iPhone negativity

anonymousNetUser wrote:
> Carl wrote:
>> anonymousNetUser wrote:
>>> 4phun wrote:
>>>> On Jul 15, 10:46 am, anonymousNetUser <mic...@disney.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Changing the text size in the e-mail app doesn't help with all the
>>>>> other apps, nor with the home screen--which you have to use to get
>>>>> to the mail app.
>>>> OK
>>>> Hold down the mail icon until it wobbles.
>>>> Drag it off screen to teh right to a new screen.
>>>>
>>>> Keep doing this until it is on a screen all by itself and then
>>>> press the HOME button to lock it in place.
>>>>
>>>> To use just flip all the screens along until you find the one with
>>>> only one icon on it.
>>>>
>>>> Or you could merely move the icon to eitehr the extreme right or
>>>> left of the bottom task bar so you could locate Mail instantly
>>>> from any screen.
>>>>
>>>> When sending mail to yourself or notes to your self from your PC -
>>>> use RTF or HTML select all text and bump it up to 18 or more. You
>>>> can get the stuff so large a person sitting across the room could
>>>> read it on that little screen.
>>>>
>>> Nice workaround, but it only helps with mail. What about maps? I'd
>>> like to use that application too. But once again, the icon is so
>>> small, I sometimes can't see it and open something else instead.
>>> Once it's open and I can zoom in, it's fine.
>>>
>>> There's more than enough room on this screen to increase the size of
>>> the icons and text. Okay, maybe you're stuck with only three icons
>>> or even two across instead of four, but it's doable. I guess all
>>> those designers and programmers are too young to notice this. You'd
>>> think that Steve was getting a little long in the tooth and would
>>> have this same complaint, but maybe he's rich enough to buy some
>>> bionic eyes.
>> Have you considered an eye exam and eyeglasses? Or do you have an eye
>> condition that precludes glasses from working well?
>
> I'm old, not dumb.
>
> Yes, I get new glasses every year. And I still have a hard time, even
> with reading glasses, seeing small print.
>
> It's mostly just age; the eyes don't change focus as fast. So if I'm
> working and focused on a computer monitor and the phone rings, I can't
> adjust focus fast enough to see who's calling. The eye's want to stay
> focused on the computer monitor about 3 feet away, but my arms are
> only about 2 ft long. So even holding the phone at arm's length
> doesn't help much.
>
A fair answer. I am in the optical business so was just wondering. Just so
you know, there is a lens that will allow you to focus almost instantly at
both distances. My favorite lens solution to this problem is the Sola
Access. Ask your local optician/optometrist about it. If they don't know, go
somewhere else until you find someone who does. Honestly, if they are not
familiar with this lens, they are not, imo, people at the top of their game.
I wear them and love them.

Read this article (which I had nothing to do with: I just found it for you
with a google search):
http://www.compukiss.com/reviews/sola-access-lens.html

You may thank me later.

Carl wrote:
> anonymousNetUser wrote:
>> Carl wrote:
>>> Have you considered an eye exam and eyeglasses? Or do you have an eye
>>> condition that precludes glasses from working well?
>> I'm old, not dumb.
>>
>> Yes, I get new glasses every year. And I still have a hard time, even
>> with reading glasses, seeing small print.
>>
>> It's mostly just age; the eyes don't change focus as fast. So if I'm
>> working and focused on a computer monitor and the phone rings, I can't
>> adjust focus fast enough to see who's calling. The eye's want to stay
>> focused on the computer monitor about 3 feet away, but my arms are
>> only about 2 ft long. So even holding the phone at arm's length
>> doesn't help much.
>>
> A fair answer. I am in the optical business so was just wondering. Just so
> you know, there is a lens that will allow you to focus almost instantly at
> both distances. My favorite lens solution to this problem is the Sola
> Access. Ask your local optician/optometrist about it. If they don't know, go
> somewhere else until you find someone who does. Honestly, if they are not
> familiar with this lens, they are not, imo, people at the top of their game.
> I wear them and love them.
>
> Read this article (which I had nothing to do with: I just found it for you
> with a google search):
> http://www.compukiss.com/reviews/sola-access-lens.html
>
> You may thank me later.

Ah. Carl Zeiss... if anyone can solve this problem, they can. I love the
Zeiss lenses in my two Leica cameras (another product that "just works
right").

I'll ask my optician about this the next time I get glasses. Due to go
for my annual exam in a month or so.

"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in news:48800ca9$0$7337
$607ed4bc@cv.net:

> http://www.compukiss.com/reviews/sola-access-lens.html

Someone needs to fix the Zeiss dealer search engine. I put in my address
to look for a "dispenser" and it found 5 locations INSIDE THE TRAILER PARK!

None of my redneck neighbors knows anything about optometry. They think
glasses come from Dollar General or Walmart....(c;

So, how many hundred dollars are these Sola lenses....I mean for the
pair...

Larry wrote:
> "Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in news:48800ca9$0$7337
> $607ed4bc@cv.net:
>
>> http://www.compukiss.com/reviews/sola-access-lens.html
>
> Someone needs to fix the Zeiss dealer search engine. I put in my
> address to look for a "dispenser" and it found 5 locations INSIDE THE
> TRAILER PARK!
>
> None of my redneck neighbors knows anything about optometry. They
> think glasses come from Dollar General or Walmart....(c;
>
> So, how many hundred dollars are these Sola lenses....I mean for the
> pair...
>
They are actually a form of what is known as "progressive multifocals", or
to some, "invisible bifocals". What they've done is eliminate the DISTANCE
part (and thereby getting rid of the inherent problems associated with
having that in the lens too) and made it just an INTERMEDIATE (ie. computer)
lens combined with a NEAR (ie. reading) section at the bottom. By
eliminating the distance part, this lens appears to avoid both the
peripheral distortions associated often with progressive multifocals and the
narrow midrange section associated with progressive multifocals as well. As
well, the transition from intermediate to near seems more seamless.

We sell them relatively cheaply at, I believe, $129 or $139 per PAIR (not
per lens Larry). I would speculate that they they may be more elsewhere, as
they are worth it, I think. We sell a lot of them, relative to the overall
market, probably because I promote them personally, and I keep them
inexpensive. We have gotten, over the years, a miniscule number of
"failures" with this lens (though there always will be some - part of human
nature, I suppose). But I can almost guarantee that they will eliminate or
reduce anonymous's problem as described.

"Carl" <crothman@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
news:4880bfba$0$7357$607ed4bc@cv.net:

> They are actually a form of what is known as "progressive
> multifocals", or to some, "invisible bifocals". What they've done is
> eliminate the DISTANCE part (and thereby getting rid of the inherent
> problems associated with having that in the lens too) and made it just
> an INTERMEDIATE (ie. computer) lens combined with a NEAR (ie. reading)
> section at the bottom. By eliminating the distance part, this lens
> appears to avoid both the peripheral distortions associated often with
> progressive multifocals and the narrow midrange section associated
> with progressive multifocals as well. As well, the transition from
> intermediate to near seems more seamless.
>
>

Hmm...I'll have to check them out. The big computer screen (28" LCD that
rotates for text in portrait mode) I use 1.5 reading glasses as I'm 62 with
hardened corneas, but luckily equal in both eyes. For the little Nokia
N800 tablet's 4" screen, I swap to a 3.75 reading glasses so I can make the
tiny text on the 800 pixel wide screen big enough to read.

I think I'm going to 4.00 on the next pair. I'll have to find another
source as Walmart has backed off on high power reading glasses to 3.50. I
was just there today looking at them.

I do fine work on electronics with very fine soldering operations that take
a very close lens. I use an electronics worker's magnifier that cost me
plenty for that. It also protects the eyes from the lead smoke pouring out
of the joint and off the iron. I've been breathing lead fumes in this
business since I was 10. It partially explains why I'm crazy.