{"id":2366,"date":"2014-04-08T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2014-04-08T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:14:52","slug":"identifying-objects-with-taptapsee-4814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Objects with TapTapsee, 4\/8\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Identifying Objects with TapTapsee<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TapTapSee is a handy app which identifies objects via the iPhone camera.\u00a0 It\u2019s simple.\u00a0 Start the app, wait for the auto-focus sound to let you know a picture is ready and then click that \u201cTake Picture\u201d button.\u00a0 After a short time, a brief description of the object in the picture is provided.\u00a0 In a quick test, a picture of my keyboard was correctly identified as \u201cBlack Keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some users report having TapTapSee read useful information, such as, \u201cThermostat set to 60 Degrees.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a great tool.\u00a0 Several months back TapTapSee announced they were moving to subscription model for their service.\u00a0 After all, either the computing power or the human assist has got to be paid for somehow.\u00a0 Now that the hubbub has quieted down and the income stream is well established, TapTapSee has made news yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Today, an Android version of <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.msearcher.taptapsee.android\">TapTapSee <\/a>was announced.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on the Google Play Store as we speak.\u00a0 Most of the service runs in the cloud, so there are likely to be few problems or differences based on the platform.\u00a0 There are few accessibility apps available for Android, so it\u2019s good to see TapTapSee providing Android users with this excellent solution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2366\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying Objects with TapTapsee Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP TapTapSee is a handy app which identifies objects via the iPhone camera.\u00a0 It\u2019s simple.\u00a0 Start the app, wait for the auto-focus sound to let you know a picture is ready and then click that \u201cTake Picture\u201d button.\u00a0 After a short time, a brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,14,5,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}