In our 998th podcast, Lisa Salinger describes the setup she uses to run her Apple TV through a stereo without the need for a TV.

Here is a link to purchase the converter discussed in this podcast.

In this podcast, Mike Malarsie gives us a quick demonstration of how to use the Uber app for iOS. Topics covered include how to set up the app, how to schedule a ride, and how to rate your driver.

In this podcast, Sheri Wells-Jensen demonstrates Random~Number by PocketLab.

This free app is great for activities such as rolling dice, picking lottery numbers, flipping a coin, and about anything else you can think of.

In this podcast, Mike Malarsie shows us how to access and use the VoiceOver Keyboard Commander, a nifty feature for Mac users which allows you to create and use custom keyboard shortcuts to speed up a number of tasks - such as open applications, files and folders; navigate and control what’s on screen; run Apple Scripts and Automator Workflows; issue VoiceOver commands; and much more.

If you have any commands that you find particularly useful, do please share them in the comments.

in this podcast, Scott Davert introduces us to iPlayer Radio, a free app giving you access to lots of content directly from the BBC. This app is free to download.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Audio Game Hub, a free iOS app that features eight experimental mini audio games.

The included games let you play in the casino, attend the medieval archery contest, escape the dark labyrinth, fight the finest samurai warriors and improve your memory at the animal farm.

The games are:

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to BeSpecular, a new iOS app that enables the blind and vision-impaired to use the camera on their iOS device to seek assistance from BeSpecular’s community of sighted volunteers.

Using the BeSpecular app, you take one or more photos of what you need help with and attach a voice message detailing exactly what you would like to know.

The photos and question are sent to BeSpecular’s community of “sightlings”. Those sightlings who are available can reply via the BeSpecular app with a voice or text message. The recipient then rates out of 5 stars the helpfulness of the sightling.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Michael Hansen and Jamie Pauls are joined by Ged Maheux from The Iconfactory, developers of the Twitterrific app for iOS.

With Twitterrific recently inducted into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame, this was a timely opportunity to talk about the history and future of Twitterrific and the developers long-standing commitment to providing the best possible experience for VoiceOver users.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Capti Narrator, a free iOS app that will convert nearly any text content to audiobooks.

Capti supports multiple file types, including PDF, DOC, PPT, EPUB and RTF files, with support for adding content from browsers, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, Bookshare, or Gutenberg.

Free Features:

• Text to Speech: Turn any text into an audiobook; listen hands-free and eyes-free
• Save for Later: Save documents and web articles for later in your Playlist and access it even offline; synchronize your Playlist and your reading position across all your devices
• Sophisticated Navigation: Jump to the next/previous word, sentence, paragraph, heading, or page
• Screen-Reader Support: Extensively customized for VoiceOver

Premium Plan Features:

• Full-text search of your Playlist: The search algorithm is intelligent, and will guess the best matching tracks even when the exact match cannot be found
• Store and view images with text: In tracks created from EPUB, PDF, or DOC(X) documents you will be able to see both text and images
• File Size Limit: Add documents and books that are up to 100MB in size; default limit is 10MB
• Word Translation: Right-click any word in the track to translate the word to your language (available on Windows and Mac only)
• Create Playlists: Stay organized by saving tracks into different playlists.

In part 4 of his series, Scott Davert continues showing off how to use various apps with an iOS Device and Bluetooth keyboard. This time around, Scott takes a look at the mail app. Part 1 which covers basics, can be found here, part 2 covering text editing can be heard by following this link, and part 3 covering Safari can be listened to here.