The other day Dr. Z and his wife were driving home and we saw a sign that is a “sign of the times.” A text stop, in addition to a rest stop. What about a video stop? But come to think of it…it is a safety move–a text stop takes you off the road to send a text message. A video stop will do the same.

Word of support and thought from Dr. Z: “DON’T TEXT OR VIDEO WHILE DRIVING”

DR. Z CARES ABOUT YOUR SAFETY.

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

Dr. Z is writing this blog post while he is on a plane from Vermont to California.

He is trying to prove that it can be done while you are connected to the internet 35,000 feet in the air.

He is flying Southwest today. It costs $8 to have wifi on your iPad or iPhone while you are in the air. It is good for one day and only one device. This means if you use your iPad and your iPhone, you have to pay $8 each for both of them.

The rest of the domestic airlines use a service known as “Gogo.” Gogo usually charges $14.95 for a day or $39.95/$49.95 a month. Sometimes the airlines offer a special for a limited period of time. Sometimes, if you buy before you fly, it could be cheaper than if you buy while you are airborne.

Is wifi in the air as good as the wifi at your home or office? From my experience, the answer is NO! I use it only when I have some urgent work or matters to attend to. But if I had a choice, I would pass on that until the airlines get better with this. It is still not good enough for video communication in the air. The connection can be described as “sputtering.” Sometimes it works great then it sputters. Knowing how technology progresses, Dr. Z is of the opinion it will get better with time.

For a link to “Gogo”, click this: Gogo Link

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

Dr. Z has a great app for you.  Sometimes when you are waiting in line at the supermarket because a product does not have a bar code on it and people are running to get more info on it, or while in the car riding on a interstate in the middle of nowhere with no scenery, you want to lazily read some news and some nice stuff…the best app for this is called “Flipboard”

Dr. Z uses it while he is waiting to board a plane, or while in the plane before it leaves the gate.  It is a perfect app to get info quickly without having to think or use a browser.

Try it, you will like it!

The link to Flipboard on the iTunes store is as follows: link.

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

A picture is worth 1,000 words, but if you do creative things, it can be worth 10,000 words!

Dr. Z has been playing with iOS 7 on his iPad and iPhone.

One of the coolest new things that comes with iOS 7 in the Camera app is the panorama mode.

Sometimes when you take a picture, you are stuck with what you can take because you are too close to the subject or not wide enough.

The panorama feature allows you to move the camera from left to right or even around you to show what your eye can see!

Like the picture above, it was taken with panorama feature (Dr. Z did not take that picture, he copied it from another website. Thanks to that website.)

There are many other cool features with iOS 7–Dr. Z will write about this from time to time.

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

Apple has made a big announcement last week and a lot of new things are in it..Dr. Z will try to break this down.

First of all..lts break things down a bit…

We have the hardware–which is the iPad and the iPhone.

Then we have the operating system which controls everything on the iPad and the iPhone–its called iOS 7.

Then we have apps which run different things on the iPad and the iPhone.

The hardware cannot run without the operating system.

The apps won’t work without the operating system.

We need 3 things to make everything work on the iPad and iPhone–hardware, operating system and apps.

Apple announced two new models of the iPhone-iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c which is the hardware. Apple did not announce any new models of the iPad

Apple also announced a new version of the operating system called iOS 7. It runs on the iPad and the iPhone–it makes everything look a bit different and prettier. Some functions have changed.

Because iOS 7 looks a bit different, some apps have changed to make it look like iOS 7.

When you upgrade to iOS 7, be sure to back up everything on the iCloud before you back up because sometimes some things can go wrong.

The upgrade to iOS 7 takes about 90 minutes to 2 hours.

iOS 7 works on older versions of the iPhone and iPad. Some of the nice things in iOS 7 may not work on the older versions, but overall it will run just fine.

Dr. Z likes iOS 7–it’s a cool operating system and much cleaner and easier to read.

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