Very impressed with the OCR scanner in Readdle's Scanner Pro iOS app.
@kdfrawg I bought a Mac Classic from a friend for $10. This was the special enhanced one with an 80 MB HD instead of the 40 MB standard. It also has 10 MB of RAM instead of the more typical 1 or 4 MB. The reason for the purchase was that work requirements were that we received & despatched finished jobs via fax. I already had the fax software & inkjet printer from other Macs, this one was set up solely as a fax. Then after about 6 months a new boss decided the fax method was too silly. and the same info could be handled as text over a phone line.
// @thrrgilag
@kdfrawg It is.It works the same way as the Microsoft magnifier app on the Windows phone. I used that app to make up for the lack of a macro setting on the Lumia 1020. Focusing is easier this way.
@larand It also happens if you make an edit to a post. I stop using ampersands.
// @matigo
When I used the Lumia 1020 as my phone, an app called Magnifier let me zoom in a lot closer than the limited macro capability of an otherwise great camera would allow. It worked like a video stream, pause it and it takes a pic you could then work with. Great for reading small print on electronic/pill bottles.
Well, that's now an Accessibility option in iOS 10!
•iOS 10’s built in magnifying glass http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/07/25/ios-10s-built-in-magnifying-glass/
Got a text message 9 hours ago, someone had left a voicemail message on the home phone. I contacted home voicemail on the iPhone, it was my mother saying she needed a driver on Monday to take her to her shoulder surgeon and be there at 2:50 pm. She was relieved when I said I'd made that day free ever since the specialist's clerk had made the Monday appointment back in May.
@matigo No. My hands shake too much to be able to do such fine work.
// @sumudu
Bought the 4G pocket WiFi modem as approved by the Men's Shed group committee last week. Comes with 4 GB of data which expires in two weeks, no chance of using all of that. I've attached it with cable ties to the foot/stand of the Shed's iMac, so it'll be harder to lose & be in close proximity to a USB port for charging. Tomorrow I hope to change the connection to double-sided mounting tape, if I can find any.
I estimate the best data recharge for our usage to be 4GB for $40 with a 60 day expiry. It's a prepaid service, so if we run out, we just renew on the spot.
Doesn't tie us into any contracts.
Feeling for an ADN follower in the west of the state: he's been evacuating relatives from potentiality flood-affected areas. A temporary levee bank may or may not give way. Says he's worn out & chilled to the core. He's dealing with it in a jacuzzi with some friends.