blog problems

I’m testing out my ability to run my computer (PC) hands-free. I find I can run Kindle fairly well. I have switched from iBooks to only Kindle books now. The screen on my PC is much easier to read than on my iPad. Other applications are not so easy. The Facebook application is very strange. It starts out that I can page down but if I go to any link and view the connection I lose my voice recognition capability.

Closing Facebook and reopening it does not help. Rebooting my computer does but then I have to reenter the access code and then reload the voice recognition and starting over with Facebook. Not very easy. Sometimes it’s too difficult and so I cannot keep going. Also when in the Facebook app the voice recognition just quits working. Sometimes everything quits working in the Facebook app and I cannot even use the arrow keys which are difficult for me to run. Very maddening.

I am making this post in Microsoft Word. The voice recognition works pretty well. Sometimes I cannot correct things without manually doing them. Again this is a hardship for me and sometimes are not able to do. I’m finding computers very frustrating. The voice recognition software does not work very well with Windows 8. It is not really compatible with Windows a applications. I can move the mouse and click it but it is very slow. Sometimes I say mouseclick and it hears “mouse grid” which jumps to the old windows seven window and I have to start over. I’m very disappointed in the voice recognition and it’s current capabilities.

Another gripe I have is that Apple included commercial free iTunes radio when you purchased filesharing capability between devices. I listen to this every day. Now when I go to it and goes to a pop up that makes me purchase Apple music to get iTunes radio. They want 9.99 a month for this service. This is very annoying since I feel like I already purchased this. Hundred and $120 a year is just too much. I ended up downloading I heart radio. I now listen to Kiss Country. I used to listen to this when I worked. It’s not commercial free but it is free. A former coworker had told me she listens to it on her phone.

To put this on my blog I create it in Word, copy everything, manually open my blog and then paste it into my blog. It is a little difficult but I find I can do it if I try hard enough. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to coordinate the applications and running my mouse with the knuckle of my small finger. Since my hand is curled up by then but it is the only way to run the mouse. I keep trying to run it by voice but I think that will take much more practice.