Pete Lane adds this brief offering to the iAccess series. This one deals with the simple, yet sometimes unexplored settings in the Do Not Disturb feature for IOS. Please let Jeff and Pete know of any topics you would like to see added to the iAccess series on BlindAbilities.com, by sending an Email to Support@BlindAbilities.com #Lane7625, #JThompson6835
Jeff and Pete chat with Lisa Salinger, widely known across the blindness community, along with Dan Roberts, Director of MDSupport.org about the LowVizGuide. The Guide is a convenient navigational tool which uses indoor way-finding technology to assist attendees at blindness conventions. This 30 minute conversation covers the gammit from a review of updates and enhancements to the app, to imaginative ideas about possibilities for the app. This...
PeteLane offers a brief demonstration of how to configure an audio block in the AudioHijack program to allow capturing of a microphone and iPhone audio using QuickTime Player on the Mac. If you would be interested in more demonstrations of the AudioHijack program, please let us know by writing to Support@BlindAbilities.com #QuickHit #AudioHijack #Lane7625
MoeLucie brings us another post for the College diaries series. How to choose a Major. Some suggestions and resources to help you broaden and narrow down the choices that can determine your career. You can find more podcasts with a blindness perspective and focused on transitioning from high school to college and the workplace at www.BlindAbilities.com and check out the college category. the Teen Cast is a well rounded selection for transition...
Pete Lane offers two more Special Tips in the iAccess Demo series relating to the Contacts App in IOS. These tips focus on creating and editing contacts from an Email in your Mail App. This podcast also features Chapters which can be easily navigated in some podcast apps, such as DownCast and OverCast, but not yet available in the native Apple Podcast app. Here are those chapter markers if your podcatcher doesn’t feature Chapter navigation: 1....
Jeff Thompson from the BlindAbilitiesPodcast Team: brings us another iAccess Demo’. This demo covers the IOS Text Replacement feature in the Keyboard settings. Do you use a common phrase regularly and want to simplify the typing with just a few keystrokes? Save time and be more efficient with the Text Replacement feature located in your General settings under Keyboard. Check out BlindAbilities on the web at www.BlindAbilities.com, on Twitter,...
Pete Lane presents this the first in the new series offered by the BlindAbilitiesPodcast Team: iAccess Demo's. This 20-minutes demo covers the IOS Contacts app, a critical tool when sending text messages or Emails, or when making a phone call. This podcast is divided by and linked into Chapters for easy navigation on many Podcast apps, such as Downcast and Overcast, but not with the Apple native Podcast app. For your convenience, here are the...
Lucie brings us another episode in the College Diaries Series and talks about her experience with mapping out and finding her classrooms efficiently and successfully. The College Diaries is a Blind Abilities presentation focusing on the real-life experiences that the contributors managed and worked around. Not everything is cut and dry out there in the campus life and this College Diaries series may just give someone a pointer or two that...
Erinn Pwns tells her story from age 18 to 21 as she went from high school to a training school and on to college. She also went abroad learning and working. Below you will find a full text transcription of the podcast. You can follow Erinn @ErinnPwns on both twitter and Audioboom. BA Cast: Erinn Pwns: Making It Happen - Transition from High School to College to Abroad. {Music Intro} Blind Abilities presents Erinn Pwns. Making it happen. Her...
Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson chat with Nichole Sullivan, COO for the G-Technology Group, creators of the Sonar Glasses. These glasses use echo-location technology to detect obstacles when walking. This convenient device has great potential as a tool to compliment the cane or guide dog. # Check out their web site at