In this podcast, Thomas Domville reviews and demonstrates the Voices feature, which allows you to customize multiple VoiceOver voices to suit your needs. You can quickly access these voices using the Rotor Actions or the VoiceOver Quick Settings.
How to Add VoiceOver Voices to the Voices Feature on iOS
In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates the new Stolen Device Protection feature introduced in iOS 17.3. This feature is designed to protect against the rare instance when someone has stolen your iPhone and knows your passcode.
Thomas begins by explaining the purpose of the Stolen Device Protection feature. It prevents unauthorized individuals from performing critical device and Apple ID account operations, like changing your device passcode or Apple ID password. This is achieved by requiring biometric authentication with Face ID or Touch ID, with no passcode fallback.
In this podcast, Shaun Williams gives us a walk-through and demonstration of OTR Streamer, a free iOS app that offers access to over 5000 episodes of your favorite Old Time Radio shows including:
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Purify Blocker: Fast, Clutter-free Web Browsing in Safari.
Purify is a content blocker for Safari on iOS 9 that blocks ads, tracking, and more. Purify's engine is professionally hand-crafted to optimize your browsing experience. With free regular updates, all users receive the best and latest of Purify.
In this podcast, Humberto Avila takes us through Frotz, a repository and engine for playing interactive text based fiction games on iOS.
In this podcast, WildmanJoe gives us a demonstration of Pro Football Radio & Live Scores, an iOS app that streams any NFL game any time during the NFL season (including pre-season games).
Joe demonstrates 3 of the app’s 5 tabs: Team List, Schedules and Scoring. The Scoring tab did backfire on Joe a bit, but it will be understood when it is heard.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a full walk-through of Envision AI, a free iOS app that allows you to use your iPhone's camera to scan and recognize short text, documents, your surroundings, objects, people, products, and colours.
Key features of Envision AI include:
In this episode, Ida Grace introduces eSpeak-NG, a compact open-source software text-to-speech synthesizer available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Developed by Yury Popov, eSpeak-NG supports over 100 languages and accents. It is built upon the original eSpeak engine created by Jonathan Duddington. The app acts as a compatibility layer between the eSpeak NG library and Apple VoiceOver, enhancing accessibility for users with visual impairments.
Apple flipped on the switch to enable Lossless Audio and Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music. Are you confused about what Dolby Atmos and/or Spatial Audio on Apple Music? What is all the hype around the Dolby Atmos for music? You came to the right place. Join in as Thomas Domville tell us everything you need to know about Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio in Apple Music.
In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates how to prepare your Mac for beta testing by creating a second volume on your Mac's internal disk to install and run beta versions of the operating system. This way, you can run the beta when you want, but continue to use your Mac with the current shipping version of macOS. To create a volume to install macOS betas on:
In this podcast, Khalfan Bin Dhaher introduces us to Audio Rally Racing, a newly released iOS game in which you can experience the thrill of speed and reckless driving on country roads and city streets. First you choose a car, then you can start competing in the various races and circuits available.
In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a demonstration of iTablaPro, an electronic tabla and tanpura app for iOS that sounds like the real thing.
The app is ideal for Indian Classical musicians and students. It includes support for all common taals used in Hindustani music, making it the perfect companion for daily riyaz (practice). And the beautiful Tanpura and Swar Mandal create an instant concert atmosphere!
In this podcast, Scott Davert gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Travelear: Listen to the World, a free iOS app that provides access to a selection of 3D soundscapes.
From the App Store description:
In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a demonstration of iLehra, a Lehra Nagma Player for iOS That provides accompaniment for tabla solos.
In this in-depth podcast Thomas Domville will be diving into the world of LiDAR. Where he will discuss and observe in his observation with a walkthrough of the Super LiDAR - LiDAR for Blind and the Microsoft Seeing AI (World Channel).
In this episode, Thomas Domville introduces a new feature that enables Siri to interact with and record data from the Health app for health and fitness inquiries.
In this episode, Jonathan Simeone discusses and demonstrates the autosave and versioning features of macOS. These provide the peace of mind of knowing that your work is being automatically saved as you type, and that it’s quick and easy to revert to a previous version of a document. While TextEdit is demonstrated in this tutorial, these features work in a variety of macOS apps.
In this episode, Dave Nason explores the changed gestures and button functions on the iPhone X, the first iPhone to ship without a Home button. Although these changes are demonstrated on the iPhone X, they apply to all subsequent iPhone and iPad models that lack this button.