Today is Interpreter Appreciation Day for our interpreters. Dr. Z wants to express his sincere appreciation for the great work they do via a video message.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Sometimes when you use your iPhone often, the battery runs down quickly. You want to charge and use it quickly again. It is easy if you can wait one hour! Here’s how…
1) Go into airplane mode
2) Use an iPad charger (not the iPhone charger)
3) Turn the iPhone off
In one hour, you will gain about 30-50%, in 2 hours, it will go over 75%!
Try this! Dr. Z is not responsible for those of you not using non-Apple chargers or non-Apple cables.
Here’s more info (link) (link no longer working).
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link (link no longer working).
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z continues to put his faith in Twitter. For some reason, deaf people relate more to Facebook, but not Twitter yet and Dr. Z is on a crusade to help the deaf community to look into and use Twitter more.
The last few posts have been nothing but Twitter. In this post, Dr.Z will let you look up a great website which has a lot of good info on Twitter. The problem with Twitter is that it is a bit longer to learn and get used to than Facebook, for example–but patience patience, you will be rewarded at the end for a wonderful tool and resource.
Here’s the link (link no longer working) for a good resource on Twitter.
Enjoy!
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z is continuing to try to make everyone realize and appreciate the power of Twitter….
Those days, the weather is crazy for everyone except Dr. Z–Vermonters are used to the changes in weather–we are usually well equipped–actually, we usually have a lot of snow and swings in temperature every year–it changes from year to year..this year we have seen a bit more snow and felt a bit more colder than usual…
To get weather info on twitter, here’s a recommendation for starters…Weather Link on Twitter
If you have a Twitter account, type “Weather (name of your city)” in the search bar
You will see many different tweets regarding the weather….
Enjoy!
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z is trying to make everyone realize and appreciate the power of Twitter….
Here’s a way…if you do not have a Twitter account, click this link.
If you have a Twitter account, type “Valentine’s Day” in the search bar
You will see how many different views of Valentine will show up!
Enjoy!
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
You can enhance your TV viewing experience while watching the Super Bowl with your mobile phone or iPad in your hand.
You can experience Twitter for the first time and get an idea of how this works.
Download Twitter from the Apple App store (for iOS) or Google Play (for Android).
After you set your account up, at the top of your screen, you will see a bar “Search Twitter”. Type the following hashtag “#SB49”
You will see a Twitter feed of news, comments and facts related to the Super Bowl. Swipe down on the screen to see new feeds as they will appear frequently.
Facebook also created a live news feed for the Super Bowl.
Type “superbowl” in your Facebook search bar. Then scroll down to “Live Feed” with a green icon.
No need for the game to begin to use Twitter or Facebook. The feed is already live so you can start “practicing.”
Enjoy!
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z sees a trend. Many people are using Facebook but not enough people are using Twitter. Twitter is a very nice tool to keep yourselves up to date. The problem is it doesn’t make sense at first until you use it for a while. Dr. Z spent several hours on the internet trying to find a good tutorial on Twitter, but he feels most of them missed the concept or getting too complicated in the beginning.
So Dr. Z gave up and put together a tutorial for those of you who could benefit. The slide show is below and you can download this as a PDF file using the link at the bottom.
Dr. Z-Twitter 101 (pdf file available for downloading)
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Every January, there’s a huge trade show in Las Vegas called the Consumer Electronics Show or “CES” for short.
The newest TV’s, newest gadgets, newest add-ons for your car, new trends are usually introduced at CES and this year it is no different.
How about this? A printer to make cookies that you can eat! An alarm clock that will wake you up in different ways. A remote control from your iPhone to start your car in cold weather. The list goes on and on.
Here’s a link for you to enjoy. Some of the topics may be too geeky, while others make sense.
But some of these will be making our lives more accessible, while others are not because they either depend on voice to trigger something or use voice to say something automatically.
Dr. Z being a geek, enjoys those whiz-bang topics.
By the way, if you want something for your desktop, why not get Z5 MAX? Click this link.
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z came across a cool blog for those of you who got a new device for the holidays and after the excitement of plugging it in, you now realize what’s next or there are some things that you don’t get…here’s a guide to help you!
For those of you who got a new iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, here’s the link…
For those of you who got a new Android device, here’s the link…
For those of you who got a new Mac or iMac, here’s the link…
For those of you who got a new Windows PC, here’s the link…
And for all of the above, you can make a VP call!
Here are the links to download apps from ZVRS!
iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch (link for Z5 Mobile)
Android (link for Z5 Mobile)
Mac or iMac (link for Z5 Desktop)
Windows PC (link for Z5 Desktop)
Enjoy!
If you need help, write to Dr. Z using the form at the upper left side of this blog–he will direct you to a resource to help you!
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development
Dr. Z doesn’t often tell you about apps on sale because they usually go up for a short time. But this sale is pretty good, so he is putting this up for you to enjoy. Dr. Z will remove this post after the sale expires in a few days.
Here are the links:
Enjoy!
By the way, if you need video communication (VP or VRS), why not try Z5, you will like it! Click here to get it! (See if you qualify to get a FREE tablet with a stand!)
Dr. Z is proud to be part of the team that understands and listens to the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing community!
Dr. Z cares about your communication access.
Disclosure: Dr. Z (Philip W. Bravin) is associated with CSDVRS, currently its Vice-President of Business Development