MS Post – computer aids

Well I have to appreciate the effort my sons put into helping me with my computer. Late last year was no longer able to use my iPad because I could not lift my right hand up to use the touchscreen. I can still read Kindle books at night in my bed. My wife props my right hand up on a pillow and I can touch the lower right corner and it will turn the page. It has to be just so or it won't turn some days I get too tired to even do that.
Late last year my son Dan purchased a system that read my eyes and was supposed to move the mouse. It was quite expensive and he added says here for my son Matt who set up. Two frustrating weeks I determined was just not going to work with my laptop. Is Seymour designed to use with desktop PCs. This seemed like the best solution out there but it turned out to be a bust and I think bat felt pretty bad. His two brothers told him not to worry he just helps eliminate solutions that didn't work.
I remember this software that Iowa vocational rehab and told me about. I tried using it while I was still working but it was too jumpy. I thought with a higher resolution camera in my new computer that perhaps it would work. It took me a long time to find it since I couldn't remember the name. It was called camera mouse. Is put out by Boston University and is free. My son Dan was home in January and tried using that. It really didn't work well because wherever it stopped would just start clicking so would open things I didn't want. In the process of looking at workarounds Dan found a review for a software called Smyle mouse.
There was a 14 day trial and Dan set it up and change the settings so I had to smile to make it clicked. That works a lot better than just clicking wherever it stopped. This software works great and between it and my voice software I am very functional. I can still read my newspaper and Facebook without the voice software will people I hear on the weekends. It is slower but I can get through these. I can also turn the pages on Kindle books with the voice software turned off. If find I read a lot. This software is also give me back the ability to post on my blog as long as I'm here by myself.
My son Dan also set up my voice software to be turned on when I load it. The advantage of this as that I can reboot my computer if I need to. This happens a couple times a week because it just gets stuck. So now I restart it with Smyle mouse. After reboots Dan has found a way to get started again. Here is how it goes – I use Cortana, which is a Windows 10 voice software, to initiate my voice software. The voice software startup and it is ready to go. I use it to move the mouse over the Smyle mouse icon and click it. Then it makes me select the PC's own camera and then loads Smyle mouse. Then I click on the calibration button and calibrate smile mouse. It follows my mouth and then clicks when I make a Smyle motion. Toward the edges and corners of the screen I have to smile multiple times but eventually I can click it. So all in all I have independency with my PC now.