[Nfb-krafters-korner] puppy raiser game for I phone

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The I-Phone is not accessible, but that app sounds cute.
--le

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From: "Marianne Denning" <mdenning at cinci.rr.com>
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I think the phone should be accessible.

Marianne
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] puppy raiser game for I phone


>
>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/05/11/daily19.html
>
> Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 4:54pm CDT
>
> Apple approves new guide dog game for iPhone
>
> San Antonio Business Journal - by
> Tamarind Phinisee
>
> San Antonio application developer Joseph Dolan has created a new
> interactive
> program for
> Apple Inc.
> that will benefit
> Guide Dogs of Texas.
>
> Guide Dogs of Texas raises, trains and provides guide dogs to visually
> impaired Texans to enhance their mobility and independence. It is the only
> guide
> dog school in Texas and is a member of the International Guide Dog
> Federation.
>
> Dolan created a downloadable application called Pocket Puppy Raiser that
> allows users to interact with a virtual puppy on the Apple iPhone. Users
> can
> scratch
> a sleeping puppy's belly until its leg shakes, pet the dog until it licks
> the iPhone screen or play a game of tug-of-war with the pup. Apple
> approved
> Pocket
> Puppy Raiser on May 7.
>
> The application costs $2.99 per download and proceeds will be split among
> the iPhone App Store, Dolan and Guide Dogs of Texas.
>
> Dolan, a graduate of Texas State Technical College, developed the
> application upon the recommendation of his mother, Michelle Pelletier, who
> works for Guide
> Dogs of Texas as a puppy raising program manager.
>
> Dolan says he plans to upgrade the Pocket Puppy Raiser to reflect the
> different tasks guide dogs perform as they grow older.
>
> "I'm thinking about starting the dog out as a puppy, and then as it gets
> bigger and becomes a guide dog it will take its owner for a walk on the
> street
> and stop at a crosswalk for traffic or for a walk to the Alamo," he says.
> "It will be a challenge, but I think I can do it."
>
> To download the app, go to iTunes and search "Pocket Puppy Raiser."
>
> Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is based in Cupertino, Calif.
>
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