Episode 128 - A Demo of the New VoiceOver Actions in Downcast
Release Date: 06/02/2023
Episode 156 - A Conversation with PiccyBot Creator Martijn Van Der Spek
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian and Jeanine sit down with Martijn Van Der Spek to discuss his new app PiccyBot. You can download the iOS version of the app Martijn tells us all about what PiccyBot is and does. The app is specifically designed for the blindness community. Some of you may remember the app Talkin Goggles that Martijn created back in 2012/13. We find out the meaning behind the name PiccyBot. We find out how the blindness community came to discover the app and how it has been received so far. We then find out how iOS 18 could affect PiccyBot....
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Episode 155 - WWDC 24 Recap: Smooth As A Babies Bottom
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show where our show notes are written and not corrected by any A.I. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine get together to recap and give our thoughts on all the big announcements from WWDC 24. We start off with a story about a phone booth, yes, a phone booth. Elon Musk has gotten a remote tribe in the Amazon connected to the internet, and you would never guess what has happened! We then discuss the pilot for a new sitcom called Don’t Look Now. This sitcom is all about the blind starring the blind, and produced by some of the blind. There will...
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Episode 154 WWDC Look Back with A Touch of Celebrity Voice Erotica
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. It’s a threesome as someone on the show does not know how the calendar and reminders work on the iPhone. We start off insulting a member of our show, because we like to make fun of each other. It makes us feel more secure about our own lives. We kick our stories off discussing that , and yes this article is from 2024. Which leads us to a discussion about the potential rise of the . Thanks to audio can now entertain you on those long road trips. We were thrilled to learn friends of the podcast OKO has been nominated as...
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Episode 153 - Reptile Disfunction
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. With an epic week in tech, we got the entire gang here to recap it all. We kick things off about pickles, but unlike a dirty pickle, this story is about a frozen pickle. We then get a little side tracked about mice, alligators, and gerbils as only That Real Blind Tech show can do. We then get a lesson about the streets of Japan. We then discuss the the latest Jaws update. We then dive in to the debacle known as . Apple and Open A.I. are rumored to be finalizing details to have . We got our iOS 18 accessibility...
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Episode 152 - Crappy Neighborhood, Won't You Be My Neighbor
That Real Blind Tech Show
The entire gang is back together in full for the first time in awhile. We kick the show off discussing a woman who has it much then any guide dog handler! Apple has announced an event for , but it is most likely just an iPad event. Apple has struck up to possibly include in iOS 18, what would this mean for Apple’s own Generative A.I.? Apple has yanked three apps from the App Store that could create . Here at That Real Blind Tech Show we’re not always about the positive so we discuss the of WWDC. Once again only one of us was not aware of this feature, as did you know that your...
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Episode 151 - Poprocks Up Your Nose
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show minus one Ed as he is sick again, but the rest of the gang is here and well. We kick things off discussing the eclipse because why wouldn’t we? We then discuss the death of O.J. Simpson, again because why wouldn’t we? We then dive in to the tech news and start off discussing the conclusion to the and how the blindness community responded to it. And our new favorite term, has hit 2/3 of Americans. Early reviews of the Smart have not been good or kind. Will the be everything we were hoping the Humane A.I. Pin...
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Episode 150 - CSUN 24 Recap Irish Car Bombs and A Flaming Fischler
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new extra extra big That Real Blind Tech show as it’s our 2024 CSUN recap episode. It is so big that we have the ladies Jeanine and Allison recording with friend of the podcast David Goldstein and because someone who edits the show got sick we then have Brian and Ed recapping CSUN as well. It all comes together in one giant Kumbaya podcast episode for your listening pleasure. Jeanine starts out discussing the announcements made by Aira at this year’s CSUN. We’ll give you a clue it has something to do with A.I. And because Brian and Ed were not here yet,...
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Episode 149 - An Airing of Grievances and CSUN 24 Preview
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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show and the full gang is all back together. We kick the show off discussing the last episode, and Brian’s thoughts of it. We then kick things off discussing letters of recommendation and how idiotic universities and the government can be when it comes to technology. Since a lot of Labs listen to our podcast, we discuss the how scientists recently discovered a gene that leads to most Labs being obese. Who would have thunk it, but Mt. View office sucks big time according to employees. Windows is apps. Apple Podcast...
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Episode 148 - With Or Without You It's Less Gross
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Now that we are on a regular two week recording schedule, someone was missing from this episode, but of course we needed him to edit the show, hence the delay of the release. Hmm, who is not here? The gang kicks the show off discussing using Chat GPT to find information in large PDF documents. Without Brian here and after some character assassination the gang finally gets going and discusses the recent that affected a lot of the nation. This then leads to discussing how dependent we blind people are on our technology. Apple is...
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Episode 147 - Fahrvergnugen A Plenty
That Real Blind Tech Show
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as Allison, Brian and Jeanine get together as Ed fell under the weather. We kick things off discussing the brilliant clip of Larry David on the season premier of Curb Your Enthusiasm and his experience with Siri. It is must watch, and can be fully viewed . We then dive in to a story because we care about Steven Scott and the latest fiasco regarding in Scotland. A guy on Tinder 5000 women and met his wife doing it. Some how a went missing in Alabama. was broken in to three useless apps. Did you know that...
info_outlineIt’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show demo. Brian is flying solo and doing a demo of some new features to the fantastic iOS downcast app.
Brian talks about his history with the Downcast app and why people are flocking away from the Castro podcast player.
Brian starts the demo off exploring the Downcast podcast tab, and shows off some of the individual podcast customization settings. Brian walks you through the play screen settings including the different speed rates you can listen at.
He then jumps you in to the universal settings screen for Downcast.
Brian then walks you through how to create a continuous playlist with a queue and manual sort episodes to play in a unique order. He shows you how to move episodes in a playlist to set your preferences of a play order using the new action options. It is wicked cool.
You can download Downcast here.
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