That Real Blind Tech Show

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Episode 107 - Seleste Smart Glasses The Most Fascinating New Product For the Blind For 2023 Dec 30, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join us as Brian sits down with Shush Mittal and Smit Patel the creators and developers behind the upcoming Celeste Smart Glasses coming in 2023.

Brian is very excited for the release of these smart glasses that have partnered with Seeing AI. Shush starts off describing what the Celeste Smart Glasses will be able to do and tells us about how the guys came up with the concept of the glasses.

The guys explain what the main differences are between the Celeste Frames and the Envision AI glasses. And we talk about their very affordable price point of $700 US.

We then discuss the question on everyone's mind, how will people be able to see what I am seeing?

To make a deposit so you can be among the first people to receive the celeste Smart Glasses please visit here, and to learn more about the glasses click here.

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Episode 106 Holiday Parties, It's Time for Fingers In the Dip Dec 21, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show.

The gang starts off discussing the announcement that Microsoft Soundscape will be going bye bye in 2023. We then discuss what our go to GPS app will be.

These people took crash detection to a whole new level!

If you had smart toilet on your holiday wish list, it may be waiting for you underneath your tree.

And Brian thought he had it bad for a bit with his Door Dash deliveries. Wait until you hear about this guy and his issue with an Amazon delivery.

We then discuss Sight Tech Global, and why you may want to wait if you have not yet seen any of the videos from this year's conference. Next up is the ACB 2022 Audio Description Gala which featured several interesting people including a clip of the Yahoo Mini Documentary The All Blind Fantasy Football League.

Will app side loading be coming to the iPhone and will it be a disaster for accessibility?

Next it is on to the latest with Twitter because Elon be flipping back and forth more times than a fat man in a water bed. Is MuskButt stepping down as CEO of Twitter? And because we can do it to, we held our first ever poll on Twitter. And finally MuskButt decided to kill Twitter Audio Spaces.

It's that time of year, so we thought we would have a little conversation about the difficulties and fun that comes with being blind at a holiday party.

And it is more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 105 - And Everything, Drink! Dec 07, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We gathered Allison, Brian and Ed to talk about the latest tech news going around.

We start off discussing a tweet about our last episode, And Everything. Drink!

You may have heard that Aira will be under going some changes. We discuss what has been announced so far.

Menus4All has launched as a paid subscription app, will you be getting it?

If you live in New York City and are searching for a job, maybe this one is for you.

Airplane mode to become a thing of the past as early as next year in the EU.

We then discuss Ed's new product and something that Allison is shockingly selling, what could it be?

Next we discuss Mastodon, and is it worth your time?

With the end of the year here we thought it would be a good time to discuss the accessibility of our financial and medical applications and websites.

Next we turn our attention to those pesky Windows and Jaws updates, as Brian had a fun experience after not turning his PC on for a few months.

Ed then had a little bit different of a dinner one night that he tells us all about.

And of course it is more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 104 - From Air Canada to JetBlue, Hassling Guide Dog Handlers Across the World Nov 23, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, and it is amazing how often podcasts imitate life. On our last episode we discussed the blind woman who was not allowed on an Air Canada flight with her guide dog. Well, Brian just was extremely hassled by JetBlue when checking in for his most recent flight about his guide dog and new policies that JetBlue has initiated for people traveling with guide dogs. Amazingly, it is not JetBlue's responsibility to alert you of these new regulations, you are just suppose to magically know them on your own. Ed and Brian discuss this experience before the gals jump on. Brian and Ed discuss how airlines are utterly failing people with disabilities.

We briefly discuss the latest people fleeing Twitter, and Brian mentions a little bit about the upcoming Sight Tech Global which you can register to virtually attend for free here.

We then move on to discussing iOS 16 and the new feature that allows you to control your iPhone from your Apple Watch and vice versa. Next we discuss iOS 16.2 and the report that there will be a new accessibility mode introduced. Is that a good thing?

With the holidays here we thought we should discuss what all of us pack in our tech go gear. Not to worry no clothes discussed here, just tech stuff. Sorry no time to put the products discussed in the show notes with links as Brian has been on a time crunch and wanted to get the episode out. If you are interested in a product we discussed and you cannot find it on Amazon, drop us an email and we will find the link for you.

We then discuss Brian's recent visit to the eye doctor and try and understand how in the world people who work at a world renown eye hospital can be so utterly clueless when it comes to helping guide a blind person around.

No surprise, as a couple of Senators have once again drawn up a bill requiring all websites and mobile applications to be fully accessible.

And it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 103 - Twitter, The Technological Hindenburg Nov 14, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. The entire gang is here in their lair of choice.

We start off discussing the upcoming Sight Tech Global, as Brian will be the Host of this year's Virtual Conference which you can register for free to attend here.

Air Canada is the latest airline to make a blind person's life absolutely miserable while traveling with their guide dog. Will the airlines ever get it?

It happened a week ago, but we dive in to the blindness communities reaction to the entire accessibility team being laid off at Twitter. Allison educates us a little about the new social media craze of Mastodon. Or as the kids are calling it, the new Twitter. And finally just when you think things couldn't get any worse at Twitter Elon Musk goes all nuclear. And because we doubt this will be the last we talk about Elon Musk, we try and decide on a nickname for Elon Musk moving forward.

And because Zuckhead couldn't take Twitter getting all the press, Facebook/Meta decided to fire 11,000 employees, and did it by email. How classy!

Out of nowhere Amazon announced they are putting the A Lady under a performance review, which made us wonder, could the A Lady have peeked at Amazon?

We have screamed about our frustration for quite awhile about our devices and Bluetooth connectivity, so it is great to see the mainstream is getting on board with this frustration. Here are some basic tips that could help improve your bluetooth connectivity.

After a discussion about an injury a friend of the podcast had, we dive in to the good and bad we have been experiencing on Mac OS Ventura.

Episode 102 - Apple 21st Century Mafia Nov 01, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in friend of the podcast David Goldstein to the podcast.

David just popped in to NYC to join Brian and Ed at Laugh For Sight at Gotham Comedy Club on October 24th, so we thought we would have David on to help us recap the long awaited return of Laugh For Sight. This year's benefit was absolutely epic and featured Legendary Comedian Robert Klein, Aaron Berg, Ophira Eisenberg, Joe Derosa, Andy Fiori, Boris Khaykin, along with Host and Friend of the podcast Brian Mccarthy. Oh yeah, and our pal Jim Gaffigan popped in to do a set. This year's benefit was also the Inaugural What the F*ck Have the Blind Ever Done For Me Laugh For Sight Lifetime Appreciation Awards. Recipients included Robert Klein, Chris Mazzilli Owner Gotham Comedy Club, Gilbert Gottfried, and Larry Goldberg. The idea of the award is to merge the comedy world with blind tech, and who better to do that then friend of the podcast, Larry Goldberg.

After many mentions on this show during a specific segment of the show, Apple is finally redesigning iCloud.com. The beta which you can now visit is surprisingly off to a much improved start.

We continue on the positive with a fantastic story about a developer that gets accessibility.

The streaming wars are here, and prices are going up everywhere. Will you continue to stream or cut the stream? We discuss which services we are subscribed to, and mass confusion sets in. We then speculate on how the Netflix password crackdown will work as it will kicking in come January.

Even though it was announced over a week ago, we briefly discuss the new iPads launched by apple because we are a blind tech show after all. Next we discuss Mac OS Ventura and how it is currently working, or not working with VoiceOver. And finally it is on to our thoughts about iOS 16.1. The iPhone 14 just came out, so it's the perfect time for iPhone 15 rumors.

You are not alone if you think you have been seeing just a few ads for gambling in the App Store. And you thought political ads were annoying enough, could you soon be seeing gambling on political race ads?

And has Apple finally turned in to Robert deNiro from Goodfellas with their new in app purchase ad policy?

We then discuss the JackPocket app, a app to buy lottery tickets, which is surprisingly fully accessible with VoiceOver.

With the end of the year creeping up on us, we figured it would be a good time to go around and check out what all of our go to devices and apps were at the end of 2022.

Episode 101 - Passive Aggressive Fischler Voodoo Dolls Oct 15, 2022

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Now that we have gotten past our massive 100th episode celebration, it is back to podcasting as the entire That Real Blind Tech Show gang gets together to recap the latest tech news.

We start off with a mention that the All Blind Fantasy Football League Mini Documentary has an imdb page.

We start off with a congratulations as one of us lives in the filthiest talking city in the world. And its not NYC!

Wasn't the whole point of streaming no ads? Well get ready for ads coming to AppleTV. Is anyone surprised that Apple's crash detection is not working as it is suppose to?

Big Googlie Eyes may save pedestrians from silent vehicles, but what about us blind peeps?

Medical experts say it is healthy for you to disconnect from your phone. Is it possible for blind peeps to disconnect?

Google IO featured Molly Burke, but seriously selfies? We then discuss the newly announce Pixel 7 phones. Next up was the Google Pixel Watch, not quite ready for prime time. And shockingly Google Face Recognition is very far from secure. On the plus side all Google devices will be getting new TTS voices in the coming weeks.

Samsung and Google showed off how their devices will interact once the Matter Standard has launched. It's going to be pretty cool.

Facebook hosted meta Connect all about VR and AR, but will any of this tech be useful to the blind? Facebook launched the MetaQuest Pro, but what is it and who is it for? Zuckhead says the Metaverse should be open to everyone, but read closer. Meta also announced future wristbands which would allow you to control things in the Metaverse with muscle movement.

Microsoft held an event in which they announced that Apple will be bringing more services to their devices. Of course, the accessibility of them is in question. Microsoft then announced three new Surface devices with one of them starting at the low low price of $4300.

Did you notice that another Amazon Prime Day came and went?

And it is more Voicemails, What's Pissing Off Brian, and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 100 - The Clip Show Part 5 The Finale Oct 07, 2022

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We begin the final part of our massive 100th episode clip show celebration with the gang styling and freestylng on Episode 71.

With the huge success of the NumPad Commander a listener requested a demo of the keyboard commander which arrived on episode 72.

Episode 74 was our attempt of multiple host interviewing multiple guests about this year's CSUn, and the new tech center at the Lighthouse Guild, and also saw the return of friend of the podcast, Dr. Bryan Wolynski.

Episode 75 brought Aira CEO Troy Etillio and Jeanine Stanley wearing her Aira hat to the show.

Episode 76 brought Deque Systems Jon Buonaspina to the show.

Episode 77 brought Ukrainian Helger Kellanstonian to the show. Yes, another April something episode. Additionally, episode 77 brought TJ Meloy back to the show as TJ, Allison, and Brian all had recently picked up Android devices, and talked a little Talk Back and their initial thoughts. Full disclaimer, none of us are still using our Android phones now.

Episode 78 was another demo episode as Brian did a demo of the fantastic item chooser on the Mac along with a demo of the improved dictation.

Episode 80 brought Liz Gutman to the show, Head Writer of Audio Description for IDC.

Episode 81 brought YouTube's The Blind Life Sam Seavey to the show.

Episode 83 brought the recently rewired not retired Larry Goldberg formerly of Yahoo to the podcast.

Episode 84 brought friend of the podcast Joe Steinkamp back for a recap of Google IO.

Episode 85 had us venture a little out of the tech arena and ask the question, do blind people dream?

Episode 86 was our annual review of WWDC, and we were so thrilled and excited as the Geek was back for Apple Watch.

Episode 87 brought the CEO of the Miami Lighthouse, Virginia Jaco back to the show along with Jorge Hernandez.

Episode 88 was a demo of how to transfer music playlists from one streaming platform to another.

Episode 90 was our demo of the Echo Frames and some big announcements from Aira.

Episode 91 was another episode in our Trendsetters series with PodFather Rodney Edgar.

Episode 92 was our yearly recap of the NFB's resolutions.

Episode 93 brought friend of the podcast, member of The All Blind Football League, and designer of our website www.blindtechshow.com, David Goldstein to the show.

Episode 100 - The Clip show Part 4 Oct 06, 2022

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We start off our 100th Anniversary Episode part 4 Clip show with the developer of AirBuddy Guide Rambo.

Episode 51 brought the Fantastic Foursome all together on the same episode for the first time with Allison, Brian, Ed, and jeanine for what do you expect but an Apple event recap.

Episode 52 brought skateboarder Justin Bishop to the show.

Episode 54 brought us therapist and Author Rebecca Alexander and Inspiration porn.

Episode 55 brought former guest Joe Steinkamp in as a co-host to discuss a little Microsoft news.

We had a bunch of Apple announcements which then led up to Episode 57 where we spoke with Michael Kalberer.

Episode 58 was our first mention of The Yahoo Mini-Documentary The All Blind Football League that we had filmed a few months ago, and was also TJ Meloy's first appearance on the show. And Episode 59 brought the entire cast of the Yahoo All blind Fantasy Football league and the principles at Yahoo behind the project to the show.

Episode 61 was our tremendously popular demo of the powerful NumPad Commander for the Mac.

Episode 62 brought blind developer and space man Sina Bahram to the show.

Episode 63 was a special end of the year Festival What's Pissing Off Brian Now. Because what says anger more than the holidays?

Episode 64 brought fellow podcaster and friend of the show Steven Scott on for a chat about the new show he was launching, Blind Guy Talks Tech.

Episode 65 brought Accessibility Evangelist Samuel Proulx from Fable to the show.

On Episode 66 we began to see the light out of the pandemic and the virtual studios became That Real Blind Tech Show Lairs.

Episode 67 brought us Eric Wickstrom from IDC for a conversation about audio description.

Episode 68 was a demo of the Spectrum Cable App with Cloud DVR.

Episode 69 brought all of us together for our Mac versus PC Smack down.

Episode 70 was a demo of the fantastic Mac mail client and a demo of what a disaster iCloud.com still is with VoiceOver.

Episode 100 - The Clip show Part 3 Oct 05, 2022

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Welcome to part three of the That Real Blind Tech show 100th Episode clip show.

We start off at episode 31, which was an absolutely classic recording.

Episode 32 brought in comedian friend and former Warm Up Comedian at The Late Show with David Letterman, Eddie Brill.

Episode 33 brought us the first Brian flying solo episode and our first demo which was Amazon Prime and Audio Description.

Episode 34 was the first of our only two part episode as it brought Legendary Comedian and Laugh For Sight Headmaster Robert Klein.

Episode 35 brought us our fill in co-Host Jeanine Stanley. She filled in for Allison and the chemistry was pretty good so we kept her around.

Episode 36 was our conclusion of our very special two part episode with Robert Klein.

Episode 37 brought us the first trifecta pairing of Allison, Brian and Jeanine for an Apple recap. However, more importantly, Episode 37 brought us the new That Real Blind Tech Show theme music produced by our good friend Patrick Lafayette.

Episode 38 and 39 brought us some demos by Brian, the first was how to turn off Amazon Sidewalk and the next was the Ultimate Sonos Demo.

Episode 41 brought us our first review of a Microsoft Keynote.

Episode 42 brought us another in our Trendsetters series as we welcomed David Woodbridge to the show.

Episode 43 was another super cool super solo demo by Brian, this time on HBOMax and the Apple TV app which makes fantastic use of the now playing list for all your services except Netflix.

Episode 44 and 45 were our recaps of the NFB and ACB virtual Conferences.

Episode 46 brought us Carl Richardson from the Audio Description Project.

Episodes 47 and 48 brought us demos of the Yahoo Fantasy app and its amazing track record of accessibility and the Underdog Fantasy app.

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