Besides the Apple WWDC 2019 Developers conference which happened today on June 4 and which we’ll dedicate a full program to next week, Stephen and I covered the following topics:

Free Site Access at Sydney AirPort via the Aira Service

This will make people who are blind travelling through Sydney airport a lot more comfortable as you can use the free Aira service to get around the airport.

And no, you don’t have to have a paid subscription to use the Aira service at free site access zones like the airport or Vision Australia offices: just sign up for free.

http://aira.io/australia

New MacBook Pro From Apple

Just to say it’s out, and really really aimed at professional folks who need the power of this new MacBook Pro.

Of course, we’ll talk about the Mac Pro next week, amazing machine.

for the MacBook Pro, up to 8 cores and turbo boost up to 4.8GHZ.  $4099 for base model which isn’t to bad: well at least for Apple smile.

https://www.imore.com/macbook-pro-2019-update

My Recent Appearance on Chat Across The Pond with Allison Sheridan in episode 594: 3rd time around with first time in 2012 then 2015 smile.

Having a bit of a chat about Samsung verses Apple, and some other stuff like electric cars.

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2019/05/ccatp-594/

Windows 10 Spring Update 2019

Narrator improvements as previously talked about on TT, more large cursors etc.

, https://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=20056

VA Parramatta Store Now Can Demo the Tile Tracking System

Pop in to one of the Vision Australia flag ship Vision Stores and have a play with the new Tile tag system which allows you to keep track of keys etc and also to use the actual tag to buzz your smart phone so you can find it as well.

My Beginning Adventures In To the LIFX Smart Globe System

Just some comments on my ventures in to setting up coloured lights with my boys and the fun of using a not quite accessible app.

How Voice Computing Will Change Our Lives

Just an interesting article.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/20/18537019/artificial-intelligence-alexa-siri-cortana-google-voice-computing-james-vlahos-talk-to-me