Month: December 2022

Apple’s AirPods Pro may be an alternative for inexpensive hearing aids

Dan Uff December 31, 2022 1

With everything going up in price from basic food to medical supplies, persons with disabilities and the hearing impairments may be in a situation where even basic necessities maybe too expensive for some, causing their quality of life to be less than what they deserve.

But hope maybe just a visit to an Apple Store or by going to https://www.apple.com/

In an experiment by doctors in Taiwan, they found that a pair of Apple's AirPod Pros can be just as good as an expensive pair of hearing aid for the hearing impaired, and be a lot more affordable for almost anyone that's already in the Apple ecosystem.

It maybe both presumptuous and too early to say if the Apple Device could indeed replace a more expensive set of hearing aids, but an experiment by the doctors seem to show promising results.

For more information about this topic, please go to this ZDNet.com article.

How to measure someone’s height with an iPhone

Dan Uff December 30, 2022 8

Did you know that you could measure someone's height with your iPhone?

Here's how:

Open the “Measure” app on iPhone
Make sure the person you are measuring the height for is fully visible on the screen, and point the camera at that person, waiting a moment while they are completely in frame
Soon a line will show over the top of the persons head with the height measurement shown

You can take a photo of the persons height measurement if you’d like to as well by hitting the camera button.

Is TikTok on the way OUT of the U.S.?

Dan Uff December 28, 2022 1

The Biden Administration is considering banning the popular social media platform, TikTok.

The reasons are concerning who is running the social media platform, and how user's information is being saved and used by the Chinese Government. Major Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies as well as some "mom and pop businesses" have banned the social media platform from their devices and internal networks.

The Trump Administration also raised security concerns, but plans to ban the social media platform were dropped after pushback from its current users. Now, the Biden Administration has picked up the topic yet again, and this time it looks like something maybe done unless the platform sells all or part of its platform to a U.S. based company - which is highly unlikely.

So if you're on TikTok, and are generating income from it it would be a good idea for you to either have a backup plan or get off the social media platform altogether as it could be banned in just days, weeks, or even months.