Triple-click Home

Accessibility for iEverything

  •   Home  
  • Welcome to Triple-Click Home
  • 23
    May 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 29: Eat Something

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 29: Eat Something

    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!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch29.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Podcasts, Reviews
      Android, Apple, apps, Braille, E-books, Education, iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPhone, Mavericks
     
  • 26
    Feb 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 27: Will You Be My Family?

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 27: Will You Be My Family?

    This month, guest host Allison Hartley joins the Triple-click Home team to discuss the top news stories of the week. In addition to the news, Alena Roberts talks with Tom Green of Somethin’ Else, makers of Papa Sangre, Papa Sangre II and The Nightjar. As always, we include your feedback in the show.

    Top of the News

    The future of the Mac: What will the next 30 years bring us?

    Why Apple ‘computers’ outselling Microsoft may not be fair, but is incredibly important

    The real reason Macs never got in the enterprise

    Apple maintains enterprise dominance; Windows Phone lags

    Report: New content could arrive with new Apple TV “by Christmas”

    The iWatch Will Not Be An iPhone On Your Wrist

    Apple Reportedly Hires Sleep Expert For iWatch Team

    Apple pledges $100 million in iPads, computers and other tools toward Obama’s ConnectED education program

    Apple’s iPad Air Has The Longest Lasting Battery Among Current Tablets

    News in iOS

    7 New iOS 7.1 Details

    5 problems a 5-inch iPhone solves for Apple

    Verizon confirms ‘More Everything,’ brings price cuts, more data, global texting

    Patrick Perdue demos Zoom IQ5 mid/side stereo microphone for iOS devices

    Check out BackBlaze, a #VoiceOver accessible cloud backup solution.

    An Overview of Five iOS Text Editors

    Switching back to Windows

    Spotlight: Games

    Play a Free iOS Game and Help with University Research

    ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator: Game Was Pulled Because It Became an ‘Addictive Product’

    mailbag

    From Jenine Stanley:

    So, I’m excited about the usability of the MicroWave audio editor for the Mac. I am stuck though on a couple concepts that don’t seem to be covered by the very well done manual. Where might I go to find more info about using this audio editor with Voice Over?

    I’m particularly interested in the keyboard commands for selecting text. Everything else looks dandy but that one has me stumped.

    Another from Jenine:

    Loved the last show, as always but was thinking as I transition to the Mac, that it might be good to have a segment of your show that looks at the practical side of using Apple products. Here’s how it might go.

    Let’s say we choose a task, like creating, editing and reading documents. Then we talk about the programs available, which we use and why, and how they might differ for someone coming from the Windows environment. I know you guys sometimes do this anyway but a more structured look might be helpful.

    I, for example, am about to take on Pages. I can open a document to read or edit and see the places for headers, footers and body text but then can’t seem to get much further. I know there’s something I’m missing but just don’t know what it is.

    Alena does a great job of pointing out things like Text Edit and the 1-page issue which is hugely helpful. Let’s have more of that.

    I’m just glad I can finally understand what you all and David Woodbridge are talking about when it comes to Mac OS stuff now. I usually tuned out if it wasn’t IOS.

    Keep up the good work.

    Finally from Jenine:

    I’m testing out a borrowed Macbook Pro and am down to only two major elements keeping me from the switch. I have to test it with my printer, but I see no issues there.

    The Macbook is dated 2012 and is running Mavrix latest version.

    I currently scan documents using Acrobat Pro for my scanning needs on my Windows7 desktop. Besides Docuscan Plus, are there other programs that work with the Mac?

    References I saw on Applevis were no longer available in the app store.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    From Chris Nusbaum:

    Hello to the Triple Click Home Team,

    As always I very much enjoyed Episode 26 of the podcast. There was a lot of good information and commentary provided and the interview with Shannon Reese was enlightening. You and the whole gang at SPN provide a wonderful service to the blind community and I am very appreciative of it.

    I would like to make a few comments and ask a question in response to some of the topics discussed in the most recent podcast. Firstly, I agree with and relate to the frustrations which Jamie and Buddy expressed about the Learning Ally app. The lack of a rewind/fast forward feature does make it inefficient and annoying; indeed, I find it makes reading my textbook take much more time than it should. If I am answering a question which requires information that is at the bottom of a page, I have to listen to everything on the page to get that information.
    If I miss what I need once, I have to listen to the entire page yet again. After Jamie suggested this workaround, I downloaded the textbook onto my Victor Reader Stream and am finding that it is much better. Now there is some news on this subject which I would like to share. I called Learning Ally tech support today for an unrelated matter, but also told them about the issues mentioned above with the iOS app. The tech support specialist told me that they had heard this from many users and were adding a 10-second rewind/fast forward feature in the next app update.
    The rep did not have a definite release date for the app update, as it is still in the testing stages. She assured me, however, that this improvement can be expected in the near future. This is definitely a sign of progress.

    Now onto my question. There was discussion during the podcast about Twitterrific and, more generally, apps which are not compatible with iOS 7. I used and enjoyed Twitterrific on my old iPhone 4S running iOS 6. However, I found that it was not working very well at all when I updated to iOS 7. It would take a long time to load and the app would often crash altogether before it even loaded, kicking me back out to the home screen. I ended up switching from Twitterrific to TweetList when I was asked to handle the live tweeting of the NFB of Maryland convention, partly because of my lack of success with Twitterrific and partly because I found TweetList to work better with multiple accounts. I realize that this was on an iPhone 4s, which did not work very well with iOS 7 anyway. However, I now have an iPhone 5C. So, have you found Twitterrific to work better on the newer iPhone models? Does it load any faster or have better responsiveness with the new iPhones as compared to the 4S? If so, perhaps I will redownload Twitterrific on my 5C and see how it works. I look forward to hearing your feedback on this. Thanks for all you do; keep up the great work.

    Blog comment from Jan Blüher:

    Hello Triple Click Home Team,

    I wondered why Alena cannot see the weather info in notification center although others can, and started a little search. It seems that the location services have to be enabled for the Weather app to make this happen: Settings; Privacy; Location Services. Maybe you try this.

    Keep on going with the podcast. It’s a very nice show. I like it.

    Blog comment from Chris McKnight:

    I share your frustration with the touch screen controls and their inaccessibility to blind people. In particular with regard to home appliances, I agree go see them in the store for yourself and many times you can find them with raised buttons on those smooth front panels, which I was able to do with my new dishwasher and clothes washer/dryer units. I had the same problem with cooking ranges, however, where controls have no tactile buttons. My solution was to give up on any that had dynamic touch screen menu controls (like KitchenAid models), but I did buy a Kenmore model with smooth touch panel controls, but no menus to deal with. The solution? My sighted girlfriend affixed those little adhesive rubber markers right next to the buttons I needed to locate to control the oven, which I can use as landmarks to find the “buttons” I need. The bumpy markers are placed next to, and not on top of, the “buttons” because they are in fact touch sensitive, not pressure sensitive, so I didn’t wan t to obstruct the buttons from detecting my fingertips. This solution has worked for me and I’m able to independently control my new oven, no problem at all.
    Great show, guys. Never miss an episode!

    From Richard Applegate

    If you want the weather summary to appear in your Notification Center, simply go into Setting/Notification Center and enable Today Summary.
    You can disable the display of the obnoxious calendar as well.

    Odds and Ends

    HuffPost Tech – Why you should put down your smartphone and talk to a stranger

    Time capsule containing Steve Jobs’ 1983 Apple mouse excavated

    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!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch27.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Interviews, Podcasts
      Android, Apple, apps, Education, Games, iOS 7, iPad, iPad Mini, Mac, Mavericks
     
  • 23
    Jan 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

    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!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch26.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Interviews, Podcasts
      Android, Apple, apps, Braille, E-books, Education, Games, iOS 7, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, iWork, Mac, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Siri
     
  • 19
    Dec 13

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

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

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

    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
    Thanks for listening!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch25.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Podcasts, Reviews
      Apple, apps, Braille, E-books, Education, Games, iOS 7, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPhone, iWork, Mac, Mavericks, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook
     
  • 27
    Nov 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 24: Luxury Versus Necessity

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home episode 24: Luxury Versus Necessity

    Help us turn two in this episode of the podcast as the Triple-click Home team discusses all things Mac and iOS includeing Mavericks, iWork and iOS 7. In addition to the news and possibly a rant or two, Jamie Pauls visits with Dmitriy Konopatskiy about the recent changes to the extremely popular image recognition app TapTapSee and what we can expect in future updates to the product. Here is a direct link to TapTapSee in the app store.

    Top of the News

    Apple Launches OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 For Registered Developers

    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

    Sendero GPS LookAround for iOS gets a nice update and goes free:

    A review of five iOS navigation apps

    Voice Dream Reader, Truly a Dream App

    Papa Sangre II on the App Store on iTunes

    Blind Bargains: Review: Bring On the Horror With Papa Sangre 2

    TapTapSee becomes a paid service

    Apple and Samsung together account for… 109% of industry profits

    Apple still tops in tablets, despite dwindling market share

    Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

    Pandora: iTunes Radio? Pshaw. We’re doing just fine.

    iPad Air beats the iPad 4 by 80 percent in benchmark tests

    iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test

    Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

    Surprise! Apple’s now selling the iPad Mini with Retina display online

    The Retina iPad Mini teardown reveals cross between iPad Air & iPhone 5s

    Apple’s New Fingerprint Scanner Is An Epic Fail For Some

    Mailbag

    Dear Triple-click Home Team,

    I am a vision impaired university student and would like to share my experience with using Windows on my MacBook Pro. For the most part Windows 7 runs the best I’ve ever seen it run on any computer, probably because it’s running on a Mac! I use both Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion 4 when working in the Windows environment when I have to. I only need to run Windows in the first place because of my Transformer, long/short distance viewer.

    One thing I would like to note about running Windows on a Mac is that a Mac battery, 7 hours, will be cut down to a Windows battery, 2-3 hours when running Windows on a Mac laptop. Of course one wouldn’t have to worry about battery life reduction when running Windows on a desktop Mac, but because I am a student, I need to be mobile.

    One last thing I would like to note is that even when running Windows directly via Boot Camp, my MacBook Pro really heats up more than it would ever when using the Mac side of the computer – probably due to the intense graphics processing and operating system structure. Also, I noticed a few times last year that I got the Blue Screen of Death when directly running Windows. So i have to be careful not to put it to sleep to often when in the Windows environment, especially when I’m just seconds away from needing to use it in class.

    Overall, in my opinion, I believe Apple handles the Windows environment really well and just to know when one wants to use the Windows environment, their going to get a Windows environment.

    I would greatly appreciate it, and even more important, I believe a brief summary of this email would be good to include in the next Triple-click Home podcast for others to take note of.

    From Michael

    Michael’s World
    Visually Impaired Student
    www.mts.net/~wefour

    Wrapping Up

    Apple will now pay you for a water-damaged iPhone or iPad

    The craziest things you can plug into your iPhone’s audio jack

    Here’s What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve Jobs

    Audioboo / 2013 DJ Marathon – The Karen Jacobsen Interview In Full

    Sprint and Best Buy Team Up to Give Students a Free Phone Line for a Year!

    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!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch24.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Interviews, Podcasts
      Android, Apple, apps, Braille, Education, Games, iOS 7, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPhone, iWork, Mavericks, Siri, Steve Jobs
     
  • 28
    Jul 13

    Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

    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.

    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!

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch20.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Interviews, Podcasts
      Android, Apple, apps, Braille, E-books, Games, iOS 7, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, Mavericks, Siri
     
  • 25
    Dec 12

    Triple-click Home Episode 13: We Win

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 13: We Win

    In this podcast, John, Pete and Buddy discuss the top news of the month as well as the biggest stories of the year. Before Alena left for Hawaii, she sat down with Jamie Pauls to give her thoughts on the year’s Apple news. Here are the stories, both past and present, which made our list this month.

    Apple needs to learn how the internet works

    Apple’s Contract-Free iPhone Could Benefit Every Consumer In America

    How T-mobile’s smartphone pricing could change the wireless industry

    Tim Cook hates office politics, loves when you email him

    Analyst thinks ‘iPhone 5S’ due in June with better camera, NFC, multiple color options

    Google releases official Google Maps application for iOS, features turn-by-turn navigation…

    iTunes 11 review: Simple is as simple does

    Apple January event to focus on publishing, iBooks, report says

    Apple to host January 19 ‘education event’ in New York

    iPhone turns 5 years old on January 9th

    iPad vs. iPad 2 vs. the new iPad

    Who wants an iPad Mini? About one buyer in two

    Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter

    iPhone 5 launching with 4-inch screen, new Dock connector?

    Apple’s $1 Billion Win Over Samsung: Q&A

    Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display  

    Why should I, a Windows user, care about Mountain Lion anyway?

    Apple selects TomTom as primary iOS 6 maps provider (update: confirmed)

    Mailbag

    This month’s email is from Jenine Stanley. She writes:

    Hi Guys,

    Loved the 12th podcast. I have a couple recommendations for you for apps.

    In the time killing games department, I am addicted to 7 Little words.

    Sorry, don’t know how much this one costs but you get a daily free puzzle Plus one puzzle zone, 50 puzzles, for free when you start the game.

    In this game you have 7 clues and set of letters that form the words to answer the clues.

    You must put together the combinations of letters by double tapping on them in order.

    So, let’s say you have a clue that reads like:

    1. First meal of the day

    9 letters

    Your choices of letters displayed below all of the 7 clues might be something like:

    BR EXE SUB EA JUN KFA ING ST

    You would then double tap on BR first then EAC and so on until BREAKFAST is displayed.

    You can check which groups of letters you’ve chosen, erase the entire group and get hints.

    Your first 15 hints are free. Then you can buy unlimited hints for $1.99.

    The entire game, save for one or two buttons is accessible and the unlabeled buttons are easy enough to figure out in context and label. All of the game features are  accessible.

    You can earn bonus puzzle zones by completing zones you buy. Buy X number and earn 1 free zone.

    On the practical side, I love the app Transit Times. It has the Central Ohio transit authority in it so I can stand at any point in the Columbus metro area and learn what buses come near me, what the nearest stop is to me and when the next bus is supposed to be there. It seems to actually work in real time too with the bus company data. I live along a route with multiple buses and often use other routes with multiple buses so this app is really nice.

    It’s completely accessible but does take some getting used to. For example, it’s not really designed to give you the automatic next bus kind of data.

    You have to go a couple screens in to get that for your real-time location.

    It would be nice to have this as an option on the home screen.

    It is designed to give you time tables and other scheduling info and is supposed to help you plan routes with multiple buses. I haven’t gotten that part to work quite the way I’d expected yet, but it you want to know when the next bus is scheduled at your stop, this is a great app.

    Finally, for the ladies, although this might come too late for the holidays,

    31 Products has a wrist purse that can hold your I-Phone and a lot more.

    It’s a nice size little purse that can fit in a coat pocket. You can put your phone in the outside pocket if it has a regular case or inside if it has say an Otterbox defender case as mine does. The inside option is good because it has an adjustable zipper so you can attach the headphones if necessary and control your phone that way without taking it out of your purse.

    The wallet part has a zipper pouch, places for credit and business cards and another pocket for change and such It also has a front pocket for your bus ID and other cards you need to get quickly.

    I want to say I got it for around $30.00 and it’s available from anyone who is a 31 Products dealer, and trust me, there are lots of blind people out there who are. 🙂

    Keep up the great shows guys!

    Wrapping Up

    Apple v Android: the winner is… the disabled community

    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 Pete Bossley on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks for listening!

     

     

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch13.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Podcasts
      Android, Apple, apps, E-books, Education, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, Mac, Mountain Lion, Steve Jobs
     
  • 20
    Nov 12

    Triple-click Home Episode 12: Blind People Gotta Rock

      Posted by jpauls
      0 comments

    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 12: Blind People Gotta Rock

    Jamie Pauls joins Buddy Brannan and Alena Roberts for this month’s podcast. There are lots of laughs, news stories and holiday gift recommendations this time around. Be sure and listen to the very end of this episode, because there is a little surprise that you could easily miss if you hit the stop button too quickly. Enjoy!

    Apple

    A More Pocketable, Integrated Apple Under Tim Cook

    Apple share of tablet market dips to 50%

    HTC Will Pay Apple $6-$8 Per Android Phone As Part of Patent Settlement

    Judge to review whether foreman in Apple v. Samsung hid info

    Someone Goofed, And Apple’s New ‘Prototype’ Store Is Unbearably Noisy

    Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

    Apple gearing up for major adjustments to the Mac

    Reviews

    Apple Mac Mini with Fusion Drive Review

    13″ Retina MacBook Pro review: more pixels, less value

    Review: iPad 4 has processing power to spare

    Apple Bloggers Love The iPad Mini So Much They’re Calling It ‘The Real iPad’

    iPad mini or Nexus 7: Which is best for you?

    Jamie Pauls reviews iAssociate 2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

    Rumor Mill

    New iPhone, iPad, and ‘iTV’ slated for first half of 2013?

    iPad Mini Retina rumor arrives early

    Holiday Section

    Apple adds Passbook-enabled gift cards to its store app

    Charge your iPad with a rocking chair

    We asked the Triple-click team to submit their holiday wish list. John and Buddy would really like a new Mac. Alena would like a stand for her iPhone that would allow her to stabilize the camera for optimal OCr. Jamie Pauls announces that he has just ordered a 13-inch Macbook Pro. Alena suggests a word processor called Bean and Buddy recommends the Sophos antivirus package. Derek Lane drops by and offers a few recommendations of his own. We will check back with Pete next month to see what he wants for Christmas.

    Mailbag

    Dave from Ireland:

    Hi folks,

    Another great episode of 3CH, thanks. I just thought I’d respond to a couple of things

    from the mailbag section.

    1. The guy with the crashing App Store.

    As you said, he didn’t mention which device he’s using. However I have had this issue

    on my 3rd Generation iPad. As you know, the App Store has several tabs at the bottom

    of the screen, and when you open it, it opens into whichever tab it was in when you

    last closed it. The crash happens when the selected tab it is trying to open into

    is Top Charts. So I have trained myself to remember to put it in any other tab whenever

    I’m closing the App Store.

    The only way to open the App Store in this situation seems to be to turn off VoiceOver,

    open the App Store, and then turn VoiceOver back on again.

    I have emailed Apple about it and they replied to say they are aware of it.

    2. Actions Menu.

    I’ve heard and read a lot of people talking about how you can go to the Actions menu

    to delete mail etc. by finding Actions in the rotor. I’ve noticed that a lot of people

    don’t seem to realise that when you’re in your inbox, the rotor goes automatically

    to Actions, so you don’t have to find it in the rotor, you just have to flick down

    when on the message you want to delete.

    I’m sure a lot of people know this, but I just think it’s a tip worth mentioning

    as I’ve heard a lot of people saying to go through the rotor.

    As for text messages etc. being read out in a voice like the sender’s, this frightens

    the life out of me, lol. Have you heard the Irish voice, Maire, she’s absolutely

    awful!!

    Keep up the good work.

    Blog comment from Kathy Blackburn:

    Dear 3ch Team:

    I’m writing in response to your advice to hard reset the iPhone by holding down the

    home button and the sleep button. Up until IOS Version 6, hard reset was harmless.

    With the introduction of Version 6, however, a hard reset results in the loss of

    VoiceOver, and the only way to get it back is to connect your phone to a computer

    to turn VoiceOver on in iTunes.  I emailed accessibility@apple.com, and they are

    convinced that this is not a bug, that this is what is supposed to happen.  So I

    no longer re-boot my phone this way.

    Wrapping Up

    AT&T expands FaceTime to individual iOS device users on LTE

    Massachusetts rail commuters can now use smartphones instead of tickets to ride

    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 Pete Bossley on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Jamie Pauls on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks for listening!

     

    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.serotalk.com/podcasts/3ch/3ch12.mp3

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download

      Podcasts, Reviews
      Apple, apps, Education, Games, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, Mac
     
  • Recent Posts
  • Recent Comments
  • Tags
  • Feed
Recent Posts
  • Triple-click Home extra! The watch adventure
  • Triple-click Home Episode 37: Watch for Aliens
  • Triple-click Home Episode 36: Lollipops are über Trivial
  • Triple-click Home Episode 35: mid-life crisis edition
  • Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon
Recent Comments
  • Jesse Tregarthen says: Great extra from the Triple-click Home podcast. I just wanted to comment on how great...
  • Joe Orozco says: Big fan of the podcast! Listen all the way to the end, because Hope does...
  • Beth says: Here is a well-thought-out piece. Beth https://www.marcozehe.de/2015/01/06/apple-are-losing-their-edge-also-in-accessibility-quality/
  • Saqib says: Hi. I disagree with the comment that blind people need the iPhone. I had a...
  • Christine says: I have an I phone 4s running the operating system of 8.1. When...
Tags

Android Apple apps Braille E-books Education Games iOS 7 iOS 8 iPad iPad Air iPad Mini iPhone iWork Mac Mavericks Mountain Lion Siri Steve Jobs Tim Cook Yosemite

Feed
  •    Posts Feed
  •    Comments Feed
  • Archives

    • April 2015
    • February 2015
    • January 2015
    • October 2014
    • September 2014
    • August 2014
    • July 2014
    • June 2014
    • May 2014
    • April 2014
    • March 2014
    • February 2014
    • January 2014
    • December 2013
    • November 2013
    • October 2013
    • September 2013
    • August 2013
    • July 2013
    • June 2013
    • May 2013
    • April 2013
    • March 2013
    • February 2013
    • January 2013
    • December 2012
    • November 2012
    • October 2012
    • September 2012
    • August 2012
    • June 2012
    • May 2012
    • April 2012
    • March 2012
    • February 2012
    • January 2012
    • December 2011
    • November 2011
  • Categories

    • Interviews
    • Podcasts
    • Reviews

Copyright © Triple-click Home