19 episodes

welcome to Triple-click Home, a monthly podcast where we’ll discuss all things related to Apple and accessibility. This show is hosted by Alena Roberts, John Panarese and Buddy Brannan. Whether you’re looking for information about iDevices from an accessibility perspective, mainstream news about Apple in general, or you’re curious about using the Mac productively, this is the show for you.

Follow the official Triple-Click Home feed on Twitter.

You can also send us your feedback. Email comments to resources@serotalk.com or you can use iBlink Radio to leave us a comment via the iReport feature. Don’t have iBlink Radio? No worries. You can grab it for your Apple iOS device or your Android device.

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welcome to Triple-click Home, a monthly podcast where we’ll discuss all things related to Apple and accessibility. This show is hosted by Alena Roberts, John Panarese and Buddy Brannan. Whether you’re looking for information about iDevices from an accessibility perspective, mainstream news about Apple in general, or you’re curious about using the Mac productively, this is the show for you.

Follow the official Triple-Click Home feed on Twitter.

You can also send us your feedback. Email comments to resources@serotalk.com or you can use iBlink Radio to leave us a comment via the iReport feature. Don’t have iBlink Radio? No worries. You can grab it for your Apple iOS device or your Android device.

    Triple-click Home extra! The watch adventure

    Triple-click Home extra! The watch adventure

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    Welcome to this, the first Triple Click Home extra! Join Doug Langley of speed dots, Raquel Gomez, and our own very excited Hope Povenmire as they visit the apple store and check out the apple watch. Although they find that the demo units are not equipped with voiceover, they are able to provide a description of the watch, its "haptic feedback", and the available accessories. You will hear the feedback in the form of little pulsing noises, as it twitches near the microphones used to record this adventure. So put on some headphones and join them!

    but wait, There's More!

    Once you've given this podcast a listen, consider checking out the apple watch accessibility page.
    You can also follow Hope on twitter as well as following triple click home on twitter
    Remember that this podcast is sponsored by audible, and that you can receive a free book for trying audible by visiting audiblepodcast.com/serotalk

    Thanks for listening!

    • 30 min
    Triple-click Home Episode 37: Watch for Aliens

    Triple-click Home Episode 37: Watch for Aliens

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    In this episode of Triple-Click Home, the hosts contemplate aliens landing in time square, "The Force,"among other things, and discuss the recent Apple event.

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

    Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter

    Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.

    Thanks for listening!

    • 42 min
    Triple-click Home Episode 36: Lollipops are über Trivial

    Triple-click Home Episode 36: Lollipops are über Trivial

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    In this episode of Triple-Click Home the hosts discuss the upcoming Apple event, as well as speculate the importance of lollipops. Wait, really?

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    It's amazing that Steve Jobs would have been sixty. Tim Cook comemorates Steve Jobs on a recent trip to Germany

    Is the Apple car just a rumor? Many different theories as all things speculation are. The hosts have their own guesses to add to the pile.

    Team App Picks

    Do you need to get somewhere, but you're not near public transit, or you're in an unknown city and you don't know where the nearest cab might be? Or as Joshua pointed out, you could have a date night with someone special and all this with Uber.
    Is reading a hobby, especially audio books? Audible is great, but what about all that physical media? John has found an answer, and it's right in the Mac app store. It's Audio Book Builder.
    Do you want a distraction? Do you want to exercise your brain and see just how brilliant you are, and show that brilliance to your friends? Hope recommends Trivia Crack.

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

    Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter

    Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.

    Thanks for listening!

    • 47 min
    Triple-click Home Episode 35: mid-life crisis edition

    Triple-click Home Episode 35: mid-life crisis edition

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    In this episode of Triple Click Home, even though it is going through a mid life crisis, get to know our new team and why iCloud is useful for showing that criminals and cows get smarter every day. Or do they?

    stories

    Is Apple really declining in accessibility? In this opinion piece the hosts share their opinions about this very question.

    why is it that iPhones are linked to a higher income but yet the 70% of unemployed blind need them for accessibility? An interesting study shows statistics of iPhone useage, wherein Montana happens to be in the lead.

    How do you think Home Kit will effect your life? The team discusses Home Kit's integration and just a few possibilities in which it could be useful.

    50% of smart phone activations were iPhones, in q4 alone. An article from MacTrast explains this in further detail.

    iPad thieves accidentally send their faces and names to victim's iCloud. And to quote Mr. Harvey 'here's the rest of the story

    Who would have thought, even as little as 5 years ago that one could buy a Coke and a Snickers from a vending machine, with just an iPhone? Looks like science fiction is now becoming fact

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

    Follow Hope Povenmire on Twitter

    Follow Joshua Loya on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks to Audible for generously supporting the SeroTalk Podcast Network. As part of this promotion, you are welcomed to a free audiobook of your choice at AudiblePodcast.com/SeroTalk.
    Thanks for listening!

    • 37 min
    Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon

    Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon

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    The Triple-click Home team is back with another podcast full of talk about iOS, Yosemite and more. Jamie Pauls takes the host's chair this time around, and Lisa Salinger drops by to talk about using Widgets in iOS 8. All that plus your feedback can be heard on Episode 34. Stories covered this month include:

    Top of the News

    Thoughts on Apple's 2014 iPad and Mac event

    Editorial: A friendlier Apple Inc now invites media through its Infinite Loop front door

    OS X Yosemite Review

    Features and Bugs of OS X 10.10 Yosemite

    Apple's iOS 8.1 hits Monday with Apple Pay, iCloud photo library

    Accessibility Fixes And Improvements in iOS 8.1

    A subscription free version of Sendero’s Seeing Eye GPS app for iOS is now available for $299

    The new version of @KNFBReader is out.

    Woz: Hello iPhone 6, goodbye Android

    Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

    Feature Writer Alena Roberts – The Life and Times of Joe Engressia, aka JoyBubbles

    Macs top over one quarter of US back-to-school PC sales

    Apple says only 9 customers have complained about bent iPhones

    This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry

    Team Picks

    Buddy recommends Zinio and The Magazine.

    John has been playing with the KNFB Reader.

    Alena will recommend Fleksy when it gets fixed.

    Jamie recommends the iOS game "Lost Cities".

    How One Boy With Autism Became B.F.F.'s With Apple’s Siri

    If Siri Was a Waitress

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

    Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter

    Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

    Thanks for listening!

    • 1 hr 28 min
    Triple-click Home Episode 33: Where’s the Braille

    Triple-click Home Episode 33: Where’s the Braille

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    The entire Triple-click Home team is back for this month's podcast. Jamie and Derek join the team to discuss the recent Apple event announcing new iPhones plus the unveiling of Apple Watch. Discussion next turns to the good, the bad and the undecided with regard to iOS 8. Also included are some AppleVis links not discussed in the podcast.

    Hands-On First Impressions of the New iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

    iPhones with bigger screens may find eager senior buyers

    Apple Pay Is The Most Important News Out Of Today’s Launch Event

    Why Apple Pay could be the mobile-payment system you'll actually use

    Why Walmart and Best Buy aren’t backing Apple Pay

    Sources Say The Next Version Of The Apple Watch Is Going To Be Much Better

    Exclusive: Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work

    Everything That You Need to Know About iOS 8 Will Be On AppleVis On Release Day

    Acapela Voices Temporarily Not Available in iOS 8

    The Accessibility Bugs in iOS 8: From Serious To Minor

    What’s New in iOS 8 Accessibility for Blind, Low-Vision, and Deaf-Blind Users

    Mailbag

    From Jenine Stanley:

    Oh can I relate to Buddy’s Pro Tip for those of us who find ourselves straddling both worlds.

    My work laptop is a Windows machine and it’s good for what it does, sort of, but I’m really enjoying most of my leisure and home chores on my MacBook Pro.

    Nope, those Mac commands do not work in Windows and sometimes they do very bad things to your work. I recently went all the way to getting a trouble ticket written for a problem I was having. When I talked to the tech at the outside support service, he asked me for exact steps. I told him and he laughed, in that way you know you’re not supposed to do but …

    “Ma’am, that’s a Mac command. Do you use a Mac at home?”

    “Uh, yeah, I do. thanks. I’m going to just dig a big ole hole now.”

    And yes, Alena, I was taught way back when to start with any new program by exploring the menu system. See what it offers and how to do those things. It’s held me in good stead for many years, many more than I care to think about.

    And Buddy, evil as you are, I’m with ya in the playing pranks on the computer teacher. Of course we’d just gotten the IBM Selectric typewriters when I was in high school and the Trash 80 computers didn’t come out until a couple years later. I had my fun at work.

    We set up the old DOS machines we had so that the screen came up with a red background and red letters. Then I did a whole demo on some aspect of accessibility. Then I got called into my boss’s office to hear how that wasn’t funny. Made my point though.

    Oh and you could indeed set up some key commands, like hot keys, outside of the screen reader, for Windows and more for DOS. Could I remember how to do it now? No, but I had a couple cool ones back in the day.

    Blog comment from Jesse

    There seems to be a lot of wining about a larger iPhone screen in recent episodes. True, some people don't want larger screens and that's fine. But there are many blind and low vision users, low vision users especially, who are really looking forward to a larger iPhone, myself included. I have looked at several Android phones with larger screens, and would love to have an iPhone with these types of screens.

    Simply getting an iPad Mini isn't a good solution either, for a couple of reasons. first, as a low vision user, I use the camera in my phone all the time. The camera in all iPad models isn't as good, and for some reason, Apple has yet to add a camera flash, making many camera apps on the iPads rather pointless. I use my phone as a portable CCTV all the time and absolutely love it. A little larger screen would be very helpful, and when combined with a more open camera for developers, will make the iPhone even more comparable to dedicated handheld CCTV's.

    Also, I use data everywhere on my phone, and don't intend to pay for an expanded data p

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Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

cylonstalker ,

Good Show

Quality technology information.

BioInstructor ,

like the older podcasts best

This podcast hasn’t suffered as much as some of the other podcasts that Serotech produces, but to me, the older format is more fluid and fun. Maybe a more frequent podcast would change things.

mrgushi ,

Nice

A nice resource…. I'm an IT Professional who uses iOS for its AT features.

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