On 9/17/23 7:55 AM, Bradley wrote:

A lot of time lately I'm waiting around in doctor waiting rooms.

Everyone else, 'specially the kids, is on their phone.
But I don't know what to do with the phone.

No way am I playing useless games or reading teeeeeeny tiny print.
And I'm not about to watch my phone using it as a tiny YouTube TV.
Nor do I have enough people to text & call to keep me busy enough.

How about Usenet? When I'm out killing time I often read/post from my phone
as I'm doing now. Great time killer...

Maybe the Windows newsgroup spelling app has been ported to Android?

With the Windows spelling app (Herbert Kleebauer), every time you see a >redsquiggle, you copy the fixed-spelling & type "Win+R spell" to paste the >corrected spelling into your list of test words to practice later.

Later, when you have time (which you never do when you're at home), you
would type "Win+R spellit" which would randomly speak the words and give
you three chances to fix them.

If you fix them, it removes the word from the list.
If you still get it wrong, it adds the word in the list (which means the
word pops up even more frequently as it's in there twice or three times).

Does a port of this Herbert Kleebauer Windows app yet exist for Android?

I see you're using Tbird. It has a built in spell checker. I use it often.
Unfortunately this Android newsreader I'm using doesn't so it let's me hang
out.

Butt sorrry i don't hav a clu abut ur reel queery...

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On 9/17/2023 5:48 PM, Bradley wrote:

On 9/17/2023 4:31 PM, AJL wrote:

No way am I playing useless games or reading teeeeeeny tiny
print. And I'm not about to watch my phone using it as a tiny
YouTube TV. Nor do I have enough people to text & call to keep me
busy enough.

How about Usenet?

I have a web link to http://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android

Google Groups seems to have a bad reputation on Usenet. And personally I
prefer to use a more anonymous server anyway. (I use the paid version of
the PhoNews Usenet newsreader on my phone.)

but the text is really too small to make reading Usenet news fun.

My phone has a 6.4" screen so my text is small too. But I have a good
set of trifocals and fortunately have no problem with the text.

When I'm out killing time I often read/post from my phone as I'm
doing now. Great time killer...

Sometimes I organize my photo album - but how many times can you do
that?

I also read the regular news as a time killer. And sometimes my ebooks...

Does a port of this Herbert Kleebauer Windows app yet exist for
Android?

I see you're using Tbird. It has a built in spell checker. I use
it often. Unfortunately this Android newsreader I'm using doesn't
so it let's me hang out.

It's not the spell checker. It's a spell tester.

Ah. Had never heard of that before.

It was written for Windows on the alt.msdos.batch newsgroup years
ago.

Butt sorrry i don't hav a clu abut ur reel queery...

The way it works with Windows (and the way it would work with
Android) is

1. Every time you misspell a word on Windows, you save it to a file.
2. You copy that file over to Android as a simple normal text file.
3. You run the desired Android program which speaks the word three
times.

You're going to have your phone speaking spelling words to you while
you're waiting in your doctor's office??

4. Each time you get a chance to type in the correct spelling (or
not).

So then you do have to see the phone's keyboard...

If you type the correct spelling within three attempts, it's
removed. If you don't - it's added back (so the worst offenders get repeated).

Think I'll just stick to a spell checker... :-\

This already exists on Windows. The question is whether it's ported
to Android.

Good luck on finding it.

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On 9/17/2023 9:41 PM, Bradley wrote:

On 9/17/2023 10:56 PM, AJL wrote:

I have a web link to
http://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android

Google Groups seems to have a bad reputation on Usenet. And
personally I prefer to use a more anonymous server anyway. (I use
the paid version of the PhoNews Usenet newsreader on my phone.)

It has nothing whatsoever to do with Google Groups.

groups.google.com is Google Groups.

It's a web page just like any other web page. Only it's a read-only searchable site for the Android newsgroup archives. Nothing more than
that.

You can also post from that page if signed in. That's what the little
reply arrow is for. And you could use it to post from your phone...

Again - it has absolutely nothing to do with Google Groups (AFAIK).

Try Googling 'Google Groups'. You get groups.google.com/

but the text is really too small to make reading Usenet news
fun.

My phone has a 6.4" screen so my text is small too. But I have a
good set of trifocals and fortunately have no problem with the
text.

That's why I want the phone to SPEAK to me the words over the
headset. I'd plug my headset into the phone so it wouldn't bother
anyone else.

Ah. Headset. Didn't think about that. I had this picture of your
spelling words broadcasting throughout the waiting room... 8-O

Sometimes I organize my photo album - but how many times can you
do that?

I also read the regular news as a time killer. And sometimes my
ebooks.

Do you know of an ebook reader that will SPEAK the ebooks for me?
Maybe from a PDF or a Mobi or an EPUB file?

I buy my ebooks from both Kindle and Google. Both of their apps will electronically read for you. But their computer voice gets boring IMO. I
would just spend the extra money for the audio book if you want quality listening...

Speaking an ebook would be useful as I wouldn't need to see
anything.

Give it a try. I just do eyeball reading so have little experience with electronic readers. I tried it a few times but when my mind wandered as
it often does and the book keeps going and I forgot where I am. With
eyeball reading my mind keeps circling the same sentence while it
wanders so I don't lose my place...

It's not the spell checker. It's a spell tester.

Ah. Had never heard of that before.

Yeah. It contains a list of words you have misspelled in the past.
Then it quizzes you on those words, verbally - so you can't cheat.

Sounds like that would make my brain hurt...

You're going to have your phone speaking spelling words to you
while you're waiting in your doctor's office??

Sure. Headphones have been around for years. You plug them in and
they just work.

Many new phones don't have headphone holes anymore. You're gonna have to
go wireless eventually...

4. Each time you get a chance to type in the correct spelling
(or not).

So then you do have to see the phone's keyboard...

Yes. There's no way around typing the word into the app. Although I
guess a "fancy" app would accept you saying the letters.

If you type the correct spelling within three attempts, it's
removed. If you don't - it's added back (so the worst offenders
get repeated).

Think I'll just stick to a spell checker... :-\

This is a spell learner. Not a spell checker. You practice spelling
only the words you need to spell.

Everyone would have a different list of words _they_ often misspell.

This already exists on Windows. The question is whether it's
ported to Android.

Good luck on finding it.

It was written on the alt.msdos.batch newsgroup so maybe it can be
written on the android newsgroup too. It doesn't hurt to ask if it
has been done.

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Am 18.09.23 um 04:56 schrieb AJL:

Google Groups seems to have a bad reputation on Usenet. And personally I prefer to use a more anonymous server anyway. (I use the paid version of
the PhoNews Usenet newsreader on my phone.)

Most regulars killfile postings from the Google-server. I do too.
Same applies to anonymous servers like dizum, aioe, paganini, neodome,
mixmin, i2pn2.org and the like.

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Alea iacta est

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