Quick Tips

In this podcast, Jay shows us how to access and use the controls which lock or unlock the screen orientation on your iDevice. These enable you to lock the orientation into portrait mode, which prevents it from automatically switching to landscape as you move your iDevice.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge demonstrates a new feature recently added to the Read2Go iOS app which now allows you to download DAISY books from sources such as Vision Australia using the “Open In” function, removing the necessity to transfer them via iTunes.

In a follow-up to his previous walk-through of this app, AnonyMouse talks us through some of the new features which have been added to the lire RSS reader in recent updates.

In this podcast, Michael Hansen shows us how to enable and use push notifications in Twitterrific 5 for Twitter.

AnonyMouse gives us a Quick Tip on how to cut down the time, and speed up the process of retrieving articles from the lire (Full-text RSS) app. Find out how this alternative, simple and easy change to your settings can save you minutes.

To find out more information about the lire (Full-text RSS) you can visit the app entry right here on AppleVis at:

http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/news/lire-full-text-rss

In this podcast, David Woodbridge introduces us to OneTap, an iOS app that adds speed dial functionality to your iPhone.

IN this podcast, Moopie Curran shows us how to edit, add, and manage playlists using the free VLC media player on the Mac. She also gives a few keyboard chortcuts for beginners.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge demonstrates how using the iPhone's autodial feature will allow you to log in to automated systems without using the touchscreen.

In this edition of the AppleVis Podcast, Bill Spiry from EarlSpeech.com shows us how to customize Earl, an accessible newspaper app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. He demonstrates how to Use the FAVORITES feature to create a personalized newspaper list, and how to use the SETTINGS feature to adjust Earls speech rate and select from any of Earl’s five high quality male and female text to speech voices--all using Earl’s tap and speak voice user interface.

In February 2013, we posted Bill's introduction to Earl, which can be found here.

In this podcast, Neal Ewers gives us an introductory overview of some ways that you can use Siri to increase daily productivity.

Neal takes a look at setting alarms, reminders, sending text messages, making phone calls, obtaining word definitions, and more.

Also mentioned in this podcast is the iOS app FiRe 2 - Field Recorder, which is available from the iTunes App Store for $5.99.

In this podcast, Marrie shows us an alternative method to that demonstrated by David Woodbridge in a previous podcast for creating files that will open a website when clicked. This allows you to use these as web link bookmarks which can be accessed from Finder or the Desktop on your Mac.

The method described here should also work on Windows, meaning that you can easily share these bookmarks across platforms and with other people.

The previous podcast and the additional comments referred to by Marrie in this podcast can be found here.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how to create and use web link bookmarks that can be launched from Finder on your Mac.

This makes it possible to have a clickable file or folder of files on your Desktop or in the Dock that take you straight to specified websites.

In this podcast, Moopie Curran gives us a demonstration of using the Mac app Fission to convert audio file formats.

Fission supports simple export or batch conversion to the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats.

Fission is primarily an audio editor, which can be used to crop and trim audio, paste in or join files, or just rapidly split one long file into many. Some use it to make ringtones.

In this podcast, Matthew Campbell shows us how to access and use the feature new in iTunes 11 that allows you to use the iSight camera on your Mac to scan and redeem an iTunes Gift Card.

In this podcast, Cokes shows us how to enable and access the column browser in iTunes. Once enabled, this addition to the view layout can improve the usability and ease of navigation for screen reader users when browsing their iTunes library.

In this podcast, Andira demonstrates how to synchronize the contacts from your Google account with an iOS device.

Here are the steps that Andira walks us through:

In this short podcast, Andrea Barker shows us how quick and easy it is to add a scanner to a Mac computer. Andrea concludes with a quick demonstration of using the DocuScan software to scan and read a document.

This podcast is primarily intended to demonstrate to anybody thinking about getting their first Mac, just how easy it is to add and use a scanner. For a blind user wanting access to printed documents, this could be an important consideration when deciding whether to make the switch from a PC.

In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how to access the Define feature in iOS when using VoiceOver.

iOS has a built-in dictionary, so if you come across a word that you don't know, you can use the Define feature to get its definition.