[Nfbmt] Fwd: NFB-NEWSLINEÂ(R) Mobile App 2.0 is Here!

[Dan Burke]

FYI -

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From: Scott White <swhite at nfb.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App 2.0 is Here!
To: Daniel Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com>

We are pleased to announce that NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App 2.0 is now in
the Apple App Store for you to download. We have made several
improvements and smoothed out some of the bugs that appeared after the
iOS 6.0 update was released by Apple. Now you should have a better
user experience and access to some of the other information provided
by NFB-NEWSLINE®.

Now you can receive your emergency weather alerts right on your iPhone
with the NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App. If there is a weather alert for
your area, and your address and zip code is up to date on your
NFB-NEWSLINE® account, you will hear a message saying “weather alert”
when you launch your NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile app, and you will feel your
iPhone vibrate. Just double tap on the weather alert button when you
hear the alert, and you can read the entire weather alert on your
iPhone. Please keep in mind that only the iPhone will vibrate, since
only the iPhone has the built-in vibration motor. Those of you running
the NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App on an iPad or an iPod will only receive
the voice alert without the vibration. If you want to get just the
vibration alert without the voice alert, you can turn off the voice
alert for weather alerts in the settings menu. If you need to update
your address and zip code, you can call 1-866-504-7300, or e-mail
nfbnewsline-ios at nfb.org.

We have also added a Messages section, so that you may read the latest
announcements and information that we post on NFB-NEWSLINE®. We put up
messages from time to time to inform our subscribers about latest
enhancements and changes to NFB-NEWSLINE®, and these can be read from
the Messages section in the NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App. The Messages
button will appear under the welcome message on your home screen.
Please note that messages will only appear if you have active Internet
service through a Wi-Fi connection or your mobile carrier. You can
also read more extensively about these new changes and enhancements to
NFB-NEWSLINE® in the Messages section.

We have made other small improvements and changes to the NFB-NEWSLINE®
Mobile App that will enhance your user experience. For example, now
you can update your subscriptions in the subscriptions section without
any problems, and the jump to channel on-screen keyboard in the TV
listings has been improved so that now you get the numeric keypad when
typing in a channel number instead of the full QWERTY keyboard.

Once again, we would like to remind you that we have added two new
publications in a new category labeled Breaking News Online. These are
the Huffington Post, a very well-known online site, and CNN, which is
part of Turner Broadcasting System’s cable news network.

The Breaking News Online category can be found by first selecting the
Publications button off the home screen of the app, and then selecting
Publication Options toward the bottom of the screen. Finally, select
the Publication Groups button to see a list of available groups
including the new Breaking News Online category. Optionally, to add
the online breaking news publications to your favorites list or your
subscriptions list on the NFB-NEWSLINE® App, just go to Settings, and
then select either Manage Favorites or Manage Subscriptions, depending
on which you want to add it to, then select either the Add to
Favorites button at the bottom of the screen, or the Add to
Subscriptions button, and pick the publication that you want to add
from the list.

In order to update your NFB-NEWSLINE® App, just go to the App store,
then to the Updates tab, and you should see NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile as
one of the applications listed as ready to update. Select the update
button, and it should start to download the new version of the app on
to your device.

Please enjoy the new enhancements to the NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App, and
give us your feedback by e-mail at swhite at nfb.org, or call our comment
line at 410-505-5896 and leave us a voice message.

The NFB-NEWSLINE® Team


-- 
Dan Burke, President
The National Federation of the Blind of Montana

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