Dropbox Plus Price Increase

I had a bit of a shock today as my bank alerted me my personal account had gone below the theshold set. It wasn’t that I was overdrawn but that it triggered an alert below £50. Well, I looked at what had caused this as it was at the usual level on Wednesday, It was then that I discovered that Dropbox had taken their annual fee which is now £95.98 from £79.00 for Dropbox Plus. That’s an increase of £16.00 and with no warning of the price increase. And I checked my emails to see if I had a message concerning the increase but none was there not even in Junk or Spam.

In order to check your account you need to sign into your Dropbox and go to settings and choose the tab billing and you will see the charges. I looked to see if I could downgrade and Dropbox PLus is the lowest setting. I do use it a fair amount and store some useful files there as it’s handy for video transfer and sending colleagues there to see files, etc.

So I will write an email to ask then to tell their customers of price increases and I am just letting you know so you are not caught out. I have now transfered equivalent funds from a joint to my personal account to cover the price hike.

Episode 6 – Word Prediction

Word Prediction has been around a long time and yet there is no recent research done on it as being an effective for the dyslexic learner to use in classrooms where speech recognition doesn’t really work due to self-consciousness of the pupil. Listen to the above podcast and download it to share with others the benefits of word prediction tools as they are mentioned.

Episode 5 – AT Apps

Bonus week! 2 for 1! Just trying out a different way of delivering the podcast to you. I use Podbeam to create it which sends you to the series link. You can also download it for use of offline I have discovered. I tried an audio player option but it doesn’t really work for me here.

In this epsiode I am looking at AT apps – I just mention a few that I find useful in my own work. Enjoy and please share to those who would find it useful

Episode 4 – Scanning Pens

www.podbean.com/ei/pb-sy2d4-ca7b7b

This weeks episode is dedicated to Scanning Pens. A useful pocket sized hardware that helps pupils read. Useful for dyslexic users.

Free Nativity Symbols

From Widgit to help spread the Christmas cheer!

Widgit Symbols Nativity Sets

Episode 3 – Screenreaders

www.podbean.com/ei/pb-pk8v4-c94e2c

Come and listen to what screen readers are and how they are used

Episode 2 – Speech Recognition

Have a spare 5 mins? Then listen to my latest podcast . Follow the link below to discover the range and power of speech recognition

I published my new episode The smyles’s Podcast, please check it out.
https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-e9tf7-c89a28

Google Business

I am trying to raise my profile on Google Business so if you have been helped, inspired and given support through AAS .

AccessAbility Solutions would love your feedback. Post a review to our profile.
https://g.page/AccessAbility4u/review?gm

workplace by facebook

Facebook have introduced a new chat area. It’s called workplace and as yet I haven’t added in contacts as I work as a sole trader. I just deciding how I can I use it. It may be better to just allow a few people into my workplace. If anyone wants to join in this experiment then please reply to this post and send me your email.

SOLID

What is SOLID? It’s the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee who wants a new kind of web where ideas can be shared freely with no restrictions or rules as such. This is a risk. But when listening to him on Monday evening at the lecture at the Business Design Centre it was clear that Sir Tim thinks we need a mid-course correction for the worldwide web he invented. Hence this idea – SOLID.

So how can I describe SOLID? It feels like a wiki and yet it’s a personal cloud storage area. There are contacts lists, folders, files, documents. A place to store things. A place to share things. Public and private. It feels very, very basic and geeky with areas where code is listed for your site – presumably to share with others what you have built.

And that’s the key! It’s true free content with no control and stripped to its essential component. I still trying to get my head around it so to begin with I using it for a project to do with training in Assistive Technology. Keep everyone posted.

If you want to follow what I am doing then go to:-

https://mylespilling.inrupt.net/