All Cool Blind Tech Shows

One of the biggest obstacles for many people when it comes to travel is the hit it takes on the bank account. Luckily, Justin is here to show off the solution, which is Kayak. In this demonstration, he takes us through the essential components of the iOS app. He shows us how to view prices for flights and hotels, track flights using the application, and a few other handy little tricks. Kayak is also available via website and an app for Android as well.

In this podcast, James Oates demonstrates how to navigate the C-Span Radio app on iOS. He shows us how to listen to live broadcasts, check today’s broadcast schedule, and enjoy in-depth podcasts.

From the developer:

Listen to the network that covers Washington like no other.

The C-SPAN Radio app delivers live audio streams of commercial-free public affairs programming (C-SPAN Radio, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3) and audio podcasts of some of our regularly scheduled programs around the clock, wherever you are.

Hear Congressional hearings and key speeches from national and world leaders.

Our daily Washington Journal call-in program, our recap of the stories of the day on Washington Today and the Sunday network talk programs.

Authors on Book TV and rare archival audio from historical leaders and events on American History TV.

C-SPAN Radio 90.1 FM in the Washington area and on XM Channel 455.

Created by Cable. Offered as a public service.

The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play.

DJing with the world’s largest musical library!

This one is for aspiring and professional DJ’s alike. Joel shows us how to connect a

Spotify Premium

account to DJAY Pro For the Mac by Algoridium.

Once connected, DJ’s can perform to their heart’s content with the entire Spotify library through high quality streaming. The possibilities are endless!

BeSpecular. Do you want to help/volunteer in your community, but you don’t have the time? Helping your community should be simple, convenient, and fun. Now you can help someone who’s blind by using your smartphone. You can spend a few seconds listening to the question, look at the picture(s), and reply with a friendly voice note or text message. You can: * Use your eyes and intuition, which are invaluable compared to the limited capabilities of a computer.

* Help blind or visually impaired people from around the world.

Learn what it’s like to live blind.

* Do a good deed and feel amazing.

* Make a real contribution to someone else’s life.

Are you blind or visually impaired and need that extra little bit of extra help? Now you can conveniently ask your questions and know that someone who’s sighted will happily and quickly be able to help. Now you’re able to personalize your questions to find out exactly what you’re looking for. You can upload or take photos and ask a voice/text question. You’ll receive as many friendly and helpful replies as you need. As a blind user you can:

* Ask your question and receive your reply shortly after.

* Use the app in various situations, e.g. getting more detailed descriptions of items you’d like to buy online, reading the ad insert you found in the mail, understanding what’s going on with your computer when your Screen Reader won’t work, re-living memories with beautiful descriptions of your photographs, etc.

* Remain on a first-name basis, no need to reveal any personal info.

* Ask as many questions as often as you’d like.

In this podcast Alex quickly demos foobar2000 preview for iOS. Some workarounds to its shortcomings and accessibility regarding the playback screen are also explained.

Foobar2000 is an audio player for the Microsoft Windows platform. Recently, there has been much effort put into making this amazing player available for other platforms such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices.

Joining Jessica this week is Alex and Tamas with their Cool Picks:

foobar2000 on iOS

Moovit for iOS

Moovit for Android

Stalking the Shadows: Ancient Destiny, Book 1 | BJ Edwards on Audible

Jessica Rickards makes her first appearance as host of VIP. Joining Jessica this week is Alex and Tamas with their impressions on Apple’s latest announcements.

1: Apple unveils watchOS 3 with major app speed improvements

2: Apple announces tvOS improvements including dark mode, Live Tune In

3: Apple announces macOS Sierra at WWDC with Apple Pay, Auto Unlock, Universal Clipboard

4: Apple Pay comes to the Mac using iPhone or Apple Watch

5: iOS 10 coming this fall, developer beta available now and public beta in July

6: Apple announces Swift Playgrounds for iPad at WWDC, public release in fall

7: Apple announces all-new Music app with lyrics support coming with iOS 10

8: In iOS 10, Photos adds Map view, automatic face recognition and object recognition

9: Apple announces Siri will integrate with third-party apps in iOS 10

10: Apple unveils iOS 10 at WWDC 2016, new lock screen, Siri SDK, much more

Cool Picks:

foobar2000 on iOS

Moovit for iOS

Moovit for Android

Stalking the Shadows: Ancient Destiny, Book 1 | BJ Edwards on Audible

Join Jessica as she revisits Kevin Shaw, founder of Zagga TV. Find out how you, the listener, can be part of an amazing opportunity to help make the vision of entertainment for all a reality.

Listen to a demonstration of the Zagga TV website at the end of the interview

Watch a Ted Talks featuring Zagga TV

Get a 2 month free trial of Zagga TV.

Take advantage of a special CoolBlindTech listener discount when you sign up today!

In this podcast Leo explains some of the reasons why he switched from the iPhone 6s to the iPhone SE.

Alex begins a little tutorial on Audacity for Windows using NVDA.

He goes through some preferences that are useful and then shows off the interface a bit.

Future episodes in this series will cover real editing: Selection, cutting and pasting, zooming in and out to really hone in on a bit of audio you wish to manipulate. Stay tuned!