Practical Podcasting: An Introduction to our Practical Podcasting Series

Welcome to the introduction of a Brand new series Called Practical Podcasting: Capturing a Thought Bubble on Audio. In this series we will cover a large number of topics surrounding the art of Podcasting and recording Audio. In this introduction Jeff Thompson, from the blind Abilities Team, lists the topics and the wide range of areas that make a Podcast what it is. Each episode in this continuing series will highlight a specific hardware,...

Part 2: The Process of Creating a Podcast

Blind Abilities Presents Part 2 - The Process Of Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane takes us through more editing of the interview: eliminating silences, ums, ahs and other unwanted portions of the interview. He then splits the track into two mono tracks and performs De-noising of some unwanted background noise on Erica’s track. This Part includes two Chapters in the series: * Chapter 3 - Continuing The Editing Process, and * chapter 4 - splitting...

School of Piano Tuning and Technology For the Blind

Jeff Thompson interviews Leal Sylvester a Piano Tuner Specialist at the ACB Convention in Minneapolis, MN and follows up with an interview with the Director of the School of Piano tuning and Technology for the Blind, Don Mitchel. Listen and find out more about how one can become a business owner of their own Piano Tuning Service. You can contact the School of Piano tuning and Technology for the Blind on the web at or email...

Know Your Money – An Interview with the Bureau of Engraving

Blind Abilities Presents an interview with Leonard Olijar, Director, Bureau Of Engraving & Printing, an agency of the U.S. Treasury Department responsible for the printing and safeguarding of the United States currency. Mr. Olijar talks about the Currency Reader Program featuring the iBill Money Reader, the EyeNote and IDEAL Money Reader smart phones apps available free in the App Store and Google Play Store respectively. He also offers an...

Welcome Cheryl Spencer: NFB16 Convention update – the Spencer Report

Pete Lane introduces a new BlindAbilities Team member, Cheryl spencer. Cheryl brings her NFB Convention Blog entitled: spencer’s spotlight. Check out Cheryl’s recurring article in the monthly digital newsletter, The Blind Perspective, at TheblindPerspective.org Stay tuned for more from Cheryl and her Convention Blog, and good luck to Rus Davis as he competes in the NFB Convention Talent Show! Happy July 4th Holiday to all in the US! Here are...

Win The Shure MV88 Microphone from BlindAbilities.com

Sign up for the Blind Abilities Newsletter on BlindAbilities.com or fill out your name and email at our Blind Abilities booth #41 at the ACB convention in Minneapolis July 1 through July 6 and you will have a chance to win the Shure MV88 Microphone. This podcast that follows the announcement of this opportunity was previously released and we decided to include it with this wonderful chance to win. #ACB16 #NFB16

33% Off KNFB Reader: Go Mobile and Make the Print Yours

Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson asked members of the community what they liked about the award winning and life changing technology of the KNFB App. With such a positive response we thought we had to share. Join members of the Jacksonville iAccess group and members of the blind abilities community as Pete and Jeff talk KNFB Reader. You can get the KNFB Reader from the App Store for IOS and in the Google Play for Android. Follow Blind Abilities on...

Blind Scooter Guy: How To Eat An Elephant Called Blindness

Blind Abilities Presents: Christopher Venter, A.K.A. Blind Scooter Guy. Christopher journeyed from Cape Town South Africa to Dublin Ireland on a scooter motorcycle, one of the smaller styles of cycles and traveled over 20,000 miles just to get a Guinness beer, well, kind of. Christopher contracted a virus that eventually took his eyesight. And Over the next two years Christopher did not stop pursuing the life he always dreamed of... being a...