AppleVis Podcast

In this podcast, David Woodbridge demonstrates how to record the screen and audio output of your iOS device by connecting it to your Mac and using QuickTime.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge demonstrates that no matter how experienced a Mac user you are, there’s always likely to be something new for you to learn or discover. To prove the point, David shows us how to use the VoiceOver Trackpad Commander to easily access the Extras Menu. This is something that until recently he didn’t think was possible .

Voice Dream Reader was recently voted the Best Mainstream iOS App of 2014 in the AppleVis Golden Apple Awards. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, this powerful reading tool can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus a synchronized combination of both. Voice Dream Reader supports reading PDF and Word documents, DRM-free EPUB and DAISY eBooks, Web pages and more. It's directly integrated with Bookshare, Dropbox, G-Drive, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg. In this podcast, Alex Hall walks us through the features and controls of this powerful reading tool. Voice Dream Reader is available for $9.99 from the iTunes App Store.

In this twenty-fifth episode of the AppleVis Extra, AnonyMouse, Robert Carter, Lisa Salinger, Jeff Thompson, and Randy Rusnak discuss their favorite iOS apps--particularly those which occupy prime real estate on their respective home screens.

In this podcast, Nikola shows us how to create customized vibration patterns which can then be used as your default alert or assigned to specific contacts.

In this podcast, Scott Davert walks us through the process of sending somebody an iTunes Gift Card directly from an iOS device. A very timely tip for those of us who don’t want to brave the stores looking for gifts during the Holiday season … or have simply left things too late. As Scott, shows, not only is the process simple, but you can even choose when your Gift Card will be delivered to the recipient.

In this podcast, Curtis Jackson gives us a demonstration of Catch52, a new iOS game that challenges your reflexes and concentration. Catch 52 drops playing cards from the top of the screen and you must catch all of either the picture cards or all the cards of a named suit by pressing the right screen button or tap the left screen to reject all the other cards. You can maximize your score by catching the required cards as close to the bottom of the screen as possible and rejecting the other cards as quickly as possible. Catch52 is a 99 cents download from the iTunes App Store.

In this podcast, Scott Howell gives a review of the Soen Transit XS Bluetooth speaker. This Bluetooth speaker was a KickStarter project and will be available to purchase within the next few months. The speaker is simple to use, provides a battery indicator on the status menu of the iOS device, and is very well designed. More information can be found at http://www.soenaudio.com Scott wishes to make one minor correction on something that he said during his review - the speaker has a micro USB port, not a mini.

In the first of this new podcast series, David Griffith demonstrates easy music location and playing in iTunes 12. He then walks us through how to setup column browser to achieve this.

In the fourth of his series of podcasts looking at the Finder on Mac OS X, David Griffith shows us how to use Folder Actions to create Download alerts. This is demonstrated by downloading from the RNIB Talking Newspaper and Magazine service.

In this podcast, AnonyMouse gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Bored-At-Work Blackjack for iOS. Created by the authors of Blindfold Racer, Blindfold Sudoku and Blindfold Cryptogram, this game is designed for rapid audio play, and is fully accessible as it is self-voicing. Bored-At-Work Blackjack is a free download from the iTunes App Store.

Update: Since recordomg, the name of this app has been changed from Bored-At-Work Blackjack to Blindfold Blackjack. In this podcast, AnonyMouse gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Blindfold Blackjack for iOS. Created by the authors of Blindfold Racer, Blindfold Sudoku and Blindfold Cryptogram, this game is designed for rapid audio play, and is fully accessible as it is self-voicing. Blindfold Blackjack is a free download from the iTunes App Store.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge gives us a demonstration of FingerKey, an app that enables you to unlock your Mac without having to type your password every time. If you own a TouchID compatible device, use it to authenticate and unlock your computer safely and conveniently. FingerKey is available from the iTunes App Store for $1.99.

In the third of his series of podcasts looking at the Spotlight Finder on Mac OS X, David Griffith discusses how to search within a folder location and shares some strategies for searching by file type without file names and using Finder Sort parameters to further assist with searching by file types.

In the second of his series of podcasts looking at the Spotlight Finder on Mac OS X, David Griffith discusses how to locate music using tag file information. In the second half, he covers searching by filename under different document format types.