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Today I want to talk to you about a device that I kind of have mixed feelings about, but I think it's really interesting to see it come to fruition. So there is a service Damasi and I talked about it on last week's Technically Working and tomorrow's Technically Working. I give you a little bit more in depth details about my thoughts regarding the BE Pioneer located at B EE Computer. That's Bravoechoecho Computer. @bee.com puter you can get information about the B Pioneer device. You can also learn how to download the app that you can use if you don't want to purchase the device and use your Apple Watch. Now, I've seen mixed information about a subscription at this time. It does not require a subscription that I was able to determine. You can purchase the BE Pioneer device. I'll give you a brief rundown of what it is here shortly for $49 and it shipped to me and I received it within a week of me ordering it. When you download the Bee application, which is only currently available on the iPhone, you're prompted to sign in with Apple, which had me feeling pretty good in the beginning, letting me know that my email address would be anonymized and I was able to delet that email at any point if I wanted to as well. The Bee application will allow you to install a companion app to your Apple Watch, and you have the ability to log into the companion app and start processing of audio around you. The BE Pioneer device means that you don't have to use your Apple Watch, because I'll be honest with you, it does eat through the battery of the Apple Watch quite quickly as well. The Bee Pioneer device is a rounded end rectangle. I guess you would call that an oval with a single button on it. The single button has a couple of purposes. You can press and hold it and speak to your Bee assistant if you press the button once. By default, the Bee Pioneer device will do fact check. I'm not quite sure what fact checking means, I just know that my phone kept saying no relevant factual information found. It took me a little while to realize that you can go into the Bee application and change the setting of a single press of your Action button. Press and hold to toggle the mute and if you want it to be muted or not. Unfortunately, there is no way from the device to accessibly know if the device is recording processing conversations. However, you can go into the Bee application and get the information right there. Double press the action button to trigger the assistant. That is very limited. I see the potential in it, but right now it's probably not the best use of the double press of a button. The last thing that I'll mention about the Bee application, and then we'll talk briefly about the summarized conversations that were available, is you can connect Bee to your Google account, which means you can give Bee access to your Gmail and you can give it access to your calendar when the application is processing your day and providing you a summary. It'll also include pertinent information about emails you might have received and give you the ability to set up reminders so you can remind yourself to reach out to that person. So how does Bee work? If you are unmuted, which means that either your Apple Watch is capturing audio or your Bee Pioneer is capturing audio, then the Bee system will make a summary of your day and provide you that information. It can process conversations, and I learned that you can set it to have a single press of the button to process the conversation versus checking for facts. When you're using the BE Pioneer, you do need to go into your settings and make those changes. The app itself was fairly accessible. There were some wonky labels throughout the app, but it was definitely usable by a voiceover user, and there were some unlabeled buttons. However, those buttons appeared to have been labeled further into the application past those unlabeled buttons. So it's one of those type of applications. I did not fully explore some of the features of the Bee application, but for my initial test for $49, I was surprised with what accessibility was actually included in the device. Now, why aren't I wearing this right now and why isn't it on my wrist? Well, a couple of reasons. Number one, I noticed it was processing conversations that I didn't that it would have heard. And the primary reason isn't because I was concerned about the microphone or whatnot, but it was because I didn't always pull my phone out to check to see if the device was processing conversations or not. I did run it for about 18 hours and I used about 10% after that 18 hours. So I'm fairly confident it'll last for quite A while. But the problem that I ran into was I again didn't want to always take out my phone to see if it was processing audio and there was no haptic vibration to let me know if it was muted or unmuted when I press and held on the button itself. Is B worth it? I would say probably. If you need something to keep track of conversation to dos, it was convenient to raise my left wrist and say, remind me tomorrow at 9am that I need to do this without even having to say a wake word or anything like that, because the bee was always listening.
I found the concept of the B service to be very interesting. Do you have a concern about where it is that the data is going to wish that there was a way for me to quickly determine if it was capturing audio? Maybe when I press the button on the Pioneer device, my phone makes a brief sound or vibration to let me know that this action has been triggered. But for the most part, if you need a tool to help you with keeping track of meetings and you're aware of when it is you're recording, the BBEE computer is a great solution for you. And at this time it's fairly affordable too.
Hey all, Marty here. And have you ever been in a situation where you needed to find out what your WI FI password is? The network that you're on? So the way you do this is you go into settings, then you go into WI Fi and then the network that you're connected to is going to be at the top of the list. You go into that and then you'll see at the very top password, and it's going to have all of those dots in a row and not show you what the password is. If you have voiceover on, you do a single finger double click and it will open that up, you authenticate with whatever your device's password is and then it will show you the password. And there you go, an easy way to figure out what the WI FI password is on the network that you're currently on.
Hi everyone, it's Chris and I have two really short tips for you today. I just wanted to remind you that if you find a button that kind of says something ridiculous in an app that you're in, you can always relabel that button. So I am in my Instant Brand Connect, Instant Pot app. And so on the screen when I bring up a list of recipes, it button search. It has a search button, but to the left of that arrow dot back button, it has this arrow dot back button. And I think that's a little bit too much verbiage. So there's a way that you can definitely label this button to just say back. And so you could do a two finger double tap and hold. Now that is a little bit fiddly for some people because it takes some extra coordination, but it can be done. If you're using a Braille display, you can press the 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 spacebar. So in other words, the contraction for and and the space bar and you get an edit box where you can actually rel. So I'm going to do that now I'm using my braille display key alert, label element, label element. Okay, if I go to the right text field is editing arrow, dot, back insertion point at end. Okay, so I'm actually going to just remove the word period, the period and the arrow delete, delete out to delete, delete, period. So now it just says back, delete back. Okay, so now what if I go to the right clear text button. I don't want to do that. Cancel button. I don't want to do that either. Save button. There is the magic save button. So I'm going to do that save back button. And now it simply says back button. So it's really great to be able to label a button that is unlabeled or that has a ridiculously long label. The other tip that I'm going to share with you is unrelated, but it does have to do with something very handy that I didn't know about that I learned recently. I am on a board and I needed to review someone's application and so it came to me in a PDF. Did you know that if the PDF is an image that was scanned, of course you could recognize it with some OCR programs like I know Voice Dream does that. You could save it to Voice Stream and then it could be recognized there and you could find it. But I find it's hard to locate those PDFs that it that it scans or recognize this for me. So buried down in the share options after I opened the PDF was to recognize with with seeing AI. And I thought that was just great. So I chose that option. It opened the document, it scanned it perfectly or virtually perfectly and then it would allow me to go on to the next page. So when I read the first page, there was the next page button and the next page button. So scanning or recognizing with seeing AI is definitely an option that you can choo. So there are your two tech tips for digital bites.