In this episode Chris and Kim announce the winner of the Twitter contest announced in the previous episode. Chris touches briefly on the VeraCrypt utility and gives an example of what you may wish to encrypt. Kim takes us on a tour of the three new features of the just released update to the … Read more
In today’s episode, Chris and Kim begin by publicly retracting their contest. We wish to apologize, and are excited to share that we are beginning a new and improved contest whose winner will receive the Sharkk Bluetooth speaker and audio tutorial. This contest is accessible to many people, as we are running it via Twitter. … Read more
In today’s episode (we’re celebrating episode #100.) Chris and Kim begin by sharing about some new devices they’re using to make their lives more comfortable and convenient. First, we talk about our great-sounding Logitech headphones that we’re now using to conduct our podcasts. For their price point, they’re very impressive. Next, Chris talks about his … Read more
In this episode Lynne Tatum from malynworks.com joins Chris and Kim to talk about her new iOS app, MLWordTips. This app is designed to give users simple easy to use keystrokes to get most tasks done in Microsoft Word 2010 and 2013 for Windows. The app encourages users to put the mouse away and navigate … Read more
On November 9, 2015 Mystic Access was invited to Stocking Stuffers. This presentation was in conjunction with Accessible World and Tek Talk. We just wanted to share our portion of the presentation. We even snuck in a coupon along the way. Enjoy.
Chris gave a presentation on the amazon echo. He demonstrates and talks about the features and functionality of the device. Talks about the accessibility of the iPad and android app. Even demonstrates some third party skills. The presentation was given in conjunction with accessibleworld.org
In this episode, Chris and Kim share several noteworthy Mystic Access-related news items, and then have a bit of fun. First up, Chris and Kim share that four new tutorials are currently in pre-production, including one on the Chicken Nugget accessible Twitter client. Kim talks a bit about some of the challenges that go into … Read more
This is the second podcast in our accessible house cleaning gadgets series. Please click here for Part 1. In this episode, Chris describes and demonstrates another accessible vacuum, the iRobot Roomba 630. You will hear the vacuum’s text to speech voice, and experience the sounds of the vacuum performing a quick spot cleaning. After a … Read more
In this episode Chris describes the LG Roboking VR6371LVM. He demonstrates its speech capabilities and also discusses the fact the main unit doesn’t have physical buttons and seems to be a touch screen to start and stop. Chris’ preference is to use the remote to start and stop cleaning.
In this episode Chris talks about the “Provide Feedback With Sound” option in Microsoft Office for Windows. He installs the sound pack in Office 2013, demonstrates how to activate it in the office products as well as shows where to assign different sounds to these events should you wish to do so. You can download … Read more
