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		<title>WriteRoom: Accessible Writing App</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite app for writing emails and other documents on my Touch is WriteRoom. It it both accessible and versatile, though it is not free. Despite the rather hefty price tag at $4.99, it is well worth it. For me, accessibility is key and WriteRoom wins hands down here. Not only does it offer a widescreen mode, but a reverse pinch (the zoom gesture) takes the app to full screen mode, adding viable scree real estate. WriteRoom offers an inverse color scheme (shown in the screen shot below) with scalable fonts. My only gripe here is that the maximum font size ought to be larger. On top of accessibility, the app has both simplicity and versatility on it&#8217;s side. The interface is clean and intuitive. Documents can be backed up and accesses online ( and by a program on Mac computers). Files can also be sent to directly to the Mail app (a fairly standard feature). My only gripe here is that the name of the app is inserted into the subject line automatically. My gripes are quite minor in the face of WriteRoom simplicity, accessibility and versatility. If you write many emails or other documents on your iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Access to The Major Leagues</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/iphone-access-to-the-major-leagues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have something to confess. I am one of god&#8217;s most pathetic creatures. I am a Boston Red Sox fan. Even though I had to quit little league after getting hit in the face trying to play catch on sidelines, I still love the game. My one season of little league involved a total of two hits (both off my best friend at the time) and playing outfield by listening for the ball to land so I could find it. Despite all this, I am a big fan. When I go to a game, I need someone to narrate the action and read me the scoreboard. Regardless, baseball is the only sport I follow with any attention. A few years ago, we moved away from Fenway Park, far out of the broadcast range of NESN and WRKO (the cable and radio homes of the Sox). Fortunately, MLB offered a online audio subscription, letting me listen to the games at my desk. But is has been hard to stay stuck to my desk night after night. This year, MLB has offered a new solution. MLB&#8217;s At Bat 2009 is MLB&#8217;s iPhone app. How cool, you ask, is that? Pretty cool is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotating Images on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/06/rotating-images-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted when I Bought My First iPhone App, there is no built-in way to totate images on the iPhone. Apple probably never thought of it because rotating images on the iPhone makes them quite small. It is both better and simpler just to swivel the iPhone itself depending on whether the image is landscape or portrait. On the other hand, what if you want to insert the image into an email or, in my case, a blog post? Landscape images come out sideways. Initially, to get around this, I needed to download the image onto your computer and rotate it there. What a pain! Managing all those downloaded images and then getting them onto the blog or into email is just unnecessary. There is a $0.99 app on the iPhone that does this one thing and does it well. It rotates images. Called Photo Rotate, this well-named app from Andrew Bednarz does an elegant job. The interface is simple and well laid out. In the current release, you can choose both clockwise and counterclockwise rotation as well as horizontal or vertical flips. Although the font could be a bit bigger, the light-on-dark color scheme and the simple, uncluttered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HearPlanet</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/hearplanet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, some one, as usual, has beaten me to it.  Not long ago, I posted about talking lamp posts. These talking lamp posts would give nearby visitors an audio description of their location. I thought it would be a better idea to build that capability into GPS-capable devices. They can build the ‘guides’ into the GPS devices. The new driving GPS devices allow users to import audio guides that are triggered as you near a location with a description. Why not add these to the pedestrian GPS devices? It could be a grass roots effort, like a Wikipedie-esque WikiAudioEyesGuide. The GPS device could download audio clips for he local area (created by regular people) that would be triggered when the GPS device nears particular GPS coordinates. This way there is not extensive expense changing lampposts. Also, information can be updated regularly. Well, HearPlanet is an iPhone app that reads nearby Wikipedia entries out loud. It turns out that Wikipedia is already a WikiAudioEyesGuide site. HearPlanet delivers location information that really speaks to you. It&#8217;s like having a professional tour guide always by your side. Leave those bulky tour books behind and let HearPlanet show you the way. We make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Tip: If Found Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I posted a tip about adding IDs to the iPhone wallpaper. This tip involved adding your contact info manually using an image editing software on your desktop. Too tricky for most, including me. Fortunately, it turns out that ther is an easier way to do this. There are to similar apps, with sacly similar names, that will add your contact info to images directly on your iPhone. If Found, Please&#8230; If Found, Please&#8230; is a cool little free app. From the developers at Polka: Create a message and contact information on your own personal wallpaper in case your phone is lost. Best part is the information is viewable even if the phone is locked. Hopefully the nice person that finds it will contact you and arrange its safe return! The app puts a little text box and an exclamation mark at the bottom of the image you would like to be your iPhone wallpaper. Once saved, you hop over to the Photo library and set the new image as your wallpaper. If Found If Found is quite similar. From the developers at mobilityware: If Found is an application that lets you store your contact information on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another iPhone Full Screen Browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On every digital device, some piece of the screen is almost always lost to toolbars. Windows has its Task Bar. Each individual software has its title bar up top, usually following by the main menu bar. The iPhone&#8217;s browser has the same issues. As you can see on the right, a portion of the top and bottom of the small iPhone. The problem is exacerbated by using the iPhone in landscape mode, which is a key mode for iPhone accessibility. There is a nifty little app, simply called Full Screen Web Browser, which addresses this issue for $0.99. Simply put, this device saves space. For a visually impaired user zooming into the text while in landscape mode, this makes a big difference. According the developers, forty percent of the screen&#8217;s space is saved. Browse the web free from clutter! The Full Screen Web Browser from SOPODS is a true full-screen web browser available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app gives you up to 40% of your screen&#8217;s real estate back by hiding the buttons, address and even the status bar when you don&#8217;t need them. Now you can take full advantage of the ample screen on your iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Public Radio on an iPhone Tuner</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/accessing-public-radio-on-an-iphone-tuner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 12:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. My name us Tim and I am an addict. Addicted to public radio, that is. The alarm clock radio, the shower radio, the kitchen radio, the car radio. Even iTunes. Now the iPod Touch. The Public Radio Exchange has released a fee iPhone app, Public Radio Tuner, that finds and streams US public radio stations. Many public radio stations offer an internet stream, which the iPhone or Touch can access. Public Radio Tuner describes itself as follows: The goal is to create the Public Radio Tuner – an application for the iPhone platform using Apple’s recently released software development kit (SDK) and iTunes App Store distribution service. The application will serve end users by initially offering access to local stations’ internet radio streams. Additional versions will offer program/content guides along with a catalog of on-demand audio content from local, independent, and national content providers. Future functionality will enable direct listener contributions to stations and content providers. The project will establish a coordinated approach to the iPhone as a powerful platform for public media, setting standards and shared resources for further application development. How accessible is the app? The font is small, but not tiny. There is no landscape mode, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock App</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/accessing-iphone-time-the-digital-clock-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Digital Clock is a nifty little app for the iPhone. It turns the iPhone into a bedside digital alarm clock. Colors are customizable and the app swivels smoothly from portrait to landscape mode. From its web site, Rock iPhone: A free version of the favorate nightstand appliction &#8211; Easy Clock. Turn your iphone/ipod touch into a digital clock, of which you can customize the font as any color. You can place the clock horizontally or vertically. There are two reason why this app is accessible. First, the font, especially in landscape mode, is nice and large. Second, the customizable color scheme allows for nicely high contrast, light-on-dark combinations, like the yellow on black in the screen shot here. There are a few features I would love to see this app implement. The first is some kind of orientation lock, so it could be stuck in landscape mode. The font size is much larger this way and, so, more readable. The second is currently impossible. It would be nice to leave this app on for a set period of time without the iPhone sleeping. It would truly be a digital clock for a while. Lastly, I would get rid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Access on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/weather-access-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy. I carry my own meteorologist around in my pocket. I check the temperature, outdoor conditions and the forecast several times a day. I guess I am crazy. But the iPhone&#8217;s Weather App is a great personal meteorologist. Well designed,, it lays out lots of information in a simple, easy to read format. Using images instead of text, the forecast and current conditions are easy and quick to see. The dark background adds not only to the aesthetics, but makes it much more accessible as well. Weather lacks two important accessibility features, zoom and landscape mode. I understand why the develops did not find this necessary, but I do not see how enabling them would hurt. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing the iPhone CalendarAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock AppAccessing the NY Times, iPhone EditioniPhone as Accessible Pocket Watch]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Google Talk on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s iPhone app brings most of Google&#8217;s many applications under one roof. It refers most features to that application&#8217;s mobile web site. Google Talk is one of these applications. Since my wife and I are one of those couples that instant message each from one room to the other, I wanted to test this out on my iPod Touch. As simple as it is to start up a conversation in Google Talk, it is not very easy to use from an accessibility vantage. The one saving grace is that landscape mode is available of mobile web sites. Otherwise, Talk is just too hard to use. The main stumbling block is the tiny font size. Without zoom, there is way to read this Talk&#8217;s minuscule font. Added to the mix is Google&#8217;s signature color scheme. While elgant, it is the mix of blue and white does not offer sufficient contrast. Google Talk is available via the Google Talk mobile web site or through the Google Mobile App for your iPhone, available on the iPhone or in the iTunes App Store. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To keep track of all the blogs I like to follow, I use Google Reader. It has a nice clean interface and works in any browser from anywhere. So, I naturally wanted to check this out for the iPhone. Like most of Google&#8217;s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web site on the iPhone&#8217;s built-in browser. The iPhone browser allows landscape mode for any site, so Google Reader has that accessibility feature. Unfortunately, that is the only accessibility y feature the program has. For some reason, mobile web sites tend to disable the multi-touch zoom that is the iPhone&#8217;s big accessibility advantage. Google Reader also sticks with Google&#8217;s elegant, but low contrast, color scheme. It is useable, but zoom would make it that much better. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing Google Talk on the iPhoneAccessing the iPhone CalendarAccessible e-Reading: Google BooksAccessing the iPhone App StoreAccessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock App]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the iPhone Calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone&#8217;s built-in Calendar App is one of the more important features for a smart phone. Unfortunately, this program is very inaccessible. There are four accessibility features I look for in iPhone apps; zoom, landscape mode, adjustable color scheme, and adjustable font sizes. Calendar has none of these. As you can see in the screen shot, the title font is legible, but the rest of the text is in a tiny font. Without zoom, or even landscape mode, there is no way to make the tiny text readable. If you are using Google Calendar, you are bettor off using the mobile web site in the browser. This way, landscape mode offers slightlly better readability. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing the iPhone App StoreGiant Fonts for iPhone MailOff-Topic: Syncing Google Contacts &#038; Calendar with your iPHoneFeeds on the Go: Accessing Google Reader on the iPhoneWeather Access on the iPhone]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetie Access on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my earlier review of free Twitter apps on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone, a reader suggested I check out his favorite Twitter app, Tweetie. Tweetie is a feature-rich Twitter app that has added a couple of valuable accessibility features in its latest release, making Tweetie worth the $2.99 price tag. [Caveat Emptor: I used a free promo code to download this app fro review.] Tweetie now has both themes and font choice. The large font choice is reasonably large (you can also choose small and medium). One of the theme choices is a very accessible light-on-dark. Between these two features, I find Tweetie sufficiently easy to use. There are a couple of changes that would make the app more accessible. Landscape mode, combined with a giant font option, would make Tweetie even easier to read. The theme only covers the main page. Tapping to a single tweet page reverts to the normal white-on-black color scheme. Overall, Tweetie is now my default choice for Twittering on my iPod Touch. Besides the ease of reading, Tweetie also allows me to keep track of both the Twitter accounts I run, oberazzi, for this blog, and BlindPhotogs, for the Blind Photographers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the iPhone App Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating apps on the iPhone, from a readability point of view, is the App Store itself. Like it iTunes counterpart, the store uses unnecessarily tiny font.There is no workaround. You can&#8217;t zoom. You can&#8217;t go landscape. There is no font setting. You can&#8217;t even go to the mobile web site version of the App Store. It does not exist. So finding apps is hard. Identifying features is hard. Seeing the price is near impossible. I need to get out a dome magnifier and my low vision glassed just to guess at a few words. It is much better, where and when possible, to find good apps using Google. You can then just search for the name and download the app without reading any details. It makes little sense to me. I think that landscape mode is disabled since screen shots are shown in portrait. Still, that is not a good enough reason. I can come up with no rationale for using such a tiny font without zoom. Zoom is one of the iPhone signature features. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Easy Access Mode: An App Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes from a small field posted a neat idea for iPhone accessibility a couple of years back. He proposes an accessibility mode, where the iPhone (or any touch screen device) engages a very simple interface for the disabled. A while ago, I posted about a similar concept for the desktop computer, but that has not achieved any traction either. The basic idea is for a touch screen device, like the iPhone, to support an accessible mode where, instead of the usual graphical buttons and layouts, large areas of the screen are used with a telephone prompt style system to interact with the user. For example, an audio prompt to, “Press the top right of the screen to make a call” and so on. High contrast blocks of colours would make it possible to find the right area with very little vision, and completely blind users could find the edge of the screen by touch, with small modifications to the case if necessary. Numeric input, to enter a phone number for example, could be handled with simple tactile markers arranged around the outside of the screen. Switching to the accessible mode could be as simple as pressing anywhere on the screen [...]]]></description>
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