March 2019 - Page 2 of 3 - Podfeet Podcasts

Western Digital MyPassport Wireless Pro Portable Hard Drive with WiFi

Western Digital MyPassport Wireless Pro Back in 2006 I purchased a CompactDrive PD70-X — a battery powered portable hard drive (mine was 40GB) that sported a number of memory card slots in one end. While away from home, I could whip a memory card out of my camera (replacing it with another), place the filled […]

CSUN 2019: Sonova/Phonak Roger Assisted Listening Devices

Allison interviews Helene Rydell from Sonova Phonak about their Roger assisted listening devices. Roger is a system of microphones and receivers designed to help people hear better under various conditions. Roger mics include the Table Mic which automatically selects and amplifies the person who is talking and the Select which allows the user to manually […]

NC #723 MarsEdit on SCO, CSUN, SleepPhones, Retissa Retinal Projection, Proloquo2Go, Ampere Unravel, Ocutech

We hope you’ll join us during Apple’s March 25th event in our chat room at podfeet.com/chat. My latest ScreenCastsOnline tutorial is on the awesome blogging tool MarsEdit. We attended CSUN’s Assistive Technology Conference and I’ve got an overview of what we learned along with interviews with Assistivewear about Proloquo2Go, their AAC App, and Ocutech low […]

MarsEdit Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline

I had a total blast creating my latest tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline. It’s on the blogging software called MarsEdit from red-sweater.com/…. This is a fantastic piece of software that I use for creating all of the blog posts you see on podfeet.com. The best part of doing these tutorials is that it forces me to learn […]

CSUN Assistive Tech Conference 2019

CSUN friends Steve, Aleeha, Mike, Al, Jeff, Shelly This week Steve and I attended the CSUN Assistive Tech Conference, and I wanted to tell you a little bit about it. You’ll be hearing the very few interviews we did on the exhibit hall floor but we did more than the exhibit hall this year. I […]

QD Laser’s Retissa Retinal Projection Eyewear

We have three video/audio interviews from CSUN’s Assistive Technology Conference, but there was one product where we didn’t do an interview and yet it was a pretty interesting product. The product is the Retissa Retinal Projection Eyewear from QD Laser. This is a glasses-type piece of eyewear that projects the outside world directly onto your […]

CSUN 2019: Ocutech Low Vision Aids

Allison interviews Sarah Lovejoy from Ocutech about their bioptic telescopes that help visually impaired people see better. Ocutech Bioptics are like miniature binoculars that attach to your regular eyeglasses and make images larger and easier to see. Bioptics are ideal for individuals with reduced visual acuity between 20/60 to 20/300 and they can be prescribed […]

CCATP #586 – Bart Busschots on Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi

This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not Programming By Stealth. This week we’re talking about Bart’s recent post about the different types of free that are available for online services. We talk about his four categories: Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi (rhymes with creepy). It’s a thoughtful discussion about understanding what […]

CSUN 2019: AssistiveWare Proloquo2Go AAC App

March 16, 2019
by Steve Sheridan

Allison interviews Barbara van ’t Westende from AssistiveWare about their Proloquo2Go Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app. This app runs on an iPad and helps people who cannot convey their thoughts using speech to communicate. Proloquo2Go uses symbols and pictures that are displayed on the iPad and selected by the user to communicate. The symbols […]

SleepPhones — Pajamas for Your Ears

Back when I was a teenager, I always used to leave my homework until last thing before bed. I was pretty sure it was just because I was lazy, but the excuse I used to give to my parents was “I do my best thinking late at night.” Oddly enough, there was more to my […]

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