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In this podcast Alex quickly demos foobar2000 preview for iOS. Some workarounds to its shortcomings and accessibility regarding the playback screen are also explained. Foobar2000 is an audio player for the Microsoft Windows platform. Recently, there has been much effort put into making this amazing player available for other platforms such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices.

Joining Jessica this week is Alex and Tamas with their Cool Picks: foobar2000 on iOS Moovit for iOS Moovit for Android Stalking the Shadows: Ancient Destiny, Book 1 | BJ Edwards on Audible

Jessica Rickards makes her first appearance as host of VIP. Joining Jessica this week is Alex and Tamas with their impressions on Apple’s latest announcements. 1: Apple unveils watchOS 3 with major app speed improvements 2: Apple announces tvOS improvements including dark mode, Live Tune In 3: Apple announces macOS Sierra at WWDC with Apple Pay, Auto Unlock, Universal Clipboard 4: Apple Pay comes to the Mac using iPhone or Apple Watch 5: iOS 10 coming this fall, developer beta available now and public beta in July 6: Apple announces Swift Playgrounds for iPad at WWDC, public release in fall 7: Apple announces all-new Music app with lyrics support coming with iOS 10 8: In iOS 10, Photos adds Map view, automatic face recognition and object recognition 9: Apple announces Siri will integrate with third-party apps in iOS 10 10: Apple unveils iOS 10 at WWDC 2016, new lock screen, Siri SDK, much more Cool Picks: foobar2000 on iOS Moovit for iOS Moovit for Android Stalking the Shadows: Ancient Destiny, Book 1 | BJ Edwards on Audible

Join Jessica as she revisits Kevin Shaw, founder of Zagga TV. Find out how you, the listener, can be part of an amazing opportunity to help make the vision of entertainment for all a reality. Listen to a demonstration of the Zagga TV website at the end of the interview Watch a Ted Talks featuring Zagga TV Get a 2 month free trial of Zagga TV. Take advantage of a special CoolBlindTech listener discount when you sign up today!

In this podcast Leo explains some of the reasons why he switched from the iPhone 6s to the iPhone SE.

Alex begins a little tutorial on Audacity for Windows using NVDA. He goes through some preferences that are useful and then shows off the interface a bit. Future episodes in this series will cover real editing: Selection, cutting and pasting, zooming in and out to really hone in on a bit of audio you wish to manipulate. Stay tuned!

Discovering and promoting new music is something that Has become easier than ever before with SoundCloud,. In this podcast, Justin takes us through how to do just that. He proceeds to look at his music stream, shamelessly promote some of his own music, and explain what playlists and radio stations are, as well as how to use them.

In part 4 of REAPER, we record a simple multi-track music project using VST plugins, MIDI drums, guitar amp simulators and some equalizers. Remember that in Part 3, we created our tracks and made a guitar folder to make things simpler to quickly navigate the tracks in your project. In Part 4, we proceed to record two guitar tracks as well as a bass track. After, we briefly learn about the master track and limiters. Recabinet and Thermionik An excellent freeware master limiter Superior Drummer PS: This episode is noticeably quieter than previous ones. This is because of the nature of demonstrating effects. I didn't want to degrade the properties of a limiter and other things.

Apple's shake to undo feature allows the user to shake the iOS device and then press a button if they want an action to be undone. The only problem with this however, is that this feature has a tendency to be activated by accident, causing much annoyance and frustration. As a result, Justin shows us how to turn this feature off in the settings app.

Part 3 is finally here. Alex shows some preliminary configuration options for setting up REAPER to record music on Windows. This includes per-project media folders and using the metronome. He also quickly blabs about MIDI devices. Stay tuned for part 4 where we record an actual bit of music. PS: A vocal mixing episode is in the future, as well as basic external effect mixing and processing. All from a hard rock and metal musician prospective, of course. :)

Join the Cool Blind Tech team as Alex, Leo and Tomi discuss the latest Cool Picks: Andrea Electronics 3D Surround Sound Recording Phones Raspberry Pi 3 Thermionik ñ Professional Native Amp Modeling

Join the Cool Blind Tech team this week as Alex, Leo and Tomi discuss the latest rumblings on WWDC and the recently hosted third annual NVDACon. The team also shares their opinions on some beneficial updates to Netflix, Facebook Messenger and Google Music. Top these items off with this week's Cool Picks and you definitely have one podcast you don't want to miss! Cool Picks: Andrea Electronics 3D Surround Sound Recording Phones Raspberry Pi 3 Thermionik ñ Professional Native Amp Modeling

In this episode Noah demonstrates the Scrip Talk. He covers the Scrip Ability program and Scrip Braille services.

In this episode, Justin is joined by Leo and Jessica, as they go through interesting Cool Picks: Roger Caption Bot Microsoft Excel for iOS