dollars, Canadian dollars and Euros, it can tell you the color of objects. It speaks what it sees using the device's camera. It helps blind people identify labels, signs and currency. A run along the Top of the Rockies Byway looks pretty scary.Ī blind woman contacted us about the free Seeing AI App for iPhone and iPad users. Googling that phrase will reveal a photo slideshow from National Geographic Traveler magazine. Road Trip.' It's almost summer and time to hit the road. A woman in a dowdy sweater, long skirt and glasses takes those off to give a hip rendition of a rock song and wins the TV show Britain's Got Talent. '68 year-old sings 'Highway to Hell'.' Google that for an amazing performance. 'SWL' means 'Screaming with Laughter.' FOMCL is 'Fell off my chair laughing.' (Regular English is on its way out.) 'SMH' means 'Shaking My Head.' 'IKR' is 'I know, right?' '511' means 'too much information.' That's 100 more than 411, the phone number for directory assistance.

Searching 'huge list of texting and online chat abbreviations' will turn up 1,500 abbreviations for texting. Back in days of yore, controlling another computer could be clunky and slow. What struck us most and best about the new AnyDesk program is its speed. A screen message said it was 'offline.' Boy, when you no longer have the machine, that's really offline. From our laptop or phone, the only desktop listed for access was a machine we gave away a year ago. However, we ran into a surprising problem when we tried it. The app is available from the Chrome Web Store.

The code you need before you access another computer is found in the AnyDesk app on that computer.Īnother way to reach a far away computer is with Chrome Remote Desktop from Google. In PowerPoint, we added a slide to our 'History of Entertainment' presentation at the University Club, all as if we had been sitting at our Windows desktop.

After clicking on the AnyDesk icon and typing the secret code, we clicked on familiar icons to browse the Web, edit anything we had written, and play Peggle, our favorite game. It was only in the next room, but in theory it could have been far, far away. On a Chromebook, we used AnyDesk to control our Windows computer. You can use this from any laptop, tablet or smartphone. We used to like TeamViewer, but it got too complicated.

Sometimes you need to access your computer from a galaxy far, far away.

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