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...
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...
Blind Abilities Presents: A new series entitled Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane introduces, the first part in a multi-part series on the process of creating a podcast, from the initial Skype recording, editing and applying effects, working with split tracks, creating an Intro, Outro and inserting transitions. This is a detailed and tightly edited podcast intended for both beginners and others who might want to pick up a tip or two. This initial...
Jeff Thompson interviews the BeSpecular App developers celebrating the new launch in the app Store and the Google Play store. Jeff and Pete also test the app and the additional functions on the new release. Follow @BeSpecular and download the App today!
The Bespecular App just hit the App Store and we are excited for you to give it a try. We have been Beta testing the Bespecular App and now you can find out for yourself how well the team has put together this app for the Blind to use their camera and find out the info through a team of sighted volunteers describing the images you captured. Go to the App Store and download Bespecular today! Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter...
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...
iAccessDemo is typically a demonstration of a native Apple iPhone Application and today we break from the mold to bring you a demonstration of the BossJockJr App from the BossJoc Team. BossJockJr is a Free App from the App Store where you can also find the BossJockStudio App which is the big brother version and sells for $9.99 in the App Store. Jeff Thompson takes you through a recording process and demonstrates a few of the tips and tricks that...
Have you ever been listening to a spell-binding audio book, working your Emails, or listening to the Blind Abilities podcast, and then, to your surprise, here comes a Notification or an Alert? You say to yourself: “Self, I know I have my Do Not disturb set! Why did I get this notification?” Well, Pete reviews a couple of specific settings within the do not disturb feature that just might resolve these annoying interruptions - check out this...
Pete shares Garth Humphries' suggestions for cool, time saving IOS Gestures, that he made in response to Pete's original episode entitled: Fast Five IOS Gestures. Pete demonstrates Garth's recommendations and determines whether or not they actually work! Be sure to tune to see if Garth is correct or totally wrong! You can find Garth's podcast at iBlindTech
Pete does a very quick review of five gestures that save him time and increase his efficiency on his iPhone. check out these Fast Five, and then share a few of your own! The fast Five gestures covered in this Demo are: Two Finger Double tap - AKA The Magic tap Three Finger Swipe Left/Right Three Finger Quadruple tap Three Finger Swipe Up/Down Four Finger Single tap