The true story on how to pronounce the name Charon, Pluto’s moon Wired article entitled “Really, Here’s How You Pronounce “Charon” — Probably”. Review of the Logitech k480 Bluetooth keyboard designed to let you flip between three devices. Type2Phone from houdah.com for $10 in the Mac App Store will do the same thing as long as you live in the Mac/iOS ecosystem. In an attempt to open a hole in the space-time continuum, I ran Ubuntu Linux inside a virtual machine I created for Windows 10 inside Mac OS X Yosemite. I give my views on the 12″ MacBook now that the honeymoon is over, and then in Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk with Dr. Robert Carter of The Tech Doctor Podcast at dr-carter.com to discuss how a blind podcaster can be seen as just another tech podcaster.
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Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday August 16, 2015 and this is show number 536. I’ve got a ton of great geeky stuff to talk about today but before we get started I wanted to give you a critical update about our discussion on Pluto with Steve and Bart a couple of weeks ago. Don Squires wrote in explaining that the three of us had chosen the wrong pronunciation of the moon Charon.: Download gta san andreas for pc using utorrent.
Sorry to be a pedant, but the name of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is pronounced as if it started with the letter “k.” Charon is the name of a mythological character who ferried souls across the river Styx to Hades, the realm of Pluto. The “ch” of Charon is the English transliteration of the Greek letter chi (X). English words from Greek words containing chi are almost always pronounced with a “k” sound, e.g., Christ, chaos, chasm, etc.
We’re going to start out with a Dumb Question that results in a review of the Goal Zero Guide 10 Plus Small Adventure Kit solar charger and battery pack.Then we’ll have a quick shout out about the app Type2Phone, and a car tech review requested by Honda Bob.On Chit Chat Across the Pond we’re going to have a new guest, photographer and Mac geek Chris Marquardt from the Tips from the Top. Mayan pregnancy calendar 2019.
Steve came back back with a really interesting article on Wired explaining the pronunciation. I put a link in the shownotes to the article entitled “Really, Here’s How You Pronounce “Charon” — Probably”. I want you to read the whole thing because it’s pretty hilarious, but the reason we’ve chosen to go with the “sh” version of Charon is because Jim Christy, who discovered the moon in 1978, had promised his wife Charlene he would name the object after her.
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Last week I told you during the Clarify ad segment that it hadn’t worked quite properly for me and that I had sent a note off to support to figure out the problem. I’m glad to report back that both problems I encountered were my own fault. When you use Clarify to post to your blog, one of the great advantages is that you can edit the tutorial later and just repost to the same page without doing any fiddling. Unfortunately when I edited a tutorial right before last week’s show, the tutorial seemed to have lost the connection to the blog post. I learned via a back and forth discussion with support that I had made an illogical step. I created the original tutorial, saved it to Evernote, and then uploaded it to my WordPress site, and then quit Clarify. Think about the order of those steps – I never saved the information about the WordPress site back into Evernote, so when I opened it a few months later from Evernote, how could it possibly have known about the WordPress upload? My bad.
The other problem I had was with my tutorial on TripMode, Evernote kept telling that the note content was malformed and couldn’t save it. Well in this case I think Evernote is just dumb, but luckily support for Clarify still helped me out and pointed out that Evernote doesn’t like links that don’t start with http://. I often just write podfeet.com instead of https://podfeet.com and that works EVERYWHERE but in Evernote. Again, not a problem with Clarify but still support bailed me out and solved all of my problems.
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Chit Chat Across the Pond
This week we’re joined by Dr. Robert Carter, of The Tech Doctor Podcast at http://dr-carter.com to talk about how a blind podcaster can be seen as just another tech podcaster and break out of the type casting as only a blind podcaster. You can follow him on twitter at @robert_carter
How do we decrease the divide between disability and mainstream?
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- How does a blind Apple Accessibility podcaster gain credibility with sighted mainstream Apple podcasters?
- This requires lots of work on both sides.
- What most sighted people know about blind people is wrong.
- The knowledge is based on misconceptions and stereotypes. Use how blindness is portrayed in the bible as an example.
- Sighted people have their own conscious and unconscious fears about themselves becoming blind and how helpless they would become.
- For sighted people to see a blind podcaster as a general Apple expert who would be capable of participating in and contributing to mainstream Apple discussions, the sighted podcaster would have to remove misconceptions and stereotypes, conquer own fears and awkwardness and begin seeing blindness as a characteristic or attribute of the person rather than the primary thing of importance.
- Sighted podcasters would have to learn that blind people have to know just as much about the general operation of OS X and iOS as any other expert.
- The blind person has to know some specialized VoiceOver commands but can talk knowledgeably about non-accessibility aspects of the workings of Apple devices.
- Blind podcasters should be considered as a viable guest discuss all current aspects of Apple.
- This can only happen when barriers that are created by the misunderstanding of blindness have been removed.
That’s going to wind this up for this week, many thanks to our sponsor for helping to pay the bills, the makers of Clarify over at clarify-it.com. Don’t forget to send in your Dumb Questions, comments and suggestions by emailing me at allison@podfeet.com, follow me on twitter @podfeet. Check out the NosillaCast Google Plus Community too – lots of fun over there! If you want to join in the fun of the live show, head on over to podfeet.com/live on Sunday nights at 5pm Pacific Time and join the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastaways. Thanks for listening, and stay subscribed.
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I’d seen mentions of Type2Phone by Clark Goble and Stephen Hackett, but I didn’t get around to looking at it until Justin Blanton linked to it earlier this week. Well, now I have it installed on both of my computers, and even though it was hard to get working and has a weird display, it seems like a useful tool to have.
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The purpose of Type2Phone is to allow you to use your Mac as a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone or iPad. This is functionality that Apple should have built-in (we stay within the Apple ecosystem because of its excellent product integration—this is an area where the integration fails), but until it does Type2Phone will fill the gap.
If you don’t see the value of having a full-sized keyboard for your iPhone, you must not get texts while you’re at your computer. I do, and I’ve always felt ridiculous typing away on the phone’s small keyboard when real one is right in front of me.
Before you can use Type2Phone, you have to pair your Mac with your iPhone, which I found difficult at best. With both my iMac and my MacBook Air, I had to resort to Houdah’s “Troubleshooting” tips to even get the phone to see that the Mac was available:
- If the Mac is listed with a blue arrow, tap that arrow and select “Forget this device”.
- Disable Bluetooth on the Mac
- Reenable Bluetooth on the Mac
- Set Bluetooth on the Mac to be discoverable
- Launch Type2Phone
- Now restart your iPhone / iPad
- On your iPhone / iPad, go to Settings > General > Bluetooth
- Enable Bluetooth on your iPhone
- Tap the name of the Mac to start the pairing procedure
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On the iMac, I had to do this at least five times before it worked. The first few times, I just got an error message on the phone saying a connection was impossible. Eventually, I found this message on Houdah’s support forum, which suggested turning off WiFi on the devices before trying to pair them via Bluetooth. Since my iPhone uses my iMac’s WiFi sharing at work, that seemed like reasonable advice. It still didn’t work the next couple of times I tried it, but then it did. I have no idea why it didn’t work at first or why it finally did.
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The phone didn’t see the MB Air immediately either, but it did on the first try with the “Troubleshooting” technique.
The actual pairing procedure—which only starts after you go through all those steps to get the phone to see the Mac—was different on the two machines. With the iMac, I had to type in a set of numbers on both devices; with the MB Air, I just had to tap an onscreen button. I’m sorry I can’t give you screenshots or a better description of the process, but I felt the need to work quickly so I wouldn’t lose the connection. I didn’t have time to take notes.
Luckily, this awful pairing experience seems to be required only once per computer. After the phone and computer know each other, they reconnect immediately.1 That, at least, has been my experience so far, and because that’s how pairing works with Bluetooth mice, keyboards, and earpieces, I expect it to work that way with the computer, too.
Using Type2Phone is blessedly simple:
- Launch Type2Phone, which brings up a long, horizontal window.
- Choose your phone from the popup menu of paired devices.
- Tap in a text field on you phone to get the cursor blinking.
- Type.
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What you type on your Mac magically appears in the iPhone’s text field. Cursor control keys work, as do the Shift, Option, and Command modifier keys. ⌘A selects all the text in the field, ⌘X cuts, ⌘C copies, and ⌘V pastes. It’s wonderful.
What isn’t wonderful, at least not initially, is what goes on in the Type2Phone window as you type. Every keystroke shows up in a little white chiclet which scrolls from right to left as you type. It’s really distracting.
As you can see from the photograph, each editing command appears in its own chiclet. So what you see on your Mac is not what appears on your iPhone; it’s more like the output of a keylogger program. Weird.
But if you ignore the Mac’s screen and set your attention to the iPhone’s screen while you type, you can move along very quickly with Type2Phone.
It’s possible that when iMessage2 comes to the Mac, this sort of workaround will become moot. Until then, if you do a lot of texting near your computer, Type2Phone will make it faster and easier.
Also, turning the WiFi back on after pairing didn’t break the connection between the phone and the iMac. ↩
By the way, in the comments to my iMessage post from a couple of months ago, I was roundly ridiculed for saying that a 14-year-old girl could rack up 10,000 texts per month. Have you seen this report from Nielsen? Teen girls average about 4,000 messages per month. Average. I expect apologies to come pouring in forthwith. ↩