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Coming This Thursday: SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for November, 2013

What’s bigger than Thanksgiving leftovers and much more fun than Aunt Myrtle’s fruitcake? Come find out on SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech! Join the event live this Thursday, December 5, beginning at 9 PM EST.

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SeroTalk Podcast 179: Don’t Auto-Tune Birds

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 179: Don’t Auto-Tune Birds! Welcome to this week’s edition of the SeroTalk Podcast. After Jamie, Ricky and Joe discuss the top news stories of the week, Joe interviews Justin of Solo-DX about their new MovieReading app … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 178: The Longest Minute in History

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 178: The Longest Minute in History Join Jamie, Ricky and Joe as they discuss the top stories of the week. Topics included in this episode include: News in A T National Federation of the Blind Applauds … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 177: WiFi On the Water

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 177: WiFi On the Water Join Jamie Pauls, Ricky Enger and Lisa Salinger as they discuss the top news stories of the week. Topics covered in this episode include: News in A T TapTapSee Goes Subscription-based … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for October, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for October, 2013 Replay the Accessible Event archive of the show About Our Presenters Luis Arellano is an instructional assistant for California School Districts and a regular, helpful participant in the SAMNet Community. … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 16: The Click of Death

Listen to High Contrast Episode 16: The Click Of Death Will these crazy Operating System updates ever end? It seems like that is the talk of all the Community these days. So the team gave their impressions on two Apple … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 176: A Format and a Good Cry

Listen to Serotalk Podcast 176: A Format and a Good Cry Welcome to this froggy edition of the podcast where show host Jamie Pauls fights with a scratchy throat but prevails nonetheless. Ricky and Joe lend their support as the … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 175: Blame Thy Marketing Company

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 175: Blame Thy Marketing Company Welcome to this very spooky edition of the SeroTalk Podcast. Will Jamie, Ricky and Joe be able to pick their way through this week’s maze of stories? Is the mailbag finally … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 174: There’s Gold in Them Thar App Stores

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 174: There’s Gold in Them Thar App Stores Jamie, Ricky and Joe have a lot to discuss in this week’s SeroTalk podcast. Topics covered include: Blind Bargains: President Obama Declares October 15 Blind Americans Equality Day … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 173: Voice Assistant Uprising

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 173: Voice Assistant Uprising Welcome to SeroTalk Podcast 173, where Jamie, Ricky and Joe discuss the top news stories of the week. Topics covered in this episode include: Shutdown Slams Blind Merchants 2013 Employment Resources for … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 172: The Sarah Tech

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 172: The Sarah Tech In this podcast, Serotek’s own Matt Campbell drops by for his regular visit to the show. Did you know there was a pattern to his appearances? You’ll have to listen to the … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for September, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for September Replay the Accessible Event archive of This Month in Tech for September About Our Presenters For the past seven years, Tim Emmons has served as a Readers’ Adviser and BARD Technical … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 171: Ricky Gets Her Wish

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 171: Ricky Gets Her Wish Welcome to what turned out to be one of the longest SeroTalk podcasts ever. Jamie, Ricky and Joe had a lot to say about this week’s news. Also, Alena Roberts brings … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 15: It’s All About the Photons!

Listen to High Contrast Episode 15: Its All About The Photons! Did you know that this little company in Cupertino made this little device and operating system that people like to talk about? Okay, yeah, talk they do and this … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 170: Dial-Up or Bust

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 170: Dial-Up or Bust In this week’s episode, Joe tries to run and hide from all the Apple frenzy, but Jamie and Ricky talk him into sharing his thoughts. Believe it or not, Apple news isn’t … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 169: Space Gray Is the New Black

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 169: Space Gray Is the New Black This week, Jamie, Ricky and Joe return to their familiar places on the podcast. Topics discussed in this week’s episode include: Extra Extra, Read all About it: the NLS … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for August

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for August Replay the Accessible Event archive of SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for August ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS Byron Lee is a Ham Radio Operator (KC9EEK), Broadcast Personality, Audio Engineer, Voice Over Artist, … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 168: Hush Your Mouth

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 168: Hush Your Mouth Since Ricky steadfastly refused to rejoin the podcast until we could demonstrate to her that the mailbag had returned, Jamie, Buddy and Joe were forced to forge ahead like the good soldiers … Continue reading

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Coming this Thursday: SeroSpectives–This Month in Tech for August

Join SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech airing September 5 beginning at 9 PM Eastern As the weather is beginning to cool, the tech stories are heating up. Join us for a lively discussion of the newsworthy tech for the month … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 167: Super Plastics Master

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 167: Super Plastics Master Join Jamie Pauls, Ricky enger and Lisa Salinger as they discuss the top news stories of the week. topics covered include: NVDA 2013.2 now Available NVDA Podcast 6 what’s in the upcoming … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 14: The B Is for Bargain

Listen to High Contrast Episode 14: The B Is For Bargain Maurie and Jeremy are still enjoying the summer vacation season. But Rodney, Byron and joe pick up where they left off a few episodes ago with some new hardware … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 166: Safari Plus Windows Equals Bad

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 166: Safari Plus Windows Equals Bad Who uses technology and who doesn’t? How many song lyrics can we quote in one podcast? SeroTalk Podcast 166 is once again jam packed with lots of good information with … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 165: It’s Going to Sound Good in Your Mouth

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 165: It’s Going to Sound Good In Your Mouth Join Jamie, Ricky and Joe as they discuss the news of the week. Stories covered in this podcast include: Blind Bargains: Survey on the Accessibility of Exercise … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 164: Let Me Feel Your Phone Face

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 164: Let Me Feel Your Phone Face If there is one thing that can be said about a SeroTalk Podcast, it is that you never know what you’re going to get. Petting cheetah cubs, riding in … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for July, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for July Replay the Accessible Event archive of This Month in Tech for July About Our Presenters Mike Arrigo works in the computer field, and provides technical support for church management database software. … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 163: Soft Tiger, Warm Tiger

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 163: Soft Tiger, Warm Tiger The team of Jamie, Ricky and Joe are back to discuss the top news stories for this week’s SeroTalk Podcast. Lisa Salinger joins us after the news to demonstrate using the … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 13: Too Cool for School

Listen to High Contrast Episode 13: Too Cool For School Summer is still upon us and so we again turn to flights of fancy and log flooms of fun at America’s amusement parks. This time around, Byron lee talks about … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 162: Citation Needed

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 162: Citation Needed While Jamie is enjoying a bit of R and R after all of our convention coverage, Joe, Ricky and Lisa hold down the fort and produce yet another stellar episode of the SeroTalk … Continue reading

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SPN Special: 2013 Summer Convention Number 5

Listen to SPN Special: 2013 Summer Convention Number 5 They say “all good things must come to an end” and that is true, as this is our fith of five HIMS-sponsored SPN Specials featuring interviews from the National Federation of … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Technology for June, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for June, 2013 Replay the Accessible Event archive of This Month in Tech for June Join Lisa Salinger, Steve Sawczyn, and Jamie Pauls as they discuss the top news stories for the month … Continue reading

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SPN Special: A T Trainers

Listen to our SPN Special: AT Trainers SPN is pleased again to bring you audio from the National Federation of the blind Assistive Technology Trainers Division Meeting. This year’s guests pack a 1-2 punch. From Windows 8 to the mac, … Continue reading

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SPN Special: Using the SAMNet Socializer

Listen to our SPN Special: Using the SAMNet Socializer Each month, members of Serotek’s System Access Mobile Network are able to participate in live training sessions on how to use various aspects of SAMNet. These training sessions are conducted by … Continue reading

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SPN Special: HIMS NFB Workshop Part 2

Listen to our SPN special: HIMS NFB Workshop Part 2 In part 2 of the HIMS NFB workshop, Scott Hegle and Dave Wilkinson demonstrate [HIMS Braille products with iOS devices and programs, our Deaf-Blind communication solutions, and a preview of … Continue reading

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SPN Special: HIMS NFB Workshop Part 1

Listen to our SPN special: HIMS NFB Workshop Part 1 In part 1 of the HIMS NFB workshop, Jenny Axler and Scott Hegle demonstrate the new features of Braille Sense and Voice Sense notetaker version 8.0 including Dropbox, YouTube, RSS, … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 161: Screen Shotted

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 161: Screen Shotted Join Jamie Pauls, ricky Enger and Buddy Brannan as they discuss the top news stories of the week. Next, Jamie Pauls talks with Kwasi Mensa of Ananse Productions about their current game, Stem … Continue reading

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Coming Wednesday, July 3: SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for June

We are joined this month by two guests from Ireland and one from the UK who will discuss the wide variety of tech that made news during June, 2013. SeroSpectives airs at a special day and time this month. It … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 12: The Purple Screen Of Death

Listen to High Contrast Episode 12: The Purple Screen Of Death Maurie is out on summer vacation. So what happens when it’s just the men on the show left to their own devices? Well they talk tech, TVs, media and … Continue reading

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SeroTalk at the NFB and ACB National Conventions

SeroTalk at the NFB and ACB National Conventions The SeroTalk Podcast Network team will be bringing you live coverage from the NFB and ACB conventions, and if you’ve got a particular vendor you’d like us to interview, we want to … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 160: MMM Braille

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 160: MMM Braille This week’s podcast is packed with a lot of great content. After Jamie, Ricky and Joe discuss the top news stories of the week, Jamie visits with Duyahn Walker about a recent television … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 159: There Is a Hole in Your Roof

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 159: There Is a Hole in Your Roof In this podcast, Jamie pauls, Ricky Enger and Joe Steinkamp discuss the top news stories of the week including Apple’s WWDC keynote. Reddit, Mozilla Join Coalition Demanding End … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 158: It Just Ate My Like

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 158: It Just Ate My Like Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast where Lisa Salinger joins Jamie Pauls and Ricky Enger to discuss the top news stories of the week. The NFB13 agenda is … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for June, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for June, 2013 Replay the Accessible Event archive of This Month in Tech for June Liam Erven is best known for the computer games he produces for blind users. Games are released via … Continue reading

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Airing this evening at 9 PM Eastern, This Month in Tech for June

Kick back and enjoy those lazy days of summer by joining the SeroSpectives Team to discuss the exciting technologies that caught our interest during the month of May. The event airs live at 9:00 Eastern on Thursday, June 6.

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SeroTalk Podcast 157: She Got Verified On Friday

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 157: She Got Verified On Friday Join Jamie Pauls, Ricky Enger and Joe Steinkamp as they discuss the top news stories of the week which include: What Tim Cook’s cryptic comments at D11 can tell us … Continue reading

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High Contrast Episode 11: It’s a World of Dreams

Listen to High Contrast Episode 11: It’s a World Of Dreams Summer is right around the corner and that means going outside, having fun and visiting new places. Maurie got a jump start on the season and she is here … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 156: Robot Eats Your Lunch

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 156: Robot Eats Your Lunch Welcome to this week’s podcast. Follow along in the show notes as Jamie, Ricky and Joe discuss the top news stories of the week. Samsung Galaxy S4 named top smartphone by … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 155: The Country of Google

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 155: The Country of Google Welcome to another edition of the SeroTalk Podcast where Jamie Pauls, Ricky Enger and Joe Steinkamp discuss the top news stories of the week. Topics covered include: NVDA has a new … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 154: Webmind Is Coming

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 154: Webmind Is Coming This week, Joe Steinkamp is joined by Ricky Enger and Buddy Brannan in a discussion of the top news stories of the week. Then, Jamie Pauls visits with Boaz Zilberman about RAY, … Continue reading

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SeroTalk Podcast 153: Scan My Brain

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 153: Scan My Brain There was just a bit of excitement in the air as Jamie, Ricky and Joe recorded this week’s podcast. What sparked all the enthusiasm? If you don’t already know, stick around and … Continue reading

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SeroSpectives: This Month in Technology for April, 2013

Listen to SeroSpectives: This Month in Technology for April, 2013 About Our Presenters Amy Billman is an east to west coast transplant, happily calling California her home for the past four years. She has a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance, … Continue reading

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