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    Oct 14

    Triple-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

    Closing Credits

    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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  • 23
    Jul 14

    Triple-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 update with iPad Course Creation, Student Discussions & more

    Apple iMac 21.5-Inch (2014) Review & Rating

    Top 10 keyboard shortcuts every new Mac owner needs to know!

    Apple TV adds ABC News, AOL On, PBS Kids, Willow TV, and redesigned Flickr app

    How to use Apple TV: The ultimate guide

    New privacy enhancements coming to iOS 8 in the fall

    Another rumor claims September 19 iPhone 6 launch, no 16GB version

    How Disney Could Help Apple Create a Killer iWatch

    Apple’s software ju-jitsu

    Interview

    This month, Jamie interviews Janet Ingber about her new book Learning to Use the Mac with Voiceover. This is an extremely valuable resource for anyone who is new to the Mac as well as those who simply want a good reference book at their fingertips, and who doesn’t need that from time to time. Our thanks to Janet for sharing her time with us this month.

    Also check out iOS Access for All: Your comprehensive guide to accessibility for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. by Shelly Brisbin

    You can also listen to Lisa Salinger’s interview with Shelly on SeroTalk Podcast 203.

    AudioSpeed Racing now available for Mac and PC

    Weather Radio by WDT

    AFB Launches an App for AFB CareerConnect and It’s FREE!

    Announcing the launch of Spoken 21; an accessible blackjack game

    The Drive: An app designed to lead the blind safely

    5 Years of VoiceOver: Look How Far We’ve Come

    Team Picks

    This time around, Jamie recommends weather radio, discussed earlier in the podcast. There appears to be a dirth of new apps in the Brannan household, but not to worry as Alena comes to the rescue with the following recommendations

    Exploring Braille

    Blindfold Racer
    And finally, Math Robot.

    Closing credits

    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 Jamie Pauls on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks for listening!

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  • 23
    May 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 29: Eat Something

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    To help remake accessibility training as we know it, visit http://www.a11y.tv to view training subscription options and make your contribution to EZFire’s A11YTV funding campaign.

    Welcome to the post-April-Fools, pre-WWDC edition of the Triple-click Home Podcast. This month, Jamie Pauls takes the host’s chair and Lisa Salinger fills in for an ailing Buddy Brannan. Their discussion of the top news stories of the month includes many twists and turns this time around, so sit back and enjoy the ride.

    Top of the News

    Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details)

    Lisa recommends the book Cell by Robin Cook

    Audioboo / This is got to be the weirdest android voice I have ever heard!

    By the numbers: a breakdown of Apple’s Q2 2014 earnings call

    Apple v. Samsung jury foreman says the “consumer is the loser”

    Nobody knows why Apple would buy Beats, but plenty of people are guessing

    Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine expected to become Apple executives as part of Beats acquisition

    What if Apple bought Beats not for headphones, but wearables?

    Lisa reviews the FitBit in our 2013 holiday special

    Walgreens & Walmart testing iBeacons, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform

    Spotlight: Spring Cleaning

    Spring is in the air! It’s the time of year when we throw open the windows and throw out everything we’ve collected over the past year and decide we no longer need. Why not do the same with the apps on our i-devices?

    Spring Cleaning iOS: Simple and Essential Maintenance Tips for iPhone & iPad

    Community Focus

    Journey towards accessibility: We are home!

    TestFlight » Fleksy on iOS Beta Recruitment

    Sendero Group and RNIB Partner to Release Full-Featured GPS App for UK Users

    My Initial Thoughts on the RNIB Navigator App

    Accessibility options for iPhone and iPad — Everything you need to know! | iMore

    Making DAW Software Accessible for Blind Audio Engineers and Musicians

    Solo-Dx Comes to Accessibility Hound

    Introducing Perkinput for iOS; the Newest Text Entry Alternative to the Keyboard for Braille Users

    App Review: Talking Tuner

    Jamie Pauls demonstrates a neat little app for tuning his guitar. He invites listeners to suggest similar apps that they find useful.

    Mailbag

    From Greg:

    Hello all,

    You guys have really out done yourselves this year. I nearly fell off my couch when I started listening to That Android Show and Triple Click Home. These are really some of the best shows you guys and gals have done. Keep up the good work.

    Thanks,

    Greg Wocher(Your friendly neighborhood BlindMan) 🙂

    From Tony:

    What a great job on episode28, lots of voices, snappy pace, and what made the episode for me were the drop INS. The app demonstrations are a great addition, and the app developer interview was so relevant. My hope is that this is the trend.

    All the best,

    Tony

    Another from Tony:

    Would you please consider discussing what closing an app really means? For instance, why is it that when I close Pandora, TuneIn, Hourly News, and other audio apps, once closed through the App Switcher, if I do a double finger double tap, audio resumes. Are the apps closed or just resting? Are they eating up battery life? Why bother closing them? If they have a stop button, isn’t that as effective as closing them? Doesn’t seem so. The only way I find to really put them to sleep is by turning off my phone. What’s up with that?

    Thanks,

    Tony

    From Jenine:

    Very nice guest hosts of TCH this time and love the app demos from Steve and Ana. Those are a fun addition and I grabbed Google Search which I wasn’t using and learned more about Google Maps which I was using but not lately.

    OK, so do you guys have any un-fun hosts at Serotalk? 🙂

    Jenine Stanley

    Wrapping Up

    Why your iOS device may be a better cable box than the Apple TV

    Apple Store employees switching from iPod touch to iPhone 5s for EasyPay POS system

    My Life Without A Smartphone

    Contacting the Team

    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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  • 23
    Jan 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

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    Welcome to the first Triple-click Home podcast of 2014. This month, Jamie Pauls joins Alena and Buddy to discuss the Apple news stories of the past month. John was unable to be a part of the Triple-click Home team this time around, but we trust that he will join us again next month. In addition to our plentiful crop of news stories, Jamie kicks off our new spotlight segment by talking with Shannon Reese whose daughter Eilish has Down Syndrome. Jamie and Shannon discuss the use of the iPad in Eilish’s education. Apps discussed in this interview include those from The Conover Company as well as a brief discussion of the augmentative alternative communication app Proloquo2Go Of course, our podcast wouldn’t be complete without your feedback, and we include that as well. Without further ado, let’s jump right to the …

    Top of the News

    Google Buys Nest for $3.2 Billion in Cash

    CES 2014: Smart thermostat EverSense shows off ‘Aura’ iBeacons to intelligently adjust room temperature

    CES 2014: iPhone/iPad Bluetooth accessories for the home & body dominate the show

    Mac Sales Rose in 4th Quarter. Or Fell.

    Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates

    Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7

    Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World

    Apple patent details optical image stabilization for iPhone cameras

    T-Mobile’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card:’ they’ll pay your early termination fee to switch

    Yahoo announces News Digest, a new iOS app that provides only essential news stories

    A T Talk

    SeroSpectives: This Year in Tech for 2013

    SPN Goes to the UN

    Update to Sendero GPS

    Announcing the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2013

    Digit-Eyes 2.0 has a completely NEW and simplified user interface design plus NEW other New features

    Opinion

    Opinion: What “three revolutionary devices” will the iWatch be?

    Apple Knows Exactly What It’s Doing With Its iPhone Business

    2014: The year of the iPhone-controlled everything

    Mailbag

    From Beth:

    Hi, I have been researching and have found stuff about using accuators to do Braille instead of pins. Here are a few links.

    Displaying Braille for Mobile Use with the Micro-vibration of SMA Wires

    haptic posts on CNET

    First-ever Braille smartphone could hit stores this year

    The “Feel Screen”: The Pros and Cons of a Tactile Interface for the Next iPad (or iPhone?)

    Blog comment from Zivan Krisher

    During the podcast I think it was Buddy who stated that it is impossible to turn off Zoom while VoiceOver is turned on. This is not true. I’m a low vision IOS user and often use VoiceOver in combination with Zoom. When Zoom is turned on, double tapping 3 fingers becomes the Zoom toggle. and triple tapping 3 fingers becomes the VoiceOver toggle.

    Wrapping Up

    This Pressure-Sensitive Case May Change How You Use Your iPhone

    The strange, shady world of $1,000 iOS apps

    The 12 Apps You Should Delete from Your Phone in 2014

    Contacting the Team

    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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  • 19
    Dec 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 25: Welcome Back to the Present

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    It’s hard to believe that we have arrived at the end of another year. This month, the Triple-click Home team takes a look at the top Apple stories of 2013. Also, Lisa Salinger brings us a review of the Dropbox app for iOS.

    This Year in Apple News

    One year, four departed execs, and a lot to be determined for Apple
    So, what is Apple’s next big thing going to be?

    Insiders “now confident” Apple will launch lower-priced, lightweight iPhone as early as June

    Apple beefs up iCloud, Apple ID security with two-step verification

    Jony Ive Leaves His Mark As Skeuomorphism Concept Vanishes From One App

    Apple announces WWDC 2013 details, promises new iOS and OSX builds

    Tim Cook issues an apology to Apple’s Chinese customers

    Apple reveals details of 50 billionth App Store download

    SeroTalk Podcast 153 Discusses the Accessibility of the Kindle App

    WWDC 2013, A Lot of Announcements | MacForTheBlind

    Apple posts OS X Mavericks preview page

    Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

    Voice Dream Interview by Alena Roberts

    An App For All Creatures Great and Small — Zoomed In

    Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

    Apple’s cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

    Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

    Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

    Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

    Blind Bargains: A Review of the BARD Mobile App

    Mailbag

    Hello,
    This is for the Triple Click Home team.
    Perhaps you guys can cover this in the mail bag for the next podcast.
    For those of you that are using Mail in standard view, with organize by conversation
    enabled, in messages that contain original messages part of a reply, and it says
    “see more from sender”. When you activate the link with Control+Option+Space, have
    you guys found Voice Over does not do anything when you press the up and down arrow
    keys after expanding the rest of the conversation?
    Thank you,

    Ali Moosa

    Hello there!
    As always, I was looking forward to the new episode, and, as always, you did not
    disappoint me. It was a pleasure to listen to it! 🙂
    • I have got very little problems with TouchID on my new 5S. Actually, when I first
    set it up, I didn|t have much time to listen to all the instructions and saved one
    finger print with three different fingers / right thumb and index finger when holding
    iPhone in left hand and left thumb when holding iPhone in right hand. this worked
    although I saved it as one finger print.
    I did delete it in the meantime and saved the three digits in three finger prints.
    😉
    • A few days ago, you retweeted a review of Open Office – was it a CNet article_
    I think it was.
    Has anybody tested Open Office for its accessibility recently? I remember that this
    wasn’t too good a while back. Have there been improvements? I am in the middle of
    writing my PhD and don’t have much time to play around with office suites. It was
    time-consuming and therefore annoying enough that I had to convert a few work-in-progress
    documents from RTF to docx. Aaargh!
    • quite a large number of people are looking forward to getting RTF back in Pages.
    Me too! However, is there a risk that the navigability of tables in Pages is going
    to go again, at least in RTF format?
    • One last question for now to you and your listeners, a question for which I have
    not yet got an answer from Apple nor from an Apple accessibility mailing list in
    which I am active:
    For links in emails and on websites we can adjust in the VoiceOver settings how they
    are announced. That’s fine. Nonetheless, when there is a link in an email and I arrow-key
    my way into it, VoiceOver says: “web url detected” – with a voice as if she was breathing
    through a helium balloon. There must be a separate setting for this as the verbosity
    settings in the VoiceOver Utility don’t seem to have an effect on this phenomenon.
    any ideas?
    That’s it from me. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season.

    Greetings from Ireland,

    Markus

    Hi, it’s me again!
    I want to share this with you, but the other email would have got too long, so I
    post it here.
    I reported the accessibility issues in the file export menu in Pages to Apple Accessibility
    and got the following…personal!…response, not the standard template. 😉
    In the meantime we can explain the dialog box to allow you to complete the process.
    In the Pages File Menu, if you selected Word, then Word is automatically selected
    in the export dialog.
    If, at that point, you press Enter, then you will be taken to the Save as Dialog
    box to choose where you want to save the exported file. The file will export as a
    word doc with the default settings of
    a) No password required to open the file and
    b) Using the .docx format instead of the older .doc ( Word 1997-2003) compatible
    format.
    If instead you chose PDF in the Export Menu, then the dialog box will default to
    PDF as the exported filed type. Pressing Enter will again then take you to the Save
    as dialog box with the pre-determined
    settings of Good Image quality and no password required to open the file.
    If you choose to move within the dialog box, there are 5 tabbed areas: PDF, Word,
    Plain Text, ePub, and Pages ’09. These are the 5 Unknown labels you are hearing.
    Each has some further text or options associated with each option:
    Under PDF, the text reads;
    “To Change PDF layout settings, Choose File > Print.”
    The PDF options are;
    Image Quality: with a pull down menu for Good, Better, or Best. The default is good.
    And a check box for Require password to open. The default is unchecked.
    Under Word, the options are;
    Require password to open check box
    and a disclosure triangle revealing the format options pull down menu of .docx or
    .doc
    .docx is the default choice.
    Under Plain Text there is only the text;
    Create a plain text document that includes only body text without formatting.
    Under ePub, the options are;
    Three text boxes including Title, Author and Primary Category
    and a disclosure triangle revealing an additional text box for Language
    as well as a check box for Use the first page as the book cover image. The default
    is unchecked.
    Under Pages ’09;
    The only option is the Require password to open check box.
    The default is an unchecked check box.

    Markus Böttner

    Wrapping Up

    From iPad Air to Mac Pro: everything you need to know about Apple’s fall event

    My Review of the iPhone 5S | MacForTheBlind

    Apple promises to bring back missing iWork for Mac features in six months

    All The Changes In iOS 7.1 Beta You’ll Actually Notice

    Joe Steinkamp interviews the developers of the MovieReading app in SeroTalk Podcast 179

    Apple to Usher in New Age of In-Store Shopping With iBeacon Rollout

    The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead

    Contacting the Team

    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
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  • 18
    Sep 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 22: We’re S People

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    What should you do while you’re waiting for your i-device to update to iOS 7? Should you bite your fingernails? Repeatedly swipe your phone in hopes that Voiceover will give you some sort of a progress indicator? Why not listen to the latest episode of the Triple-click Home podcast? This month, Alena, Buddy, John, Derek and Jamie all weigh in with their thoughts on the iPhone 5c and 5s as well as iOS 7. Also, Alena Roberts interviews Jonathan Mosen about his new book, iOS 7 Without the Eye. Jonathan and Alena don’t just talk about the book, though. They discuss the state of accessibility in all of Apple’s products and even talk a bit about Android. Yes, you read that right–a discussion of Android on an episode of Triple-click Home. So sit back, don’t touch your i-device while it’s updating, and enjoy the podcast.

    The music heard in Alena’s interview was provided courtesy of Andre Louis. Be sure to visit his Web site and purchase his music.

    Apple’s overhauled iOS 7 is coming September 18 to an iDevice near you

    New Default Ringtones for iOS 7

    Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

    Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

    iPhone 5S sports new M7 processor to handle motion apps

    Apple iPhone 5S camera promises bigger pixels, slow-mo, better image processing

    iPhone 5S comes with Touch ID fingerprint scanner

    Apple TV Software Update to Arrive Alongside iOS 7 on September 18

    Apple TV update adds channels for Vevo, Disney, Weather & Smithsonian

    Apple launches iTunes Radio on September 18

    Apple’s iWork suite (plus iMovie and iPhoto) free with new iOS devices

    For archives of Apple’s live presentations, visit Apple’s Events page

    You must buy a new iPhone to use Apple’s now-confirmed trade-in program

    Walmart will credit you up to $300 for your old smartphone

    PayPal Beacon: Finally an Easier Way to Pay in Stores Than Swiping a Credit Card

    Apple patent turns the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control

    Mailbag

    This month, Laura writes us to say:

    Hello, musicians:
    Has anybody figured out how to use the iPad version of Garage Band with Voice Over?
    I would really like to learn.
    Thanks.
    Laura Mulraney

    The team has some great answers to this question so be sure to listen.

    Regarding last month’s exploding phone article, regular contributor Jenine Stanley writes:

    Funny that you should mention this book. As I download it to read, I asked my dear spouse if I’d see his name in it.

    He worked for AT&T for over 35 years and was on the team that chased down some of the phone freaks during their heyday.

    He was also on a team of inside hackers who got to try to break things for a living within The Phone Company.

    He tells me that the recent revelations regarding NSA are nothing new at all. And that’s all he can tell me as he’s still under certain orders never to talk about what his team did.

    He will tell you though that his time on those projects was a geek’s dream.

    Jenine Stanley

    Triple-click Home Team App Picks

    Here is a link to the Apple II e emulator discussed on the podcast

    New Podcast: Codename Cygnus for iOS: Play the Hero in your own Secret Agent Drama

    Audioboo / Here’s an all too common sound, hopefully redone in a cool way: Tritone

    Contacting the Team

    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 Derek Lane on Twitter

    Follow Jamie Pauls on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks for listening!

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  • 28
    Aug 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 21: Finger Gymnastics

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    Welcome to the 21st episode of our podcast. We celebrate our 21st birthday with champagne, chocolate, and your feedback. Every party needs cake, and cake needs icing. The icing on our cake this month is an interview with Harri Pasanen, developer of MBraille, the extremely popular Braille keyboard entry app for iOS. Along with our partying, we actually discuss the most interesting news stories of the past month. Grab your favorite beverage, pull up a comfortable chair and let’s get started!

    Apple’s cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

    Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

    Report: iOS 7 may come to iPhones and iPod touches first, iPads later

    7 Facts About The iPhone You Probably Didn’t Know Were True

    Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator

    Does an iPhone really burn more coal than a refrigerator?

    Top 5 secret Siri tips: How to add, find, delete, and do everything faster!

    Apple’s Mac sales down in July, to slide 5 percent this quarter

    Apple Retail Stores making a play to sell Macs to Windows based business customers

    Seemingly benign “Jekyll” app passes Apple review, then becomes “evil”

    Apple bans app that wants you to throw your phone in the air

    Apple updates App Store review guidelines

    Announcing the Newest Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

    Announcing the release to the Apple Store of the first update to The Seeing Eye GPS™ app for the iPhone, version 1.1.

    Downcast for OS X: Download, Play and Synchronize your Favorite Podcasts

    Apple shares soar after billionaire investor Carl Icahn calls company ‘extremely undervalued’

    Apple’s Tim Cook Talking To Investors…

    Apple Acquires Video Discovery Service Matcha.tv

    Judge says she won’t suspend ruling in Apple e-books case

    Apple e-book price-fixing damages trial set for next May

    Steve Jobs movie slammed by critics — and Woz

    Steve Jobs: Genius, or Just Obsessive?

    Recommended Apps

    This month, the Triple-click Home Team mentions apps they are still enjoying from last month. Feel free to visit our previous show notes for those recommendations. One new app mentioned by Alena Roberts is the game Wizard’s Choice.

    Contacting the Team

    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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  • 28
    Jul 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

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    Since Buddy Brannan was unable to join us for this month’s episode of Triple-click Home, Jamie Pauls joins Alena Roberts and John Panarese to discuss the top news stories of the month. The team has some app recommendations to share along the way, and Alena rounds out the show with an interview with the developer of the Voice Dream app for reading books and many other types of documents on your iOS device.

    Apple Took Three Days to Tell Developers About a Site Hack

    Researcher claims he told Apple of Developer Center vulnerability but didn’t maliciously steal data

    iOS 7 preview: Siri gets a new look, access to settings, more services, still no predictive results

    Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

    With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google

    With all of our talk of travel, John recommends All Access: Talking Menus.

    Apple acquires navigation service Hopstop

    HopStop for Windows Phone Scrapped Following Apple Deal

    States Combat Cell Phone Use On The Road But Deaths Persist

    How Will Apple Handle Verizon’s iPhone Shortfall?

    Comparing T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon’s Upgrade Plans

    Here’s all the evidence that Apple is making an actual TV—and the remote will likely be your hand

    iPad mini 2 with Retina display won’t be released this year?

    Recharging iPhone blamed for another serious shock in China

    You Won’t Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face

    Apple should lead the move to DRM-free ebooks

    How to request a refund for an iTunes or App Store purchase

    App Updates: Fleksy Version 1.8 links favorites with contacts, improves responsiveness and accuracy, and adds themes There is also a new update to MBraile

    Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

    Listen to Joe Steinkamp’s interview with the developers of the iOS game Solara on SeroTalk Podcast 162

    Alena has been playing with the crossword game Word Shuffle.

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    Jun 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 19: A Stickler for Sequence

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    This month, Joshua Loya joins the Triple-click Home team to talk about all things related to Apples WWDC Keynote. Stories discussed in this podcast include:

    What Apple revealed at WWDC 2013

    Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote video now live

    WWDC 2013, A Lot of Announcements | MacForTheBlind

    David Woodbridge Technology Blog: Talking Tech for June 11 – Apple WWDC 2013 Keynote – my notes

    Which Macs, iPads and iPhones will get Apple’s new goodies?

    Apple posts OS X Mavericks preview page

    iOS 7 tells Apple users to ‘get excited’ again, says analyst

    Apple’s new products won’t cheer investors, says analyst

    Hands-on with the new Apple iOS 7

    Fleksy keyboard page seems to indicate that Apple will allow third party software keyboards in iOS 7?

    iOS App Store will update apps automatically, offer location and age categories

    Passbook for iOS 7 to support scanning QR codes

    The iPhone finally gets call-blocking in iOS 7

    Lawmakers are cautiously optimistic about iOS 7’s ‘Activation Lock’ feature

    Apple announces ad based iTunes Radio, ad free for iTunes Match subscribers

    Apple’s latest creation is a woman named Mieko Haire

    For Apple, an inflection point

    Contacting the Team

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    May 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 18: Could You Try That in Less Words?

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    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 18: Could You Try That in Less Words?
    Welcome to another jam-packed episode of Triple-click Home. This month, John Panarese takes the wheel and is joined by Alena Roberts and Buddy Brannan. Along with a discussion of the current crop of news stories, Jamie Pauls talks with Brian Kevelighan about the Aftershokz Bluez bluetooth bone conduction headphones. We also feature a listener email, so stick around and enjoy the show!

    Top of the News

    Apple reveals details of 50 billionth App Store download

    Apple faces questions over alleged tax evasion

    A popular Office for Mac version reaches the end of the support line

    Microsoft improves Skype on the Mac

    Apple tightens App Store rules, now rejecting more app discovery services

    iMacs get new cheaper, smaller flash storage options

    Hardware Review

    This month, Brian Kevelighan reviews the Aftershokz Bluez Bluetooth bone conduction headphones. He isn’t the only one who is in love with them. The Triple-click Home team share their opinion of these headphones as well.

    iOS News

    Google announces Hangouts messaging service coming to iOS, Android, and desktop today

    T-Mobile: No iPhone discount lasts forever

    Siri update prompts users to be brief

    Low-cost iPhone rumor reignited by Apple supplier’s hiring spree

    Apple Having Trouble Signing New Carriers Because of iPhone Subsidy and Minimum Purchase Requirements

    Mailbag

    Hi folks,
    Thanks again for another very informative & witty podcast.
    You all could form the Blind Tech Comedy club.
    I have to tell you of my mac transition.
    My Mother passed away 2 years ago, June 30. I wanted a diversion & a new computer. I got tired of all of the SMA upgrades. Therefore, it left me with the concept of learning to use the Mac OS. NOt only was I learning a new OS, I was learning a new screen reader. Originally, I paid the $99 for the one on one instruction through the apple store. I found the noise & lack of knowledge by the in store trainers discouraging until I met a lady who introduced me to macvisionaries. Between macvisionaries & Iblink radio, I have gotten more information than I could have ever paid for.
    As you were talking about your first experience with a screen reader, I have to relay my own experience. I started with DOS 5.0 & found a shareware program called BPop. It was not a fully functional screen magnifier. It would allow me to engage it after I had typed something in order to proofread it. If I had made a mistake, I had to count spaces & lines in order to correct it.
    Living in Florida at the time, I was in a close proximity to what was then Henter Joyce in St. Petersburg Florida. I actually met Ted Henter. I found within my budget through considerable cutbacks at the time the $295 to purchase Magic 1.27. It magnified my DOS screen & brought Windows 3.1 in 2x mode. I also received training through the state of Florida on the Vert screen reader along with word perfect 5.1.
    Fast forwarding to today, I still have my windows computer yet pull out my mac for everything.
    I am by no means an expert, yet am proficient enough to do what I need to do & am very satisfied with my decision to learn the Mac OS.
    Like Jamie, I too, am a manual reader. I try to absorb what my given appliance or piece of electronics will do like a sponge. All of the resources you listed are very much appreciated. Your work does not go for naught. I also have a suggestion. Is it possible to take topics from the mac visionaries list with the most responses & expound on the subject matter? Some of them are very lengthy, yet very informational. I don’t read everything primarily, because I don’t have the time to read email all day. However, I find their listers very helpful & interactive.
    The applevis site is also a good resource, however, I find some on that site who whine if something isn’t handed to them. Thank you also for your interview with the gentleman dealing with the Earl app. I am not necessarily one who believes everything needs to be free, however, I am tentative to subscribe to their service without knowing how viable they will be. I see their monthly price point to be very affordable, yet my Kansas City paper is not part of their content due to their web subscription policy. I do use newsline & am glad to see a for profit company give them direct competition while making it safe for those who spend a lot of time commuting.
    It sounds as if they are following the model of Flexy, using the blind community as a means to test their app & service, yet eventually marketing to everyone.
    We have come an extremely long ways from the specialized equipment costing several thousand dollars to main stream technology accessible to everyone.
    Thank all of you for your tireless efforts & your dedication to making the world we live in technologically easier to live with.
    Sincerely,

    Pamela J Francis

    Wrapping Up

    Feature Writer Alena Roberts – Kindle Books are Finally Made Accessible to People with Print Disabilities

    Extensive run through of the now accessible iOS Kindle app with VoiceOver

    iOS App Voice Dream Reader now half price at $4.99 for limited time.

    Prizmo – Scanning, OCR, and Speech

    Looktel Money Reader Gains New Currencies

    Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was better at design than I was

    Contacting the Team

    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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    Follow John Panarese on Twitter
    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
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