AppleVis Podcast

In this podcast, Milorad Pejic gives us a demonstration of using the Just Press Record app on an Apple Watch. This simple audio recorder uses iCloud Drive to instantly syncs your recordings across all your devices and is perfect for capturing ideas, thoughts and memos on the go. Just Press Record: Voice and Audio Recorder with Automatic Sync is a US$2.99 download from the iTunes App Store

In this podcast, Thomas Domville looks at some of the changes and improvements which have been made to the popular Dice World app in recent releases. Dice World! Yatzy Farkle Threes Pig Balut & 1-4-24! Free! is a free download from the iTunes App Store

In this podcast, Jonathan Simeone discusses and demonstrates the autosave and versioning features of TextEdit and Mac OS X. These provide the peace of mind of knowing that your work is being automatically saved as you type, and that it’s quick and easy to revery to a previous version of a document.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how it is now possible with the release of watchOS 2 to use Siri to access the Glances on your Apple Watch.

In the second of a series of podcasts looking at file and folder sharing, Splyt shows us how to setup a Mac so that files or folders on it can be accessed from a Windows PC. The previous podcast in this series looked at connecting to a Windows shared folder from a Mac.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how to access the various clock faces available in watchOS 2. He then gives us a closer look at the new time-lapse face, which lets you choose from a selection of time-lapse videos shot over 24 hours in iconic locations around the world.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how in watchOS 2 it is now possible to reply to an email directly from your Apple Watch.

In this podcast, Milorad Pejic demonstrates how to check the battery level of your Apple Watch from the Notification Center of your iPhone.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Apple’s iCloud Drive app which is new in iOS 9. This app makes it easier for you to access and manage the files that you have stored in iCloud Drive.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge demonstrates the nightstand mode added to the Apple Watch in watchOS 2 and shows how to cancel or snooze alarms.

In this podcast. Mahmood Khalil gives us a quick demonstration of Voice - Take Pictures & Have Them Read/Spoken In Many Languages with Fast OCR. . This free iOS app allows you to take a picture of anything that has text on it, and then have that text read to you within a few seconds. The app includes a number of advanced features that you might not expect to find on a free app, such as a book mode, a field of view report, auto-capture, Smart Crop, column detection and reading, document background cleaning, and a lot more. The latest update has added a number of new features and changes, including: Now Voice can detect and read in over 30 languages! Most, if not all, of the VoiceOver incompatibilities have been fixed (including the annoying introduction at the beginning). So, Voice is fully compatible with VoiceOver! Export your detected text! You can now export it as a pdf, png, or txt file, and you can send it to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Email, and many more third party services! Improved field of view report and document detection. iPhone vibrates when four corners are detected. Picking photos from iPhone photo library now is compatible with VoiceOver. Made OCR processing faster. Better automatic photo capture. And other small improvements here and there. The developer has posted more information about this update to the AppleVis Forum, where he is also seeking feedback on this release and suggestions for further improvements.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Scott and Alex sat down with John Panarese of MacForTheBlind.com, who is an Apple-certified OS X instructor. He told us all about how anyone, blind or sighted, can obtain this certification. The only limitation is that the test must be taken in person at an authorized training center; use this page to locate your nearest training center. For more on Apple's certification and training programs, visit training.apple.com.

In this podcast, Ashley B shares a tip that has enabled her students to play the visual card game Magic the Gathering with the help of their iOS devices and the free CamFind app. Even if you don’t want to play this particular game, this tip could be adapted to make other games playable.

In this podcast, Ashley B shares a tip that has enabled her students to play the visual card game Magic the Gathering with the help of their iOS devices and the free CamFind app. Even if you don’t want to play this particular game, this tip could be adapted to make other games playable.

In this podcast, Ashley B gives a demonstration of how a person who is blind can use MyScript Memo to read other people's handwriting on an iOS device. This is particularly useful if you need to communicate with somebody for whom writing is the best or preferred method of communication.