The Screenless Switchers Podcast

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 30

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:56:53 +0000

On this episode, we discuss and disect the article on voice over found in the NFB June 2009 Braille Monitor. We are joined by Josh De Lioncourt, Steve Sawczen, and Cara Quinn.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 29

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:07:01 +0000

On this episode, we discuss all the new info we got at the wwdc keynote. We are joined by Josh De Lioncourt, Cara Quinn, and Steve Sawczen

The Screenless Switchers podcast episode 28

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:33:26 +0000

On this episode, we are joined by Josh De Lioncourt, Steve Sawczyn, and Cara Quinn to discuss the accessibility of apple's iwork 9.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 27

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:07:49 +0000

in this Episode, we discuss today's Mac World keynote. We then have our software picks. Holly Picked Checkbook from Splasm Software, and Darcy picked Pulsar from Rogue Amoeba. If you've purchased software from Rogue Amoeba before, you can get a complimentary licence for Pulsar here.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 26

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:41:04 +0000

In this episode, we are joined by Josh de Lioncourt of the Mac-cessibility site, Steve Sawczyn of the Assistive Technology Show, and Shane Jackson of the BlindWorld Blog and Podcast. Topics discussed include

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Special Edition 2

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:22:15 +0000

In this brief episode, we discuss the accessibility improvements that took place today with both Itunes and the Ipod Nano. You can read more at lioncourt.com, and Apples own Accessibility page.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 25

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:07:56 +0000

In this episode, we discuss the recent WWDC keynote. Of note is preliminary information on the next version of OS10 Snow Leopard. We then respond to listener mail. Finally, we have our software picks. Holly recommended Put Item On Dock, an automator workflow from Tim Kilburn that allows you to place files or folders on the dock.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 24

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:56:18 +0000

In this episode, we first discuss the fact that the multi-select list box bug is fixed in the latest build of Web Kit. After that, Darcy gives a demo of Automator. Next we respond to listener mail. Finally we do software picks. Darcy recommends the ftp client Transmit, while Holly recommends Tivo Decode Manager.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 23

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:53:07 +0000

In this episode we are joined by Shane Jackson of the Blind World podcast. We discuss the accessibility of the new beta of Open Office. We also discuss some other pieces of accessible software, including: Switch, a program for converting audio to different formats, and MarsEdit, a blog editing application.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 22

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:17:25 +0000

On this episode, we answer listener mail.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 21

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:31:07 +0000

In this episode, we are joined by Josh De Lioncourt of the Maccessibility site. We discuss today's Mac World keynote. We also touch on accessibility improvements in Adium

The Screenless Switchers podcast episode 20

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:47:21 +0000

On this episode of the screenless Switchers, we talk about our most recent appearance on acb radio's main menu and we give our predictions for mac world 2008.

The Screenless Switchers podcast episode 19

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:51:02 +0000

On this episode we demo audio hijack pro from Rogue Amoeba and sound studio from freeverse.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 18

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:35:24 +0000

On this episode, we play a round table discussion we were involved in that originally aired on ACB radio's main menu on tuesday november 6, 2007.

The Screenless Switchers podcast number 17

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:32:34 +0000

On this episode, we have a round table discussion of leopard the new operating system for the mac. For this discussion: Darcy and Holly were joined by Josh De Lioncourt, and Anne robertson.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 16

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:51:48 +0000

In this episode, we follow up on some of the news stories we discussed last week. We then answer several questions sent in by a listener who has just purchased a Mac.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 15

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:38:26 +0000

In This episode, we discuss the new products released by Apple in the "Beat Goes On" event. We also answer some questions sent in by a listener who has just recently switched over to the Mac.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 14

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:26:56 +0000

In this episode, we focus primarily with the Ipod. We also discuss a survey from "Take Control Books" about interest in a possible book on VoiceOver. We encourage everyone to vote for this if you would be interested in buying such a book.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 13

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:19:23 +0000

In this episode, we Interview Josh De Lioncourt of the Mac-Cessibility web site at http://www.lioncourt.com. This is a new web site for blind Mac users, and those considering the switch.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 12

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:16:45 +0000

On this episode of the screenless switchers podcast, We interview Greg Kerney. He's done several applications for the mac that work with voice over, and he also has a database of accessible voice over applications. He's also written software for making daisy books. Click on the link above for more information.

The Screenless switchers podcast episode 11

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:45:20 +0000

On this episode of the screenless switchers podcast:

news
- leopard release delayed until october
- Itunes to offer undrmed music from EMI and possibly other sources
topics
- Podcasting support in itunes
- airport express with airtunes
- review of the cross platform game, and the first accessible game for the mac terrestrial invaders

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 10

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:32:48 +0000

On this episode, we do a review of Itunes. We also talk about our trip to the Apple store, Holly's MacBook repairs, and the Airtunes.

The Screenless switchers podcast special edition 1

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:59:09 +0000

On this special edition of the screenless switchers podcast, we have some exciting news to report about itunes.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 9

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:11:54 +0000

In this episode, we start off by talking about Mac World and our thoughts on the IPhone. Darcy then shares a tip he found on osxhints.com which causes mail to display messages in plain text. Next, Holly explains how to copy and paste a portion of a web page in safari. We then discuss Sogudi, an add-on to safari which allows you to search many web sites from the location bar.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Number 8

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:22:26 +0000

On this episode we continue the interview with slau. Among other things we talk to him about protools accessibility and the protools petition.

darcy and holly update

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:46:09 +0000

Here is an update from us. We've had a bit of a power outage.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 7

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:51:24 +0000

On this episode,> we play part one of a two part interview with Slau.

Screenless Switchers Podcast Episode 6

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:50:51 +0000

On this episode, we talk about:

The new update and problems we are having with it,
the Canoscan lide 60,
Holly asks about submitting bug reports,
Darcy asks about repairing permissions,
Holly asks about reding pdfs with columns,
Darcy asks if anyone else is interested in a mailing list,
Travis sens us a Link to the apple script to the apple script manual,
Kevin Reves asks us how we record the podcasts.

The Screenless Switchers Podcast episode 5

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:42:07 +0000

On this episode, we discuss;

Our recording the podcast strictly on the mac,
Using Audio Hijack pro to record skype,
Using skype with voice Over
Ripping cds with Itunes,

We ask questions about:

Extra files when copying to windows,
Setting city in time and date prefernces

The Screenless Switchers Podcast number 004

Darcy Burnard and Holly anderson — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:19:32 +0000

On this episode, we discuss, our long absence, the WWDC, The Apple Store, and our new promo.