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Apr 15Triple-click Home extra! The watch adventure
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Welcome to this, the first Triple Click Home extra! Join Doug Langley of speed dots, Raquel Gomez, and our own very excited Hope Povenmire as they visit the apple store and check out the apple watch. Although they find that the demo units are not equipped with voiceover, they are able to provide a description of the watch, its “haptic feedback”, and the available accessories. You will hear the feedback in the form of little pulsing noises, as it twitches near the microphones used to record this adventure. So put on some headphones and join them!
but wait, There’s More!
Once you’ve given this podcast a listen, consider checking out the apple watch accessibility page.
You can also follow Hope on twitter as well as following triple click home on twitter
Remember that this podcast is sponsored by audible, and that you can receive a free book for trying audible by visiting audiblepodcast.com/serotalkThanks for listening!
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Apr 15Triple-click Home Episode 37: Watch for Aliens
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In this episode of Triple-Click Home, the hosts contemplate aliens landing in time square, “The Force,”among other things, and discuss the recent Apple event.
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The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter
Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter
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Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.
Thanks for listening!
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Feb 15Triple-click Home Episode 36: Lollipops are über Trivial
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In this episode of Triple-Click Home the hosts discuss the upcoming Apple event, as well as speculate the importance of lollipops. Wait, really?
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It’s amazing that Steve Jobs would have been sixty. Tim Cook comemorates Steve Jobs on a recent trip to Germany
Is the Apple car just a rumor? Many different theories as all things speculation are. The hosts have their own guesses to add to the pile.
Team App Picks
Do you need to get somewhere, but you’re not near public transit, or you’re in an unknown city and you don’t know where the nearest cab might be? Or as Joshua pointed out, you could have a date night with someone special and all this with Uber.
Is reading a hobby, especially audio books? Audible is great, but what about all that physical media? John has found an answer, and it’s right in the Mac app store. It’s Audio Book Builder.
Do you want a distraction? Do you want to exercise your brain and see just how brilliant you are, and show that brilliance to your friends? Hope recommends Trivia Crack.Closing Credits
The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter
Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter
Follow John Panarese on Twitter
Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.
Thanks for listening!
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Jan 15Triple-click Home Episode 35: mid-life crisis edition
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In this episode of Triple Click Home, even though it is going through a mid life crisis, get to know our new team and why iCloud is useful for showing that criminals and cows get smarter every day. Or do they?
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Is Apple really declining in accessibility? In this opinion piece the hosts share their opinions about this very question.
why is it that iPhones are linked to a higher income but yet the 70% of unemployed blind need them for accessibility? An interesting study shows statistics of iPhone useage, wherein Montana happens to be in the lead.
How do you think Home Kit will effect your life? The team discusses Home Kit’s integration and just a few possibilities in which it could be useful.
50% of smart phone activations were iPhones, in q4 alone. An article from MacTrast explains this in further detail.
iPad thieves accidentally send their faces and names to victim’s iCloud. And to quote Mr. Harvey ‘here’s the rest of the story
Who would have thought, even as little as 5 years ago that one could buy a Coke and a Snickers from a vending machine, with just an iPhone? Looks like science fiction is now becoming fact
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The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter
Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter
Follow John Panarese on Twitter
Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.
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Oct 14Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon
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The Triple-click Home team is back with another podcast full of talk about iOS, Yosemite and more. Jamie Pauls takes the host’s chair this time around, and Lisa Salinger drops by to talk about using Widgets in iOS 8. All that plus your feedback can be heard on Episode 34. Stories covered this month include:
Top of the News
Thoughts on Apple’s 2014 iPad and Mac event
Editorial: A friendlier Apple Inc now invites media through its Infinite Loop front door
OS X Yosemite Review
Features and Bugs of OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Apple’s iOS 8.1 hits Monday with Apple Pay, iCloud photo library
Accessibility Fixes And Improvements in iOS 8.1
A subscription free version of Sendero’s Seeing Eye GPS app for iOS is now available for $299
The new version of @KNFBReader is out.
Woz: Hello iPhone 6, goodbye Android
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Feature Writer Alena Roberts – The Life and Times of Joe Engressia, aka JoyBubbles
Macs top over one quarter of US back-to-school PC sales
Apple says only 9 customers have complained about bent iPhones
This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry
Team Picks
Buddy recommends Zinio and The Magazine.
John has been playing with the KNFB Reader.
Alena will recommend Fleksy when it gets fixed.
Jamie recommends the iOS game “Lost Cities”.
How One Boy With Autism Became B.F.F.’s With Apple’s Siri
If Siri Was a Waitress
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The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter
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Thanks for listening!
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Sep 14Triple-click Home Episode 33: Where’s the Braille
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The entire Triple-click Home team is back for this month’s podcast. Jamie and Derek join the team to discuss the recent Apple event announcing new iPhones plus the unveiling of Apple Watch. Discussion next turns to the good, the bad and the undecided with regard to iOS 8. Also included are some AppleVis links not discussed in the podcast.
Hands-On First Impressions of the New iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
iPhones with bigger screens may find eager senior buyers
Apple Pay Is The Most Important News Out Of Today’s Launch Event
Why Apple Pay could be the mobile-payment system you’ll actually use
Why Walmart and Best Buy aren’t backing Apple Pay
Sources Say The Next Version Of The Apple Watch Is Going To Be Much Better
Exclusive: Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work
Everything That You Need to Know About iOS 8 Will Be On AppleVis On Release Day
Acapela Voices Temporarily Not Available in iOS 8
The Accessibility Bugs in iOS 8: From Serious To Minor
What’s New in iOS 8 Accessibility for Blind, Low-Vision, and Deaf-Blind Users
Mailbag
From Jenine Stanley:
Oh can I relate to Buddy’s Pro Tip for those of us who find ourselves straddling both worlds.
My work laptop is a Windows machine and it’s good for what it does, sort of, but I’m really enjoying most of my leisure and home chores on my MacBook Pro.
Nope, those Mac commands do not work in Windows and sometimes they do very bad things to your work. I recently went all the way to getting a trouble ticket written for a problem I was having. When I talked to the tech at the outside support service, he asked me for exact steps. I told him and he laughed, in that way you know you’re not supposed to do but …
“Ma’am, that’s a Mac command. Do you use a Mac at home?”
“Uh, yeah, I do. thanks. I’m going to just dig a big ole hole now.”
And yes, Alena, I was taught way back when to start with any new program by exploring the menu system. See what it offers and how to do those things. It’s held me in good stead for many years, many more than I care to think about.
And Buddy, evil as you are, I’m with ya in the playing pranks on the computer teacher. Of course we’d just gotten the IBM Selectric typewriters when I was in high school and the Trash 80 computers didn’t come out until a couple years later. I had my fun at work.
We set up the old DOS machines we had so that the screen came up with a red background and red letters. Then I did a whole demo on some aspect of accessibility. Then I got called into my boss’s office to hear how that wasn’t funny. Made my point though.
Oh and you could indeed set up some key commands, like hot keys, outside of the screen reader, for Windows and more for DOS. Could I remember how to do it now? No, but I had a couple cool ones back in the day.
Blog comment from Jesse
There seems to be a lot of wining about a larger iPhone screen in recent episodes. True, some people don’t want larger screens and that’s fine. But there are many blind and low vision users, low vision users especially, who are really looking forward to a larger iPhone, myself included. I have looked at several Android phones with larger screens, and would love to have an iPhone with these types of screens.
Simply getting an iPad Mini isn’t a good solution either, for a couple of reasons. first, as a low vision user, I use the camera in my phone all the time. The camera in all iPad models isn’t as good, and for some reason, Apple has yet to add a camera flash, making many camera apps on the iPads rather pointless. I use my phone as a portable CCTV all the time and absolutely love it. A little larger screen would be very helpful, and when combined with a more open camera for developers, will make the iPhone even more comparable to dedicated handheld CCTV’s.
Also, I use data everywhere on my phone, and don’t intend to pay for an expanded data plan to have data on my iPad. I’m fine with a Wi-Fi only iPad for now.
These are just my thoughts though. I say, “Bring on the bigger phone.”
Otherwise, I love the podcast, and keep up the great work.
From Beth
Hi, I was introduced to the slate and stylus in mid elementary school but I tended toward wrist rolling and hand pain when using it and, since I was adept at the Perkins Brailler, I did not persevere with the slate and haven’t since, with no desire to. I have no need to write stuff down when I’m out and I use the Perkins and the PC at home. I was fortunate to have parents and teachers who took my individual needs into account. I wonder about the wisdom of teaching screen readers at a very young age. Computers and phones are more intuitive if you have vision, since direct action can be done with the mouse or touch screen.
Screen readers place a bridge of gestures and/or keyboard commands between the user and the device. Yes, very young kids’ brains are pliable and can soak up knowledge well but should so much info be thrown at such a young brain? Also, who will have or take the time to teach a very young child a screen reader? Most kids now are in homes where both parents work and, in general, parents do not have the time, energy or enthusiasm to learn a screen reader themselves, let alone teach it. We don’t have the resources to have that many teachers of the visually impaired to teach that many kids. BethWrapping Up
Apple Creates Tool for Users to Delete Unwanted U2 Album
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Aug 14Triple-click Home Episode 32: That’s How We Roll
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The Triple-click Home team has been super busy this summer, so we decided to give them a bit of a vacation–well, most of them, anyway. Jamie and Buddy decided to change up the podcast a bit this month, and the rest of the gang agreed.
This time around, Jamie Pauls takes a few minutes to demonstrate our shiny new version of iBlink Radio for the Mac.
Lisa shows us how to use Fantastical 2, a calendar for iOS that meets her specific needs in a way that the native calendar does not.
Finally, Jamie interviews the developers of Crossly, a crossword puzzle game for iOS that many in the blind community are enjoying.
Next time around, the team hopes to be able to talk about all the cool stuff Apple plans to release this year. That should make for a full show, indeed and we will include your feedback as well. Until then, enjoy the rest of your summer!
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The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter
Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter
Follow John Panarese on Twitter
Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
Thanks for listening!
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Jul 14Triple-click Home Episode 31: Tin Cans and String
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Welcome to a jam packed episode of the Triple-click Home Podcast. John Panarese was unable to join the team this time around for exciting and mysterious reasons of which we cannot yet speak, so Jamie joined Alena and Buddy for this week’s show. From the top of the news to the unveiling of a new reference book for Voiceover users of the Mac, there is a lot to love about this month’s offering. Add in a dash of lively discussion surrounding your feedback, and we have quite a show for you this time around. Enough with the introductions. Let’s jump right to the …
Top of the News
NFB Adopts Resolution Urging Apple to Require All iOS Apps to Be Accessible
KNFBReader iOS App Announced for $99
Expensive Apps For iPhone and iPad
New update to iBlink Radio
Apple announces iTunes U updat