Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 More fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 🇷🇺 Courts in Russia Declare Meta an “Extremist Organization,” Ban App — www.macobserver.com/… (WhatsApp) 🇷🇺 Google News appears to have been blocked in Russia — […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: American Thermoform
Allison interviews Robert Jaquiss from American Thermoform about a few of their products designed for the blind or visually impaired. The Swell Form Graphics Machine allows the user to create tactile maps, diagrams, text, and graphics for a relatively low cost. It works by first printing the graphic and text onto special Swell Touch paper […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Cognixion ONE Assisted Reality Headset
Allison interviews Lucas Steuber from Cognixion about their Cognixion ONE headset that serves as a non-invasive brain-computer interface. With an appearance similar to an Oculus Quest, the Cognixion ONE headset provides “Assisted Reality” – the blending of Assistive Technology and Augmented Reality. It is a universally accessible, wearable device that enables users with a wide […]
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Do You Really Need a Dock With the Mac Studio?
This week Steve is getting a Mac Studio with the M1 Max and next week he’s supposed to get his Studio Display. As you can imagine, he’s pretty excited. He’s currently sporting a 27″ iMac quad-core i7 from 2017 along with a 27″ LG 5K display. He added an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock so he […]
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Dumb Question Becomes a Tiny Tip – Finding Full Pathname to Files
John’s Long Path Name in Spotlight In our awesome Slack community at podfeet.com/slack, John Endahl asked what he dubbed a Dumb Question. I thought I had a clever answer to his question, but Calum B came up with an answer that is a fabulous Tiny Tip. First, the problem to be solved. John asked: This […]
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Create Tutorial Guides with Folge – It’s Ready for Prime Time
In late 2020 I told you about a tool called Folge from folge.me that is designed to simplify the process of creating tutorial guides with annotated screenshots and text explanations, and then exporting them into nicely formatted documents. This was the replacement we’d been looking for when my beloved Clarify was discontinued. When I reviewed […]
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Making the NosillaCastAway Shanty
A week ago, I released the NosillaCastAway Shanty, the new “official” shanty of the NosillaCast. Since then, a few people have asked questions about how I made it so I’ll attempt to describe the process. Problems to be Solved: Nathan Evans’ Wellerman (Sea Shanty) inspired me to create a NosillaCastAway shanty with the same tune […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: RealSAM Pocket Voice-Operated Smartphone
Allison interviews Anat Nulman from RealThing AI about their voice-operated smartphone designed for people who are blind or visually impaired. The RealSAM Pocket enables the user to easily communicate by phone or text and stream content even when they can’t see what’s on the screen. RealSAM Pocket software runs on top of Android on a […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: QD Laser Assistive Eyewear
Allison interviews Samuel Presgraves from QD Laser about their assistive eyewear technology. QD Laser’s RETISSA Medical technology uses laser retinal scanning to assist patients with low visual acuity caused by irregular astigmatism, which cannot be sufficiently corrected by conventional glasses and/or contact lenses. RETISSA achieves this by forming an image from a camera and projecting […]
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Signia Pure Charge&Go 7X Hearing Aid Review – by Ron Heiby
Introduction I feel a bit strange about giving a review for hearing aids when I do not actually have a hearing impairment. This is about my wife’s hearing aids. But since I am my family’s CTSO (Chief Tech Support Officer), I do have a perspective on anything tech in the household. And modern-day hearing aids […]
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