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:23 PM
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> For those of you using an I device, which free aps do you find
> helpful?
>>>> Are there aps for scanning, bar code recognition, and color
> identification?
>>>> How about GPS aps?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm asking because I intern in a section 508 office and they want to
> do an outreach session on accessible aps for disabled people. This
> includes blindness and two other disabilities.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Ashley
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