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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 28: Turn Right On "A" Street

Welcome to another packed episode of Triple-click Home. Join JJ, Ana and Steve as they discuss all things Apple. Then, Jamie Pauls visits with David Ward

about Braille Sonar Pro, an indispensable app for referencing Braille contractions.

Because David is awesome and he thinks our Triple-click listeners are too, he has dropped the price of the app in half for a limited time, so go grab it now.

Stories discussed in this episode include:

In the News

[What's New and Changed for Blind and Low Vision Users in iOS 7.1](http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple/whats-new-and-changed-blind-and-low-vision-users-ios-

71)

Apple Ordering 90 Million iPhone 6 to Meet Huge Demand (Report)

[Apple reportedly working on expanding Siri partnerships, iWatch support](http://www.imore.com/apple-reportedly-working-expanding-siri-partnerships-iwatch-

support)

Is an Apple Credit Card the Next Big Move?

New Beacons Installed at Petco Park

How SXSW plans to use iBeacons to improve the attendee experience

[SXSW First Look: Store Shelves That Talk To Your Phone](http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/03/09/sxsw-first-look-store-shelves-that-talk-to-

your-phone/)

[Class action suit claims Apple Store POS system discriminates against visually impaired](http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/05/class-action-suit-

claims-apple-store-pos-system-discriminates-against-visually-impaired)

[Running Windows under VMWare Fusion: Remapping your Keyboard to Create an Insert Key](http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-apps/running-windows-under-vmware-

fusion-remapping-your-keyboard-create-insert-key)

Ask iMore: How the #@$& do you find anything with App Store search?

How to easily back up and restore your Mac with Time Machine on OS X Mavericks

Make use of the iCloud keychain

[Apple TV remote: 7 amazing shortcuts you need to know!](http://www.imore.com/top-shortcuts-you-need-know-when-using-your-apple-tv-remote?

utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

Parcel - Delivery tracking By Ivan Pavlov

[Jawbone's 'Up Coffee' app tracks your caffeine intake, estimates when you'll finally be able to sleep](http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/jawbone-up-

coffee-app/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter)

Mailbag

Hi Guys!

Episode 27 was a pleasure to listen to, as usual.

I would like to comment on a few points from the episode

• Subsidized phones are available in other countries outside the US. As buddy said, they are available in the UK. They are also available in Germany, Ireland

and other countries. My sister in Germany started a new bill contract recently: 30 euros per month = 40 dollars, for 200 minutes and texts to any mobile

network and landlines, 300 MB of data and the iPhone 5C for the equivalent of 1.35 Dollars.

My contract here in Ireland costs me the equivalent of 55 dollars per month, 350 flexible units, i.e. 350 minutes or 700 text messages to any network,

unlimited calls and messages to my own network, 2 Terabytes - yes, I said Terabytes, of data and the iPhone 5S for the equivalent of 199 Dollars.

Not bad at all!

One point which really surprised me in the episode was the comment about paying for incoming calls. Do you have to pay for incoming calls in the USA? The

only time I have had to pay for incoming calls was when I was abroad with a previous SIM card.

• Reading Marco’s article about switching back to Windows and the reactions to it are very interesting from a social perspective. There are the Windows users

who say: Ha, I knew it all along! Then there are the Mac users who say: don’t he dare point out imperfections in Macs! And then there are the Mac users who

say: I know what he means, but now I’m stuck with this thing.

I agree with Marco in his comment about the way Apple deals with reports and requests. Most replies I have got from [email protected] read something

like: “thank you for your interest. We will pass it on to the appropriate people,

Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 27: Will You Be My Family?

This month, guest host Allison Hartley joins the Triple-click Home team to discuss the top news stories of the week. In addition to the news, Alena Roberts talks with Tom Green of Somethin...

Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

Welcome to the first Triple-click Home podcast of 2014. This month, Jamie Pauls joins Alena and Buddy to discuss the Apple news stories of the past month. John was unable to be a part of the Triple-click Home team this time around, but we trust that he will join us again next month. In addition to our plentiful crop of news stories, Jamie kicks off our new spotlight segment by talking with Shannon Reese whose daughter Eilish has Down Syndrome. Jamie and Shannon discuss the use of the iPad in Eilish's education. Apps discussed in this interview include those from The Conover Company as well as a brief discussion of the augmentative alternative communication app Proloquo2Go Of course, our podcast wouldn't be complete without your feedback, and we include that as well. Without further ado, let's jump right to the ...

Top of the News

Google Buys Nest for $3.2 Billion in Cash

CES 2014: Smart thermostat EverSense shows off ‘Aura’ iBeacons to intelligently adjust room temperature

CES 2014: iPhone/iPad Bluetooth accessories for the home & body dominate the show

Mac Sales Rose in 4th Quarter. Or Fell.

Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates

Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7

Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World

Apple patent details optical image stabilization for iPhone cameras

T-Mobile's 'Get Out of Jail Free Card:' they'll pay your early termination fee to switch

Yahoo announces News Digest, a new iOS app that provides only essential news stories

A T Talk

SeroSpectives: This Year in Tech for 2013

SPN Goes to the UN

Update to Sendero GPS

Announcing the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2013

Digit-Eyes 2.0 has a completely NEW and simplified user interface design plus NEW other New features

Opinion

Opinion: What “three revolutionary devices” will the iWatch be?

Apple Knows Exactly What It's Doing With Its iPhone Business

2014: The year of the iPhone-controlled everything

Mailbag

From Beth:

Hi, I have been researching and have found stuff about using accuators to do Braille instead of pins. Here are a few links.

Displaying Braille for Mobile Use with the Micro-vibration of SMA Wires

haptic posts on CNET

First-ever Braille smartphone could hit stores this year

The "Feel Screen": The Pros and Cons of a Tactile Interface for the Next iPad (or iPhone?)

Blog comment from Zivan Krisher

During the podcast I think it was Buddy who stated that it is impossible to turn off Zoom while VoiceOver is turned on. This is not true. I'm a low vision IOS user and often use VoiceOver in combination with Zoom. When Zoom is turned on, double tapping 3 fingers becomes the Zoom toggle. and triple tapping 3 fingers becomes the VoiceOver toggle.

Wrapping Up

This Pressure-Sensitive Case May Change How You Use Your iPhone

The strange, shady world of $1,000 iOS apps

The 12 Apps You Should Delete from Your Phone in 2014

Contacting the Team

The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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Thanks for listening!

Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 25: Welcome Back to the Present

It's hard to believe that we have arrived at the end of another year. This month, the Triple-click Home team takes a look at the top Apple stories of 2013. Also, Lisa Salinger brings us a review of the Dropbox app for iOS.

This Year in Apple News

One year, four departed execs, and a lot to be determined for Apple

So, what is Apple's next big thing going to be?

Insiders "now confident" Apple will launch lower-priced, lightweight iPhone as early as June

Apple beefs up iCloud, Apple ID security with two-step verification

Jony Ive Leaves His Mark As Skeuomorphism Concept Vanishes From One App

Apple announces WWDC 2013 details, promises new iOS and OSX builds

Tim Cook issues an apology to Apple's Chinese customers

Apple reveals details of 50 billionth App Store download

SeroTalk Podcast 153 Discusses the Accessibility of the Kindle App

WWDC 2013, A Lot of Announcements | MacForTheBlind

Apple posts OS X Mavericks preview page

Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

Voice Dream Interview by Alena Roberts

An App For All Creatures Great and Small — Zoomed In

Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

Apple's cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

Blind Bargains: A Review of the BARD Mobile App

Mailbag

Hello,

This is for the Triple Click Home team.

Perhaps you guys can cover this in the mail bag for the next podcast.

For those of you that are using Mail in standard view, with organize by conversation

enabled, in messages that contain original messages part of a reply, and it says

"see more from sender”. When you activate the link with Control+Option+Space, have

you guys found Voice Over does not do anything when you press the up and down arrow

keys after expanding the rest of the conversation?

Thank you,

Ali Moosa

Hello there!

As always, I was looking forward to the new episode, and, as always, you did not

disappoint me. It was a pleasure to listen to it! :)

• I have got very little problems with TouchID on my new 5S. Actually, when I first

set it up, I didn|t have much time to listen to all the instructions and saved one

finger print with three different fingers / right thumb and index finger when holding

iPhone in left hand and left thumb when holding iPhone in right hand. this worked

although I saved it as one finger print.

I did delete it in the meantime and saved the three digits in three finger prints.

;)

• A few days ago, you retweeted a review of Open Office - was it a CNet article_

I think it was.

Has anybody tested Open Office for its accessibility recently? I remember that this

wasn’t too good a while back. Have there been improvements? I am in the middle of

writing my PhD and don’t have much time to play around with office suites. It was

time-consuming and therefore annoying enough that I had to convert a few work-in-progress

documents from RTF to docx. Aaargh!

• quite a large number of people are looking forward to getting RTF back in Pages.

Me too! However, is there a risk that the navigability of tables in Pages is going

to go again, at least in RTF format?

• One last question for now to you and your listeners, a question for which I have

not yet got an answer from Apple nor from an Apple accessibility mailing list in

which I am active:

For links in emails and on websites we can adjust in the VoiceOver settings how they

are announced. That’s fine. Nonetheless, when there is a link in an email and I arrow-key

my way into it, VoiceOver says: “web url detected” - with a voice as if she was breathing

through a helium balloon. There must be a separate setting for this as the verbosity

settings in the VoiceOver Utility don’t seem to have an effect on this phenomenon.

any ideas?

That’s it from me.

Listen to Triple-click Home episode 24: Luxury Versus Necessity

Help us turn two in this episode of the podcast as the Triple-click Home team discusses all things Mac and iOS includeing Mavericks, iWork and iOS 7. In addition to the news and possibly a rant or two, Jamie Pauls visits with Dmitriy Konopatskiy about the recent changes to the extremely popular image recognition app TapTapSee and what we can expect in future updates to the product. Here is a direct link to TapTapSee in the app store.

Top of the News

Apple Launches OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 For Registered Developers

Apple promises to bring back missing iWork for Mac features in six months

All The Changes In iOS 7.1 Beta You’ll Actually Notice

Sendero GPS LookAround for iOS gets a nice update and goes free:

A review of five iOS navigation apps

Voice Dream Reader, Truly a Dream App

Papa Sangre II on the App Store on iTunes

Blind Bargains: Review: Bring On the Horror With Papa Sangre 2

TapTapSee becomes a paid service

Apple and Samsung together account for... 109% of industry profits

Apple still tops in tablets, despite dwindling market share

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

Pandora: iTunes Radio? Pshaw. We're doing just fine.

iPad Air beats the iPad 4 by 80 percent in benchmark tests

iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test

Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

Surprise! Apple’s now selling the iPad Mini with Retina display online

The Retina iPad Mini teardown reveals cross between iPad Air & iPhone 5s

Apple's New Fingerprint Scanner Is An Epic Fail For Some

Mailbag

Dear Triple-click Home Team,

I am a vision impaired university student and would like to share my experience with using Windows on my MacBook Pro. For the most part Windows 7 runs the best I've ever seen it run on any computer, probably because it's running on a Mac! I use both Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion 4 when working in the Windows environment when I have to. I only need to run Windows in the first place because of my Transformer, long/short distance viewer.

One thing I would like to note about running Windows on a Mac is that a Mac battery, 7 hours, will be cut down to a Windows battery, 2-3 hours when running Windows on a Mac laptop. Of course one wouldn't have to worry about battery life reduction when running Windows on a desktop Mac, but because I am a student, I need to be mobile.

One last thing I would like to note is that even when running Windows directly via Boot Camp, my MacBook Pro really heats up more than it would ever when using the Mac side of the computer - probably due to the intense graphics processing and operating system structure. Also, I noticed a few times last year that I got the Blue Screen of Death when directly running Windows. So i have to be careful not to put it to sleep to often when in the Windows environment, especially when I'm just seconds away from needing to use it in class.

Overall, in my opinion, I believe Apple handles the Windows environment really well and just to know when one wants to use the Windows environment, their going to get a Windows environment.

I would greatly appreciate it, and even more important, I believe a brief summary of this email would be good to include in the next Triple-click Home podcast for others to take note of.

From Michael

Michael's World

Visually Impaired Student

www.mts.net/~wefour

Wrapping Up

Apple will now pay you for a water-damaged iPhone or iPad

The craziest things you can plug into your iPhone's audio jack

Here's What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve Jobs

Audioboo / 2013 DJ Marathon - The Karen Jacobsen Interview In Full

Sprint and Best Buy Team Up to Give Students a Free Phone Line for a Year!

Contacting the Team

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 23: Earth to iTunes

Apple gave us so much to talk about this month that it was hard to know where to start. That said, the Triple-click Home team along with special guest Justin Romack gave it their best shot. There is one other very special guest who appears briefly in this podcast. We’ll give you a hint—think That Android Show and it isn’t Joe Steinkamp. Finally, Alena Roberts visits with Alex McMillan, who was the original lead developer of the very popular iOS game Zombies, Run!

Stories covered in this episode include:

From iPad Air to Mac Pro: everything you need to know about Apple's fall event

Flybridge

About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9

My Review of the iPhone 5S | MacForTheBlind

Apple Launches iPhone Tips and Tricks Guides

Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome.

iOS 7 nabs more than 50 percent of Apple users in first week

What's New in iOS 7?

A low vision user's view of iOS 7

Apple releases iOS 7.0.3: iCloud Keychain, iMessage fixes, sensor fixes, Touch ID improvements

Ahrendts Hire Emphasizes Apple's Focus on High End

Gold iPhone 5s Sells for $10K on eBay

iPhone Map Leads To The Tarmac At Fairbanks Airport

Martha Stewart Angers Apple With Broken iPad Tweets

Meet the woman behind the voice of Siri

After 30 years, lost 'Steve Jobs Time Capsule' finally recovered

Contacting the Team

The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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Thanks for listening!

Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 22: We're S People

What should you do while you're waiting for your i-device to update to iOS 7? Should you bite your fingernails? Repeatedly swipe your phone in hopes that Voiceover will give you some sort of a progress indicator? Why not listen to the latest episode of the Triple-click Home podcast? This month, Alena, Buddy, John, Derek and Jamie all weigh in with their thoughts on the iPhone 5c and 5s as well as iOS 7. Also, Alena Roberts interviews Jonathan Mosen about his new book, iOS 7 Without the Eye. Jonathan and Alena don't just talk about the book, though. They discuss the state of accessibility in all of Apple's products and even talk a bit about Android. Yes, you read that right--a discussion of Android on an episode of Triple-click Home. So sit back, don't touch your i-device while it's updating, and enjoy the podcast.

The music heard in Alena's interview was provided courtesy of Andre Louis. Be sure to visit his Web site and purchase his music.

Apple’s overhauled iOS 7 is coming September 18 to an iDevice near you

New Default Ringtones for iOS 7

Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

iPhone 5S sports new M7 processor to handle motion apps

Apple iPhone 5S camera promises bigger pixels, slow-mo, better image processing

iPhone 5S comes with Touch ID fingerprint scanner

Apple TV Software Update to Arrive Alongside iOS 7 on September 18

Apple TV update adds channels for Vevo, Disney, Weather & Smithsonian

Apple launches iTunes Radio on September 18

Apple’s iWork suite (plus iMovie and iPhoto) free with new iOS devices

For archives of Apple's live presentations, visit Apple's Events page

You must buy a new iPhone to use Apple’s now-confirmed trade-in program

Walmart will credit you up to $300 for your old smartphone

PayPal Beacon: Finally an Easier Way to Pay in Stores Than Swiping a Credit Card

Apple patent turns the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, 'smart home' remote control

Mailbag

This month, Laura writes us to say:

Hello, musicians:

Has anybody figured out how to use the iPad version of Garage Band with Voice Over?

I would really like to learn.

Thanks.

Laura Mulraney

The team has some great answers to this question so be sure to listen.

Regarding last month's exploding phone article, regular contributor Jenine Stanley writes:

Funny that you should mention this book. As I download it to read, I asked my dear spouse if I'd see his name in it.

He worked for AT&T for over 35 years and was on the team that chased down some of the phone freaks during their heyday.

He was also on a team of inside hackers who got to try to break things for a living within The Phone Company.

He tells me that the recent revelations regarding NSA are nothing new at all. And that's all he can tell me as he's still under certain orders never to talk about what his team did.

He will tell you though that his time on those projects was a geek's dream.

Jenine Stanley

Triple-click Home Team App Picks

Here is a link to the Apple II e emulator discussed on the podcast

New Podcast: Codename Cygnus for iOS: Play the Hero in your own Secret Agent Drama

Audioboo / Here's an all too common sound, hopefully redone in a cool way: Tritone

Contacting the Team

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Thanks for listening!

Listen to Triple-Click Home Episode 21: Finger Gymnastics

Welcome to the 21st episode of our podcast. We celebrate our 21st birthday with champagne, chocolate, and your feedback. Every party needs cake, and cake needs icing. The icing on our cake this month is an interview with Harri Pasanen, developer of MBraille, the extremely popular Braille keyboard entry app for iOS. Along with our partying, we actually discuss the most interesting news stories of the past month. Grab your favorite beverage, pull up a comfortable chair and let's get started!

Apple's cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

Report: iOS 7 may come to iPhones and iPod touches first, iPads later

7 Facts About The iPhone You Probably Didn't Know Were True

Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator

Does an iPhone really burn more coal than a refrigerator?

Top 5 secret Siri tips: How to add, find, delete, and do everything faster!

Apple's Mac sales down in July, to slide 5 percent this quarter

Apple Retail Stores making a play to sell Macs to Windows based business customers

Seemingly benign “Jekyll” app passes Apple review, then becomes “evil”

Apple bans app that wants you to throw your phone in the air

Apple updates App Store review guidelines

Announcing the Newest Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Announcing the release to the Apple Store of the first update to The Seeing Eye GPS™ app for the iPhone, version 1.1.

Downcast for OS X: Download, Play and Synchronize your Favorite Podcasts

Apple shares soar after billionaire investor Carl Icahn calls company 'extremely undervalued'

Apple's Tim Cook Talking To Investors...

Apple Acquires Video Discovery Service Matcha.tv

Judge says she won't suspend ruling in Apple e-books case

Apple e-book price-fixing damages trial set for next May

Steve Jobs movie slammed by critics -- and Woz

Steve Jobs: Genius, or Just Obsessive?

Recommended Apps

This month, the Triple-click Home Team mentions apps they are still enjoying from last month. Feel free to visit our previous show notes for those recommendations. One new app mentioned by Alena Roberts is the game Wizard's Choice.

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

Since Buddy Brannan was unable to join us for this month's episode of Triple-click Home, Jamie Pauls joins Alena Roberts and John Panarese to discuss the top news stories of the month. The team has some app recommendations to share along the way, and Alena rounds out the show with an interview with the developer of the Voice Dream app for reading books and many other types of documents on your iOS device.

Apple Took Three Days to Tell Developers About a Site Hack

Researcher claims he told Apple of Developer Center vulnerability but didn’t maliciously steal data

iOS 7 preview: Siri gets a new look, access to settings, more services, still no predictive results

Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google

With all of our talk of travel, John recommends All Access: Talking Menus.

Apple acquires navigation service Hopstop

HopStop for Windows Phone Scrapped Following Apple Deal

States Combat Cell Phone Use On The Road But Deaths Persist

How Will Apple Handle Verizon’s iPhone Shortfall?

Comparing T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon's Upgrade Plans

Here’s all the evidence that Apple is making an actual TV—and the remote will likely be your hand

iPad mini 2 with Retina display won't be released this year?

Recharging iPhone blamed for another serious shock in China

You Won't Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face

Apple should lead the move to DRM-free ebooks

How to request a refund for an iTunes or App Store purchase

App Updates: Fleksy Version 1.8 links favorites with contacts, improves responsiveness and accuracy, and adds themes There is also a new update to MBraile

Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

Listen to Joe Steinkamp's interview with the developers of the iOS game Solara on SeroTalk Podcast 162

Alena has been playing with the crossword game Word Shuffle.

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