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Triple-click Home Episode 29: Eat Something

jpauls — Fri, 23 May 2014 20:35:19 +0000

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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:

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Thanks for listening!

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

jpauls — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:09:09 +0000

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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.

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:
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Thanks for listening!

Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

jpauls — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:40:18 +0000

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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

Triple-click Home Episode 23: Earth to iTunes

jpauls — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:43:40 +0000

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Apple gave us so much to talk about this month that it was hard to know where to start. That said, the Triple-click Home team along with special guest Justin Romack gave it their best shot. There is one other very special guest who appears briefly in this podcast. We’ll give you a hint—think That Android Show and it isn’t Joe Steinkamp. Finally, Alena Roberts visits with Alex McMillan, who was the original lead developer of the very popular iOS game Zombies, Run!

Stories covered in this episode include:

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

Flybridge

About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9

My Review of the iPhone 5S | MacForTheBlind

Apple Launches iPhone Tips and Tricks Guides

Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome.

iOS 7 nabs more than 50 percent of Apple users in first week

What’s New in iOS 7?

A low vision user’s view of iOS 7

Apple releases iOS 7.0.3: iCloud Keychain, iMessage fixes, sensor fixes, Touch ID improvements

Ahrendts Hire Emphasizes Apple’s Focus on High End

Gold iPhone 5s Sells for $10K on eBay

iPhone Map Leads To The Tarmac At Fairbanks Airport

Martha Stewart Angers Apple With Broken iPad Tweets

Meet the woman behind the voice of Siri

After 30 years, lost ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule’ finally recovered

Contacting the Team

Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

jpauls — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:23:41 +0000

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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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Triple-click Home Episode 13: We Win

jpauls — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:11:00 +0000

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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 9^th

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:

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Thanks for listening!

Triple-click Home Episode 12: Blind People Gotta Rock

jpauls — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:42:33 +0000

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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

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Follow Jamie Pauls on Twitter

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Thanks for listening!

Triple-click Home Episode 11: Samantha Drives Me Bonkers

jpauls — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:51:57 +0000

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Welcome back to yet another episode of the Triple-click Home podcast. As you may recall, Alena Roberts was unable to participate in last month’s show, and her absence was greatly missed. She is back this month, and takes a firm hand as this month’s host. It’s a good thing, too, because Apple’s announcement of new iPads, Macs and Macbooks had Buddy Brannan, Pete Bossley, and John Panarese each wanting to weigh in with their opinions. Speaking of John, he spent part of his birthday recording this month’s show. Now, that’s what we call dedication! Jamie Pauls drops by with a quick review of the AccessWorld app for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Along with Jamie’s review, here are the stories discussed in this month’s episode:

Apple introduces new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display

Mac Mini updated in two new flavors, at $599 for i5 dual-core and $999 for i7 quad-core server m

Hands on: Apple updates iMac with gorgeous new display

Apple joins hybrid storage market with Fusion Drive

Google and Amazon can breathe a sigh of relief as Apple skips competing on price withiPad mini

With new iPads, Apple targets education opportunity

TIM COOK: ‘We’re Extremely Sorry’

The Biggest Threat To Apple Right Now

Mapping a Path Out of Steve Job’s Shadow

What is Particle and why did Apple buy it?

Lockitron plans to help you unlock your door with your phone

Exchange/iOS “meeting hijack” history goes back well before iOS 6

Our tests find ‘purple haze’ effect isn’t limited just to the iPhone 5

Apple looking to add character to text-to-speech voices

The iPhone 5, my thoughts and Opinions by John Panarese

Who knew wi-fi could be so fun?

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!

Triple-click Home Episode 10: Disrupting Is What They Do

jpauls — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:01:41 +0000

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In the absence of Alena Roberts who was training with her new guide dog at the time of recording, uddy Brannan, Peter Bossley and John Panarese forge ahead with this month’s show. There was no shortage of topics this time around, and as might be expected, iPhone 5 and iOS 6 dominated the discussion. Nevertheless, there are some surprises along the way as well as an interview with Michael Hanson of the AppleVis Web site which was conducted by Jamie Pauls. Stories covered in this episode of the Triple-click Home podcast include:

iPhone 5 review: Newest Apple smartphone blends beauty, versatility

iPhone 5: What we didn’t get

What You Need to Know About Apple’s New Lightning Connector

Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller on NFC, Wireless Charging and the Lightning Connector

SeroTalk Podcast 124: Big Ol’ Crunch

iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Sell Out in An Hour

The Worst Thing About the iPhone 5 Is Also the Most Brilliant

Apple Shows Improved iPod Nano, Retina-Display iPod Touch with Siri

Apple: We didn’t pass iPhone, iPad device IDs to FBI

Apple win whacks Android resale prices

Fleksy is an alternate text input tool for the visually impaired

Apple in talks with cable operators to use Apple TV device as set-top-box

A Cautionary Tale: Do not move or rename your iCloud folder

Finally, Facebook Speeds Up Its iOS App

Parallels 8 vs. VMWare Fusion 5 Benchmarks

The iMac is a great machine until something goes wrong. Here’s why you might think twice about buying one

a Review of The XPrint Server by Mike Calvo

Apple Makes Last Minute Accessibility Fixes to the App Store Ahead of iOS 6 Release

Instructions for mapping the capslock key to work as VO keys

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Triple-click Home Episode 9: The Slide to Unlock People

jpauls — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:29:47 +0000

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Introductions

Pete Bossley takes the lead role in this month’s episode of the Triple-click Home podcast. After brief greetings all around, Alena Roberts talks about her experiences with a new Braille display and its lack of documentation for the Mac. Here is a link to Apple’s Braille display support page.

Next, the team moves on to …

The Big Story

OSX Mountain Lion Review

Apple: Mountain Lion downloaded 3 Million times in 4 days

Getting started with Voiceover and Mountain Lion

In Other News

Apple Profit Margin May Be Starting To Decline:

The Mac App Store’s Future Of Irrelevance

Why it makes sense for Apple to invest in Twitter

Apple: Samsung, you owe us $2.5B in damages.

Apple doesn’t have to post Samsung apology yet

Justice Department slams Apple, refuses to modify e-book settlement —

SSH to your mac remotely using iCloud

Apple to enhance mobile security with Authentech buy

Review: The iPhone on Straight Talk

Rumor Mill

iPhone 5 NFC roomers

iPhone 5 photos, fall release

Apps

Fleksy

TextDetective

New HumanWare iPhone app will get deaf-blind and sighted people talking

Reviews

This month, Lisa Salinger compares Fleksy, the native iOS keyboard and TypeInBraille. She discusses when you might use each of these approaches to typing on your iOS device. Also, listen to Ricky Enger’s interview with the Fleksy team from the NFB 2012 summer convention.

Feedback

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Triple-click Home Episode 8: Why Can’t I Dictate My Password?

jpauls — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:27:34 +0000

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Welcome to another lively episode of Triple-click Home. This month, Alena Roberts, Buddy Brannan and Pete Bossley are joined by John Panarese of Mac for theBlind to discuss all things Mac and iOS. Then, Jamie Pauls visits with Bill Frowline of Northwest Mobile Development about several new iOS apps he is working on including a Braille Reference app. Here are the stories discussed on this month’s show:

Mac

Apple – OS X Mountain Lion – Move your Mac even further ahead.

CNET: How to prepare your Mac for Mountain Lion

CNET: Hands on with Apple’s MacBook Pro with Retina display

MacBook Air or MacBook Pro? The decision just got a lot harder

The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

A 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro is coming soon, analysts say

iOS 6

Apple unveils iOS 6 with 200 new features, updated Siri

9to5mac: Will your iOS device get all of the new iOS 6 features? Here’s the official word

Apple selects TomTom as primary iOS 6 maps provider

CNET: iOS 6 has a useful Do Not Disturb feature. Here’s how it works

Apple demos new Passbook for iOS6

Apple’s iOS 6 to add privacy controls for user contacts

Report: Apple to give podcasts their own app in iOS 6

General Tech

Apple to kill off Ping after all

Verizon Introduces Shared Data Plans for Smartphones, Tablets

Square Registers 2 Million Users

Apps

Calling for beta testers – typing application for blind

Feedback

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Triple-click Home Episode 7: Speaking of Electric Sheep

jpauls — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:15:59 +0000

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This month, Buddy Brannan leads the Triple-click team in a discussion of the top Mac and iOS news of the month. Here are the stories they discuss:

Mac

New MacBook Pro Coming Next Month at WWDC: Retina Display, Thinner, SSD

Apps using global hotkeys will remain welcome in the Mac App Store

Battle of the Betas: Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion

Apple wins patent for 4G MacBook connectivity

Navigate the Dock in Mac OS X with These 8 Keyboard Shortcuts

Hands-on with five antivirus apps for the Mac

iOS

Verizon: You can have unlimited data… just no device subsidies

Steve Jobs involved in design of future iPhone, says report

iPhone 5 Rumors Round-up, Might Look Like This [Pics]

Apple on Siri lawsuits: Throw them out and be done with it

Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia

iPhone News – Portable Fuel Cell Charge Can Charge Your iPhone For Weeks

Every iPad mini rumor there’s ever been — all in one place

Apple’s iOS 6 to bring Siri to iPad?

Secure online voting on iOS and Android

ZDNet – Apple may finally be providing their own mapping solution in iOS 6

Wake up call: 59% of mobile apps don’t earn enough to break even

AT

Can Sendero Meet the Challenges and Offer a Full-Featured GPS App That People Will Actually Buy?

How the blind are redefining the iPhone

Entertainment

Screenwriter Sorkin will consult with Woz to pen Steve Jobs biopic

Viacom, Time Warner kiss and make up over iOS app streaming

Foxconn chief weighs in on Apple television. Or not

How Tommy Edison the Blind Film Critic Became a Youtube Sensation:

Interview

This Month, Mike Calvo talks with the CEO of iDevices.com about the iGrill, an accessible thermometer for your IOS device. Mike uses this solution along with his Bradley Smoker.

Contacting the Team

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Triple-click Home Episode 6: Underpants Are Funny

jpauls — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:34:13 +0000

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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Triple-click Home podcast. This month, Alena Roberts, Buddy Brannan and Peter Bossley approach the top news stories of the past month with a generous supply of tongue-in-cheek humor and plenty of opinions to go around. We trust that you will enjoy this month’s show.

iPhone

Fresh iPhone 5 rumors: Modified chip, new body, bigger screen

AT&T’s iPhones: Free at last

No human interaction required: AT&T iPhone unlock can be done via iTunes (Updated)

Verizon to start charging $30 upgrade fees on April 22

Security

Are Macs safer than PCs?

Java updates for Flashback avoid OS X Tiger and Leopard

Six Tips To Make Your Mac Safer

Worried about Mac malware? Just set up OpenDNS.

Facebook, Dropbox iOS apps contain security hole that could allow identity theft (Updated)

Mac

Updated MacBook Pro to See Significant Performance Boost with Ivy Bridge

iTunes

iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship

iTunes 11 rumored to include under-the-hood changes, iCloud support

Quick Tips

Monday Tech Tip: Labeling buttons on an iOS device

How to fix 95 percent of iOS app crashes

Apps

Say Zello To The World!

Zombies, Run!

Flipboard

iPad

Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met

iPad may join Aspirin, Heroin, as generic name, branding experts say

Contacting the Team

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Triple Click Home Episode 5: How We Envy Thee

jpauls — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:44:20 +0000

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Pete Bossley, Buddy Brannan and Alena Roberts are back with another episode of the podcast. What are their impressions of the new iPad? What are their predictions regarding the coming iPhone? Stick around for those stories and more!. Stories discussed in this episode of the show include:

: The new iPad

Hands on questions answered about the new iPad and new Apple TV:

What does the new iPad tell us about the upcoming iPhone:

Read this before you buy the new iPad

: In the News

This American Life retracts hugely popular episode on Apple and China

AT&T Loses Throttling Case, Pays $935 to Customer

If you’re looking to squeeze a little more battery life out of your MacBook, this app can help

iOS 5.1 Battery Life is Significantly Improved

Why Apple doesn’t need to innovate to stay ahead of the competition:

The New Apple TV Will Finish What The Mac Started: Killing Off Discs

IOS or Android for the visually impaired: 9 reasons that count

Tether relaunches for the iPhone

Announcements:

Apple now has a number for accessibility support. 1-877-204-3930

Updated list of braille displays supported on IOS devices:

Blind Bargains App for iOS Released

Blindfolded! – Macworld 2012

Tech Doctor Podcast: Blindfolded

The First Philadelphia VoiceOver Event

Triple Click Quick Tip

In this month’s quick tip segment, we learn how to delete a book from an iOS device from within the Audible app.

Wrapping Up

Construction begins on Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data center expansion

Man Sues Apple, Says Siri ‘Does Not Perform as Advertised’

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Triple Click Home Episode 4: Beefed Up Book Reader Thing

jpauls — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:08:55 +0000

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Alena, Pete and Buddy return again this month with a lot to talk about and plenty of definite opinions to share all around.

In The News

Apple Mac OS X ‘Mountain Lion’ takes more bites out of iOS

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than it sold Macs in 28 years

Apple responds to iOS contact data sharing: ‘It’s a violation’

Rumor Mill

Apple to announce the iPad 3 on Wednesday, March 7?

Supplier Chatter Points To Smaller 8-inch iPad

iPhone 5 could see June debut at Apple confab, report says

Security and More

Apple’s Android nightmare: Google’s Motorola purchase gets EU OK

Does Apple lull Mac owners into a false sense of security?

AT

Jailbreaking Your iPhone 4S Or iPad 2: Not Nearly As Scary As It Might Sound

iPhone Tactile Screenshot Quick Reference Guide

Why it’s time for the 13-inch MacBook Pro to go away

Georgia Tech’s BrailleTouch is a Braille writer for iPhone

Listen to CSUN coverage on SPN Radio, formerly SAMNet Radio.

Triple Click Quick Tip

Quick Tip: Did iOS 5 Delete Your Apps, Music, and Data? Here’s Help

Education

Everything you need to know about the Apple Education Announcement from Gizmodo

Why iPad Textbooks Are Still Too Expensive for Schools

Braille Under Siege As Blind Turn To SmartPhones

BrailleLiteracy – Braille Comes Unbound From the Book: How Technology can Stop A Literary Crisis

Apps Apps and More Apps

This month, the discussion of apps begins with:

Buddy’s new Aftershokz Wrap-around bone conduction headphones

Listen to Mike and Buddy’s review of these headphones on Serotalk 96.

Next, Alena follows Buddy’s lead from last month and talks about her new iPhone 4s.

Finally, Pete talks about Net Master, an app he uses with his job.

Contacting The Team

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Triple-click Home Episode 2: Extra Thingies

jpauls — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:11:31 +0000

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We start the show with some big non Apple related news. First up, we welcome our new host Alena Roberts to the program. Then, we thank all of you for making the show one of the most popular of the new series on the SeroTalk podcast network. The numbers of listeners were through the roof! Thank you for tuning into our show..

In The News

FBI uses Carrier IQ Data

Want to know more about Carrier IQ? Check out SeroTalk 87

Why android will be laggier to iOS

Is Apple using patents to harm open standards?

Are you paying Apple too much for E-Books?

Animated Beatles Yellow Submarine hits iBooks for free

Goodbye textbooks, hello iPad

The iPad is not a PC, and neither are Windows 8 tablets

Broken By Design

In this portion of the show we focus on apps that seem to be broken upon release or who have been broken through an update over time.

Apple’s Newsstand