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Episode 100 - The clip Show Part Two Oct 04, 2022

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It's a continuation celebration for our 100th episode, as we present you with The Clip Show Part Two.

This episode starts off at the beginning of 2021, as we welcome our good friend Allison Meloy full time to the podcast. Allison was a regular guest on iAccessVO and joined us here regularly starting with episode 14.

Our next few guests included Greg Stilson from The American Printing House for the Blind, Steve Ewell from The Consumer Technology Association, and Shaun Eli comedian friend of Brian's who worked very hard to make his website fully accessible. It was Episode 17, wow, not sure what was going on with our audio on this episode, as it was absolute crap. Episode 17 was also the beginning of Brian introducing all those fun movie clips that 95% of the listeners enjoy. We did get one email from a listener who absolutely hates them.

Episode 18 brought Jayme Schwartz from Aftershockz to the show. Episode 19 was back to our Trailblazers series with Ricky Enter and friend of the show Joe SteinKamp. Episode 21 was the web developer of Ottoneu Fantasy sports, Nav shah.

It was episode 22 that saw friend of the podcast Dr. Bryan Wolynski make his first appearance on the podcast. Episode 23 brought us Virginia Jack, CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for a conversation about web accessibility.

Episode 25 brought us our first fun with an April fools episode, as blind Olympian Henry McKeller joined the show.

Episode 26 brought over the man you have to blame if you hate Brian's editing of movie clips, Derek Lane. And staying on our sound trip, Episode 27 brought us Jim Reekes the original creator of the Mac start up chime and the iPhone camera click sound.

Episode 28 brought us Comedian friend Stacey Prussman who at the time was running for Mayor of New York City. She did not win, but that was not our fault.

To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.

Episode 100 - The Clip Show Part One Oct 03, 2022

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Join us for a stroll down memory lane. In honor of the 100th episode of That Real Blind Tech show, it is our absolutely epic five part clip show.

You will laugh, you will cry, you will learn, ok, so maybe there will be no crying, but we can guarantee a few laughs along this stroll down memory lane.

The clip show starts off with Brian babbling on about what the new show will be, then Ed pops in as Brian quickly realized he is better with Ed then without him. Our first few guests you hear include David Kingsbury author of several books helping the blind with PC production, Karen Kramer an O and M specialist with pandemic living advice, Kisiah Timmons from the Yahoo Fantasy accessibility team, and Jeanine Stanley from Aira and eventually also from That Real Blind Tech show.

The next few guests on the show included Dr. Cal Roberts, CEO of the Lighthouse Guild in NYC, our Trailblazers series kicked off with Holly Anderson and Darcy Bernard, and we welcomed in at the end of 2020, our very good friend Brian McCarthy to close out the year, and wrap up the first five months of That Real Blind Tech show.

Episode 99 - Mellow Fellow, New Apple Products and Review of iOS 16 Sep 28, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We are here primarily this episode to discuss iOS 16.0.2 and new Apple products. It is an Ed less and Jeanine less show as TJ Meloy joined Brian and Allison in their isolated lairs to discuss our new products and thoughts.

We start off discussing the 40 year anniversary of the first emoji being sent and how that day began the descent of modern civilization.

Is anyone surprised or shocked at the lengths Facebook is going to to keep on tracking all of us? Not only are they going around Apple's privacy road blocks, Facebook is now breaking state and federal law to track all of us.

If you are a gmail user, get ready to have your inbox flooded by unwanted messages from politicians.

We're all getting another Amazon Prime Day that no one asked for on October 11th and 12th. Does anyone care?

We then dive in to discussing iOS 16.0.2, starting out wondering how in the world Apple could release an operating system that left some VoiceOver users in the dark. Next we discuss focuses and under settings the missing on/off toggle for focuses. We then bring up the app switcher issue some VoiceOver users have been having and try and figure out who realized that if you turn inverted colors off, the app switcher should behave normally. We then get Brian's F*ck me moment of iOS 16, which is a bad one. Notifications are then discussed and. Door detection is here, door detection is here, just don't try using it at night.

If you do not want to experience crash detection first hand to find out if it works, definitely check out this YouTube video of some guys who tested it out for all of man kind.

And if you are noticing a battery drain on your phone you may want to consider turning off haptic keyboard.

If you have been getting bombarded with stupid requests asking are you sure you want to paste this here, not to worry those idiotic notifications will be going away in iOS 16.1.

We got new products, we got new products. Allison and TJ tell us about the new iPhone 14's they are rocking with. We then get Allison and TJ's thoughts on the locked screen new island. After our visit to the island we move on further down discussing the new Lock Screen. Allison and TJ enlighten us to the new start up and shut down chimes specifically only on the 14 models.

After the new phones, we discuss our new watches as Allison has the new Watch Series 8 and Brian went Mac Daddy with the new Watch Ultra. We talk about the on-screen typing experience, the new action button on the Ultra watch, L5 GPS and using GPS on the watch. We discuss which complications we enjoy using.

And finally all three of us discuss our experience with the new Air Pod Pro Two's.

We then listen to a Voicemail and an email we received.

Brian then plugs the upcoming Laugh For Sight at Gotham Comedy Club on Monday, October 24th, and tickets can be purchased here.

And it's a little bit of a lengthy What's Pissing Off Brian, and we get an appearance of What's Pissing Off Allison, and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 98 - Apple Recap Far Out It's Time To Stand Sep 10, 2022

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It's a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the entire gang is here to discuss and recap in our own way the Apple Far Out event.

We start off discussing the name of the event and the new Apple emergency S.O.S. for when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere or Ohio. We discuss our issues getting the event to play in Apple TV, and the opening video to the event.

We then get our iOS 16 beta testers opinion of whether or not you should install iOS 16 on the September 12th release date.

We discuss Apple moving to eSim iPhones only in the United States.

Our watch coverage begins with us discussing an odd arrival time for those it's time to stand notifications and then gets in to the always on display. The ladies then chime in about the new ovulation tracking coming to the new watches.

We get a little sidetracked with the innuendos, but hey that's what you tune in for. After Giggles gets it all out, we discuss the new Watch SE2. It's then on to the new Apple Watch Ultra, and one of us has already placed an order for it.

Next up we discuss the new Air Pod Pros with double the noise reduction. And on Apple announcement day, Bose attempted to steal some of Apple's thunder by announcing their new Quiet comfort Two ear buds.

Apple announced four new iPhones starting out with the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus but these phones will be running last years chip. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will introduce the new dynamic island on the Lock Screen. We are quite curious how all of this will work with VoiceOver. Even though most blind peeps feel blah blah when Apple discusses the camera improvements. We discuss what the improvements mean for text scanning applications and Aira.

And finally we play some messages and emails we have received recently. We promise to get better at playing and reading your emails on future shows. You can call us at 929-367-1005 and tell us what you like, don't like, agree with, or want to hear us talk about. Or email us in at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com. And as long as Brian gets his head out of his ass and remembers to put the emails and Voicemails in the outline, we will get to them.

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

Episode 97 - The Return of the Ed Aug 28, 2022

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The gang is back together again after Ed's European Vacation.

We kick things off discussing the new alliance between Aira and Envision glasses. Does this change anything for you?

Twitter because it doesn't know what it wants to be is getting in to podcasts now.

Tesla wants videos of its self driving technology running over dummies of children taken down. Will negative feedback slow us blind peeps from eventually getting behind the wheel?

We are big fans of the Sonos speakers, and rumor has it that their next gen speakers will have directional audio.

We mourn our friends Blind Guy Talks Tech as they transition to Double Tap fully. We have some advice for Steven, please for the love of all that's holy stop attempting to do a New York accent!

We then start discussing how close we are to the release of iOS 16 and all the VoiceOver issues we are still hearing about is quite troubling.

We then catch up with Ed and review his trip to England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, and find all about the World Blind Baseball Tournament he participated in.

After we examine Amazon's downward spiral with accessibility across all of their apps. And one of us is just absolutely tired and worn out of reporting nonstop accessibility issues.

And it's a very special What's Pissing Off Brian Now as we also get the first ever What's Pissing Off Ed, and it is a can't miss that will make you so so so mad!

And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Our apologies to those of you who have emailed us in and left voicemails, we plan to get to them on the next show, blame Ed for the long ass recap of his vacation as we ran a little long.

Episode 96 - We Got More Resolutions, ACB Style Aug 14, 2022

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It's a packed again That Real Blind Tech Show lair as we dive in to the American Council of the Blind's recently released 2022 resolutions. And are we really positive that it is not the American Council For the Blind? And if so, why not?

Some of the jokes are a continuation of our last episode as we recorded both of them together but after an epic historically long recording session, we broke it up in to two episodes. So if you are wondering why we find beeping getting faster and faster kind of sexual, then go listen to the last episode to find out why door detection is just so damn sexy!

You will not want to miss an absolutely classic experience that happened with an Air Pod while recording this episode. Strange stuff. And it was so classic it happened twice, and we left almost all of it in for your enjoyment as it is not always smooth sailing recording That Real Blind Tech show.

Here is the link to all of the ACB's 2022 resolutions we discuss in this episode.

And we actually did save the best for last, to capitalize or not to capitalize braille!

Episode 95 - Door Detection Is Damn Sexy Aug 08, 2022

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It's a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the usuals Brian and Allison are here and joined by Jeanine and David Goldstein as Ed tours all over England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, not Neverland which as Brian learned on the last podcast is a totally different place.

You may have heard that crypto theft is on the rise, well Nomad has decided to let the thieves and pirates keep ten percent of their stolen bounty if they return the other ninety percent.

Apple is rumored to be launching a HomePod mini with a screen. It's the yearly promise of Siri getting smarter, our Beta testers of iOS 16 chime in, and also let us know how door detection works. Unfortunately, passkey our method to a password less future will not launch when iOS 16 launches, and the feature will be bringing us more use of QR codes.

HBOMax and Discovery Plus will be merging in to a single streaming service. And Amazon has acquired iRobot.

It's a very important What's Pissing Off Brian Now and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 94 - Some What Wonky Jul 31, 2022

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The gang is back together again to discuss the latest greatest tech news.

We start off discussing the Zuckhead as he wants to ruin your Facebook and Instagram timelines even more then he already has done.

Interestingly, employees are more concerned about working in the Metaverse than employers.

Next we answer the age old question, why do sighted people make so many more buttdials than blind peeps?

Amazon Drive is going bye bye, will anybody miss it? This then leads us in to discussing our current cloud services that we enjoy using.

This interactive map highlights the most famous person from every city. Unfortunately, the map is completely inaccessible.

Kamala Harris was mocked for using gender specific pronouns and describing what she was wearing to an audience of disability leaders. We try and avoid the politics but thought we needed to discuss our thoughts about this.

It's then a special early edition of What's Pissing Off Brian Now, and if you are a guide dog user, you will not want to miss this.

We then check in with Allison, as she is the only one on the team who is running the iOS 16 beta. We find out about focus issues, notifications, and if she has tested door detection yet? The sighted community is claiming that dictation in iOS 16 beta 4 is amazing, but what about the VoiceOver community? Apple has already ruined one of the most exciting features in iOS 16 beta 4, the ability to edit text messages is now just stupid!

The new M2 Mac Air is here. The new M2 Mac Air is here! How was the setup process? What the heck is granting kernel access to a program? The big brain on Allison explains. We then discuss why Apple can't get TouchID right. We then discuss the debacle known as the Mac App Store and using it with VoiceOver.

We say goodbye to Ed, not to worry, it's just for the month of August, and find out what Ed will be up to.

Join us on Thursday, August 4th to learn how to play fantasy football and about the fantastic accessibility of the Yahoo Fantasy iOs app. Join members of The All Blind Fantasy Football League as we discuss our history of playing fantasy football, why we play, what we like, different styles of play, and more. This event is being hosted by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, and registration is required. You can register for free here.

And it is a very memorable Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 93 - How to get Zoom Bombed, Influence People, and Lose Friends. A Conversation with David Goldstein on Podcasting and Web Design Jul 24, 2022

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in good friend David Goldstein to the podcast. David is a long time member of the All Blind Fantasy Football League, a web designer and marketer, and a fellow podcaster.

We start off discussing the Podcast Roundtable that all of us were on, on July 6th, and presented by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library.

We then go back to the beginning of David's vision loss. David walks us through his early years, the 18 surgeries he has had, and how he has learned to cope with his vision loss.

We touch a little on Fantasy Football as the season is approaching and David is a long time member of the All Blind Fantasy Football League and was featured in the Mini-Doc that Yahoo Fantasy produced about the league. If you have not seen the video, watch it here.

David is a member of his local NFB Chapter. We dive in to his role with the chapter, and what he likes about the NFB. David recently started helping out at a BEP stand. We learn about the accessibility tools used at the stand, and a little bit about the BEP program.

David is a fellow podcaster with two shows, iCantCU and White Canes Connect. We discuss how David got started in podcasting, and what he likes most about podcasting. We find out how difficult it is to do a solo show, you paying attention here ed?

We then discuss David's work designing the all new www.BlindTechShow.com website, how he got in to web design, how he became familiar with Wordpress design, and making accessible websites.

You can keep up with David on and find him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Episode 92 - NFB Recap 2022, We Got Resolutions To Discuss Jul 15, 2022

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It's a fully packed That Real Blind Tech Show lair as the entire gang of Brian, Ed Allison, and Jeanine are all here to discuss a recap of the NFB Conference and some other current tech topics.

We start off with the very self indulgent uber exciting news that we have finally launched our own website, www.BlindTechShow.com. Brian learned if you don't capitalize the letters to our name, it sounds very weird in the outline for the show. A very special thanks to friend of the podcast, David Goldstein for building our website. Check it out, we guarantee you will love it.

The iOS, iPad, and we think Mac OS public betas are now live. Will you be a beta tester or not? We then talk about AppleVis finally getting with the times and finally allowing beta testers to discuss the beta operating systems on their website.

YouTube is finally rolling out picture and picture on its iOS app, but none of us are happy about it.

Conference season is mostly over. We start off discussing how each conference handled hosting a conference as we continue to live in a pandemic world. We get Jeanine's thoughts about what she got to check out and enjoy at this year's NFB Conference, besides coming home with Covid. Jeanine walks us through all the Braille, yes, Braille with a capital B, devices that she got to put her hands on at the conference. And yes, she asked permission before touching any of them!

With both the ACB and the NFB presenting resolutions to Congress to help improve the lives of the blind and visually impaired, are they canceling each other out by not having one direct united approach to Congress?

We discuss this year's NFB resolutions, and would have posted the link in the demo, but at the time of writing this the NFB's website now says page not found when trying to read this year's resolutions. Hmm, very strange stuff.

We threw this article in to our discussion of the NFB's Resolutions 13 and 14 about Lift and Uber, as CNN published this fantastic article about how ride share services are still failing disabled customers.

Even though Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, we discuss what we purchased this year, or didn't purchase.

We then discuss why bluetooth remains an incredibly frustrating technology after two decades, and who bluetooth is named for.

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

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