In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to check the various weather information with Siri in iOS.
The various Siri commands used in this podcast:
get current weather
"What's the weather going to be like today?"
Get a weekly weather
"What is the forecast for the next week?"
"What is the forecast for this weekend?"
Get the Current Temperature
"What is the current temperature?"
"…
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast, Tunmi is back to show us The Piano on iOS, an app which allows you to play and record piano on the touch screen of your device. Get The Piano here on the App Store
In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason and Thomas Domville are joined by Sarah Herrlinger, Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives at Apple; and Dean Hudson, Accessibility Evangelist at Apple. Topics covered in this podcast include an in-depth look at new accessibility features coming later this year in Apple software for blind and low vision users, as well as a broader look at Apple's approach to making their products accessible to as many people as possible.…
In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Thomas Domville, Scott Davert, and Tyler Stephen get together to discuss the announcements made at Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote.
You can read our summary of the keynote here; where you are also encouraged to share your own opinions on what Apple did and did not announce.
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates the VIP Contacts feature of the Mail app on iOS.
Assigning a contact the “VIP” status makes finding email messages from them easier - you can use custom notification alerts for VIP contacts; their messages will be flagged when browsing mailboxes, and also stored in a smart VIP mailbox.
You can assign up to 100 VIPs, and if you use iCloud Contacts, your VIPs are available on any other Apple devices signed in to the same…
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to send and recieve SMS text messages for iPad in iOS.
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this short podcast, Graham Langford shares three quick tips on where you can use a 1-finger double-tap and hold (also known as a “long-press”) to be more efficient and productive on iOS.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to tell if your iPhone is new, refurbished or a replacement.
In this podcast, Scott Davert shows us the features available with MFi supported hearing aids or Cochlear Implant processors from the perspective of a VoiceOver user. MFi compatible hearing aids come from many manufacturers and there are numerous models supported. You can see Apple's official support page which gives a fairly accurate account of which hearing aids have MFi…
Part 3 of Khalfan Bin Dhaher's series on the Swift Playgrounds app, a fun and engaging way to learn to code on your iPad, with great VoiceOver accessibility.
IN this podcast, Khalfan Bin Dhaher brings us part two of his three part series on learning to code with Swift Playgrounds from a VoiceOver user's perspective.
In this first part of a series of podcasts, Khalfan Bin Dhaher introduces us to the Swift Playgrounds app for the iPad, and takes us through the first lesson. Swift Playgrounds is an app made by Apple for the iPad, designed to get people, young and old, started in coding in a fun and engaging manner. If not already installed on your iPad, you can get it here on the App Store.
In this podcast, Robin Christopherson of the RNIB Tech Talk podcast introduces us to Rocket , a Mac App which claims to be the fastest, smoothest Slack-style emoji picker for your Mac.
Link to App on MacUpdate.com:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/57331/rocket
In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Voice Dream Scanner, a recently released OCR app for iOS from the developer of the popular Voice Dream Reader app.
From the App Store:
Scan paper documents with the camera and recognize text. Listen using built-in text-to-speech. Save and export. Unlimited use: no subscriptions or additional charges.
State-of-the-art…
In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to use the Text Selection Rotor to select text on iOS and iPadOS.
As an alternative to selecting text by expanding two fingers on the screen, you can use the rotor to easily and reliably select text by swiping. To do this, first add "Text selection" to the VoiceOver rotor if it isn't there already by going to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, and double-tapping "text selection." Then, whenever you…
In this podcast, Robin Christopherson takes us through some nice new features recently added to Microsoft's popular Seeing AI app for iOS.
In this podcast, Graham Langford gives us a quick tip of how to customize contact labels in iOS.