Keyboard Ninja: Calculating Variance and Standard Deviation in Excel By MoeLucie

Keyboard Ninja Calculating Variance and Standard Deviation in Excel By MoeLucie @moelucie So, you need to calculate variance and standard deviation in Excel? I am assuming that you are in stats right now. I would not imagine you would want to do these calculations to fulfill something on your bucket list. So Let’s Get It Over With! There are a few ways you can do these calculations. The first is by putting your data set into a column Once...

Keyboard Ninja’s! Discovering the FS Clipboard for Jaws By MoeLucie

By MoeLucie @moelucie Welcome! I am always looking for an easier way to ninja through keyboard commands There are often many ways to do the same thing but, sometimes there is a quicker way and easier to remember. Have you ever found yourself pressing control c, control v, alt tab, control x, alt tab, control v…? It is like you are doing some type of keyboard Olympics! Not to mention the frustration of alt tabbing back and losing your original...

QuickHit: Audio Memos App on the iPhone

Jeff gives a quick look at the low cost app called Audio Memos. An IOS app that can be set to start recording on opening of the app. With auto normalization and compression available this is not such a bad deal. Check it out.

AmadeusPro: The Basics, Input & output Devices and System Preferences

Pete Lane expands the AP Demo Series with Volumes covering several basic features and tools, beginning with this introduction to setting up Input and Output devices and the menu system for the Amadeus Pro recording and editing program for the Mac. Pete will soon offer three more of The Basics, and will collaborate with Jeff Thompson and Garth Humphries to present some more advanced principles and specialized features in Amadeus Pro. Be sure to...

QuickHit: IOS9 Battery Settings

Jeff Young walks us through a demonstration of the new IOS9 Battery Settings. Find out just what apps are draining your battery whether from you using them or if they are draining the battery in the background! You can find more QuickHits on www.BlindAbilities.com and subscribe to the Blind Abilities podcast. You can find us on Twitter @BlindAbilities and Jeff Young @JeffYoung_

Blindness Awareness Month and a Little about Me

By Melanie Peskoe @MelPeskoe October is Blindness Awareness Month so I thought I'd share a little about myself and how I navigate the sighted world. This might be a little long winded so bear with me. I was born with cataracts and developed glaucoma. I also have a condition called nystagmus which causes my brain to send off signals that make my eyes "dance" back and forth. My right eye is my "good" eye with vision of 20/200 and I only see light...

Behind the Voice: What Makes a Voice Attractive? By MoeLucie

Behind the Voice: What Makes a Voice Attractive? By MoeLucie @moelucie “She was truly beautiful until she spoke”. This is a frequently used phrase amongst our sighted counterparts. Do the blind then use the opposite approach to assess attractiveness? I conducted a recent poll on the Blind Abilities channel to determine this. I received several responses, with varying results leading me to conclude that there is some truth to this statement....

Blind Abilities Presents – Blind Joe, His Journey Continues On The Voice

Join Jeff and Pete as they chat with Blind Joe following his historic debut on the Get to know Joe, his family, his music and the behind-the-scenes experience on the set of the NBC blockbuster, The voice. Join Joe as his journey continues to the next phase of the competition, the Battle Round! Good luck Joe! #BlindAbilities #BlindJoe #Music #TheVoice #GoBlindJoe!2015 season of The voice.

Fashion Insights: Putting an Outfit Together From a Blindness Perspective

Fashion Insights brings to us Episode 4: Putting an Outfit Together. Join @SibbyMeade as she describes her process for putting a typical outfit together with a Blindness perspective. You can find more podcast about Fashion in our Smart Category Personal Care. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store.