In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast, Thomas Domville will step you through using Super Agent for Safari on iOS. Super Agent automatically fills out website’s cookie consent forms for you based on your preferences. Super Agent’s mission is to make privacy simple, by giving power to users to decide if and how they want to be tracked and ensure that their options are automatically applied with no effort.
Super Agent for Safari on the App Store
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In this podcast, Ida Grace walks us through Mindfulness Bell, an iOS app that brings a beautiful Tibetan Singing Bowl at a specified interval - or random intervals - throughout the day.
Mindfulness Bell
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindfulness-bell/id380816407
Wordle is a popular daily word game being enjoyed by millions and shared widely on social media. While not originally accessible, in this podcast, Dave Nason demonstrates how the game is made accessible through a web extension or bookmarklet, and the simple steps to do it.
Link to Accessible Wordle instructions and required bookmark text: https://minorninth.github.io/accessible-wordle/
Link to the Wordle game:…
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville and Randy Rusnak discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast, Tyler discusses and explores some storage-management features of macOS.
Note: In macOS Ventura, these features have been relocated to System Settings > General > Storage.
Resources:
Free up storage space on your Mac
In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a walkthrough and demonstration of Ballyland Rotor, an iOS app that utilizes stories, sounds, and songs to teach youngsters how to use the VoiceOver rotor.
From the App Store:
“Ballyland Rotor” is the sequel to the popular and acclaimed “Ballyland Magic” app. It is a fun iPad game specifically designed for children who are blind or have low vision.…
In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a walkthrough and demonstration of Ballyland Magic Plus, and iOS app that utilizes games to teach youngsters how to use VoiceOver.
From the App Store:
Join thousands of educators around the world and give your blind or visually impaired students a head-start in using an iPad. Ballyland Magic “Plus”, like the original Ballyland Magic app,…
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast Thomas Domville will take you step-by-step of how to enable Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio and Apple Lossless on HomePod in iOS. You will be able to enjoy a more immersive audio experience with Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, and enabling Apple Lossless, will give you a higher quality music track.
Note: Dolby Atmos spatial audio feature, is officially available only with the full-size HomePod.
Did you know that an account recovery contact can help make sure that you always have access to your account, even if you forgot your Apple ID password or device passcode? Learn how to set up a recovery contact on this podcast as Thomas Domville shows us how to add Recovery Contact for Recovery Assistance on iOS.
In this podcast Thomas Domville shows us how to get notified If you leave an AirTag or Apple Device behind on iOS. In the Find My app , you can turn on separation alerts for a device, so you don’t accidentally leave it behind. You can also set Trusted Locations, which are locations where you can leave your device without receiving an alert.
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how haptic feedback is now given to VoiceOver users when “No Item Discovered,” and tells us how it can be disabled.
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville shows us how to configure precipitation alerts in the iOS Weather app.
In Apple's heavily revamped Weather app, you can now choose to receive notifications that will alert you when it's going to rain, snow, or hail in the next hour in your current location, or other locations that you've added to the app.
Note that according to…
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville introduces us toHide My Email.
Available to iCloud+ subscribers, Hide My Email builds on the idea of Sign in With Apple by providing you with unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox and can be deleted at any time. This can be particularly useful if you need to give a company an email address, but are concerned that they will share the address with others…
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville introduces us to iCloud Private Relay.
iCloud Private Relay ensures the Safari traffic leaving your device is encrypted - so no one can intercept and read it - and it puts all your requests through two separate internet relays. The result is that no one, including Apple, can see who you are or what sites you are visiting.
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how you can now configure a number of accessibility settings on a per-app basis.
This feature allows you to enable or disable certain accessibility settings for a specific app or set of apps, including the Home screen. All you need to do is choose an app, toggle on the accessibility settings you want, and you'll then get options like larger text, reduced transparency…
In this episode, Thomas Domville Shows us VoiceOver's Quick Settings feature on iOS and iPadOS.
Activated with a 2-finger quadruple tap, the Quick Settings panel offers fast and easy access to a number of VoiceOver's settings and options, allowing you to streamline the VoiceOver rotor. You can change what's included in this panel, and the order settings are presented in, in Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Quick Settings.
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Background Sounds.
Apple says that “everyday sounds can be distracting, discomforting, or overwhelming,” so in support of neurodiversity it is introducing new background sounds in iOS 15.
According to Apple this is how background…
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us the improved image description capabilities for VoiceOver users.
Here’s how Apple describes this feature:
Building on recent updates that brought Image Descriptions to VoiceOver, users can now explore even more details…
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Live Text, a feature that allows you to quickly recognize text and select, copy, paste, and lookup in both the Camera and Photos app.
Here’s how Apple describes Live Text:
Live Text uses on-device intelligence to…
In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Alex Hall, Tyler Stephen, and Scott Davert get together to discuss Apple's 'California Streaming' September 14, 2021 Keynote.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15.
Topics covered include:
In this podcast, Majid gives us a demonstration of Eclipse, an integrated development environment (IDE).
The Eclipse platform which provides the foundation for the Eclipse IDE is written in Java and is designed to be extensible using additional plugins. It can be used to develop rich client applications, integrated development environments and other tools. Eclipse can be used as an…