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Why I Use 5 Different Apps to Take Notes

You know how we all keep trying different task management tools in the hope that one of them will help make us the productivity champion we envision we can be? The same thing happens with note-taking apps. We keep looking for that Holy Grail that will help us organize all our thoughts. I’ve tried so […]

AI Transcription from Otter.ai is Amazing AND Inexpensive

You have probably figured out that I create my content as a podcast and also as a series of blog posts. I have found over the nearly 15 years of podcasting that I don’t speak well as a solo speaker without a script. While I can sound articulate when speaking on mic to another person, […]

Dumb Question Corner – How to Copy/Paste Plain Text on iOS?

Steve Davidson sent in a great dumb question. I define great as “Clearly explained without an obvious answer, and yet I eventually figure it out.” Here’s Steve’s question: Hi, Allison. I have a stumper for you. Using my iPad, I frequently find myself putting together a document by drawing information from multiple sources (e.g., planning […]

NC #620 Apple Watch Swimming, Standard Mac Apps, BrainPort Visualization Through the Tongue, eSight Low Vision Glasses, Non-tech Podcasts, GhostReader, BeatsX

Allister here standing in for Allison this week. I have a miniature review of using the Apple Watch Series 2 for swim workouts, I’ll quickly review 26 Mac Apps you didn’t know you already had, Allison will pop by with two more videos from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, I’ll make some recommendations for podcasts […]

GhostReader Text to Speech – Guest Review by Terry Vogelaar

I am Terry from Holland and I would like to do a review of GhostReader from ConvenienceWare. Let me start by the problem to be solved. As a graphic designer, I am often the last person to see a text before it is multiplied in a huge quantity. So I need to be very good in […]

1Writer Might Convince Me to Write on an iPad (In Markdown!)

You might have noticed that I write a lot. I write blog posts all week long (in theory publishing them during the week but they seem to pile up towards the end of the week). I also write a monthly column in Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online Magazine. Today I write all of my articles using […]

Magically Turn Text Into Podcasts with Narro

I’m going to call this next subject the “Professor Maryanne Problem”. Do you find that you have lots of time where you can listen to podcasts (driving, exercising, vacuuming) but very little time to simply sit still and read long form articles? Or do you find, like me, that you’ve lost the ability to pay […]