Interview with George Wurtzel. George has traveled , created businesses, lived, explored and has done many of activities that most people only dream of doing. From the Olympics, Cross Country Skiing across Northern Europe, starting his own businesses, teaching, George has done most anything he set his mind to doing. Listen along as George takes us on a journey, his life and his philosophy on life.
Blind Abilities presents Champions In Accessibilities. This episode produced by Pete Lane features the National Center For Accessible Media, NCAM. NCAM pioneered audio description technology in the TV arena and then moved into movie Theaters. Bryan Gould discusses the history of audio description and its evolution across various media and into other venues such as museums, and theme parks, including an in depth discussion of the hand held...
With all the new branding and changes in the AudioBoom Headquarters over the last 6 months the AudioBoom Team has just reached out to the Blind/Visually Impaired community to develop a Beta Testing Team. This will allow the AudioBoom Team to ensure that all end-users of the AudioBoom app have a positive experience with usability, accessibility and functionality.. This could be a new beginning for AudioBoom and the Blindness community after all...
Pete Lane presents the 5th and final edition in his series on GarageBand Version 6.0.5 on the Mac. Pete demonstrates how to create ringtones using a couple of songs from his iTunes library. Special thanks to Eric Clapton and Derrick & The Dominos for use of Layla, and to Boz Scaggs for his blues masterpiece, runnin' Blue. Pete also discusses how to create a ring tone from one of the hundreds of Apple loops offered in Version 6.0.5 of...
RaqiG gives us an over view of her experience at the Apple Store trying on various watches and bands. The experience was nothing like she expected and really gave her the information she actually wanted. How the watch felt on her wrist. Take a listen to RaqiG as she gives a thorough description of her hands-on experience. Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email...
Pete Lane presents the third edition in his GarageBand Demo series on the Mac. This episode features basic editing of an audio project: use of audio regions and split commands. This 45 minutes demo shows how GarageBand (Version 6.0.5) can serve as an editing program for a voice recording or podcast. Pete will release two more Volumes on Version 6.0.5 in which he shows how to apply basic FX to the project and how to upload it to iTunes. His...
Pete Lane presents Volume 4 of his GarageBand Demo series for the Mac, in which he demonstrates how to access effects in GarageBand Version 6.0.5 . Pete reviews several effects including Dynamic Compression and Echo and applies them to the voice track on the audio project he created in Volumes 2 and 3 of the series. He then demonstrates how to upload the project to iTunes. In the final edition, Volume 5 Pete will create Ringtones and...
Pete Lane presents the second edition of the GarageBand Demo series with a run through of setting up and recording a basic voice recording with GarageBand on the Mac. Pete reviews microphone set up, audio input and output sources, grabs an Intro Loop from the GarageBand Loop Browser, records a simple voice track and closes out with another loop from the library. Hopefully this will give interested listeners a basis from which they can...
Pete Lane presents another BAD Cast Quick Hit with the first in his series of demos of Garageband for the Mac. This episode covers the basic screen layout, with future volumes focusing on basic voice and multi-track recording using loops and other media. Hopefully this will offer some clarification for beginners who wish to get started using Garageband on their Mac. #BlindAbilities #BadCast #A11Y Devices #Garageband #Voiceover #Accessibility...