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Billie Lourd Marks 'Star Wars' Day by Dressing Baby Boy in Princess Leia Onesie

Joining the May the 4th celebration, the daughter of late Carrie Fisher puts out two photos of son Kingston rocking the onesie and a brown knitted hat featuring Leia's signature double bun hairdo.




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Perrie Edwards Unhappy to Dress Up as Guy for Little Mix's New Music Video

Edwards recalls crying because she thought she looked stupid wearing a man's clothes for her girl group's music video which came out recently to support new single 'Confetti'.




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Josh Duggar to Be Released From Prison Despite Allegations of Him Possessing 65 Child Porn Pics

While he is not allowed to return to his family home, the former '19 Kids and Counting' star is reportedly granted unlimited contact with his six children as long as his wife Anna Duggar is present.




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Blueface's Artist Chrisean Rock Not Taking Slick Woods' Illness as Excuse for Starting Altercation

The 'Blue Girls Club' star cites her Christian faith as the reason why she didn't fight back when the model slapped Chrisean's phone out of her hand at a party.




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Patrick Schwarzenegger Debuts 'Best Shape' Transformation After Going Through 50-Day Fitness Regime

The 'Midnight Sun' actor admits that he finds 'a sense of purpose, increased energy, and better sleeping habits' after completing his 50-day 5 A.M. workout challenge.




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Danny Huston Recalls Desperation to Impress Director Father With Own Skills

Serving behind the lens for the first time in 20 years, 'The Last Photograph' helmer looks back at time time his legendary father John Huston gave one of his first lessons in directing.




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Hugh Jackman Enlists NY Cop to Pressure Ryan Reynolds Into Getting Him in 'Deadpool 3'

In a video posted on his social media accounts, an officer named John Dobkowski tells the 'Deadpool' star to get the 'Logan' actor in the upcoming movie, or else he will be ticketing Reynolds.




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Billie Lourd Marks 'Star Wars' Day by Dressing Baby Boy in Princess Leia Onesie

Joining the May the 4th celebration, the daughter of late Carrie Fisher puts out two photos of son Kingston rocking the onesie and a brown knitted hat featuring Leia's signature double bun hairdo.




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How to Turn Off Repeated Text Message Alerts on iOS and iPadOS

In this episode, Thomas Domville discusses how to turn off repeated text message alerts on iOS and iPadOS. By default, your device will send a second notification alert two minutes after you receive a text message if you don't check it right away. This feature is designed to help ensure that you don't miss any important messages, but some users find it to be more annoying than helpful.

If you're one of those users, don't worry, it's easy to turn off repeated alerts. Here's how:

  1. Open the Settings app and double-tap Notifications.
  2. Double-tap Messages, and then double-tap "Customize notifications" at the bottom of the page; note that you can quickly jump to this button by performing a four-finger single-tap near the bottom of the screen.
  3. Double-tap "Repeat Alerts," and select "Never" to only be notified of an incoming text message once.




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A Quick Tour of Some Notable New and Enhanced Accessibility Features in iOS 17

In this episode, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable with Accessibility features in iOS 17.

Topics include:

  • New Haptic sensation
  • Open Per Voice Settings
  • Text Detection
  • Point and Speak
  • Sound Curtain
  • Fast long-press speed option
  • Siri (Voices sound natural and expressive)
  • Listen to Page
  • React with your Hands in FaceTime
  • Level Tool for Camera
  • Audio Transcription in Messages




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How to Modify the iOS ‘Fast’ Long-Press Speed Option to Open Context Menus More Quickly

In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to enable the Fast long-press speed option on iOS 17. This new feature allows for quicker access to context menus and other Haptic Touch actions, enhancing your workflow and making your iPhone feel more responsive.

Here’s how you can activate the Fast Long-Press Speed Option:

  1. Launch the Settings app.
  2. Navigate to Accessibility.
  3. Select Touch.
  4. Choose Haptic Touch.
  5. Under Touch Duration, opt for Fast.

    You can gauge the new response time by long-pressing on the flower image displayed on the same screen. This simple adjustment can significantly boost your iPhone’s responsiveness.




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Exploring Siri’s Health Data Access on iOS

In this episode, Thomas Domville introduces a new feature that enables Siri to interact with and record data from the Health app for health and fitness inquiries.

Users can query Siri about their sleep duration, Activity ring progress, or blood glucose levels if they have a linked monitor. Supported queries include checking steps, heart rate, blood oxygen level, Exercise ring, Move ring, average walking heart rate, and calories burned. Furthermore, Siri can record data in the Health app, such as weight, spotting, medications taken, body temperature, period start, blood sugar, and blood pressure.

To activate this feature, users must enable “Access Health Data” in their iPhone’s Health settings or “Allow Siri Access to Health Data” on their Apple Watch.




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From Onesies to Runway: Inside Baby Adopter Dress Up for iOS

In this delightful episode, Ida Grace revisits Baby Adopter Dress Up for iOS. This charming game combines babysitting, fashion costume dress-up, and nursery care for those who adore looking after little ones.

As a player, you have the opportunity to adopt and nurture a cute son or daughter. You can dress up, feed, care for, and acquire various costumes, shoes, and hats for your baby. Keep in mind that certain costumes become available as your baby grows. Some game features include:

  • Game Locations: Venture into different interior rooms and external settings, including the Summer Beach and Winter House.
  • Growth: Your baby will mature after 20 days, unlocking additional costume options. Dress your little one in playful outfits and share their adorable looks on social media.
  • Karma: Reflects your overall gameplay progress and experience.

Embrace the joy of tending to your virtual baby and creating charming outfits! ????????

Baby Adopter Dress Up on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-adopter-dress-up/id875064928

transcription:

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello AppleViz.

This is Ida Grace and I am here today with a podcast on the baby adopter dress up app.

I want to go through a couple of quick disclaimers before I start.

First of all, I want to say that I did a podcast for this app years ago.

However, it was called Milky Baby at the time and now it is baby adopter dress up and my podcast for that is no longer available on AppleViz at least as far as I've been able to tell.

417 PM.

Ah, I wanted to tell you a disclaimer about the voice I'm using too, but the app has gone through a couple of changes anyway, so I was given the green light to go ahead and make a new podcast.

And the second disclaimer is involving the voice I am using.

I am using American Siri voice 5 because it is pride season and if you all were able to read the article that Apple put out, this voice was recorded by somebody in the LGBT community.

So I thought with pride month approaching fast, I would keep this voice on through pride season.

However, as you'll notice as I demonstrate this app, it does have some delays.

There is a little bit of delay between voiceover speech and voiceover sound.

So you will notice that comma 418 PM and it is 418 PM.

I am on the clock widget right now.

So the first thing I want to let you know is when you first open the baby adopter dress up app, it's going to ask you if you want the app to send you notifications.

I always turn that on, but all they do is notify you every 24 hours if you forget to feed the baby.

So if you don't want the notifications turned on, you don't have to do it.

Just know that if you're using this on an iPad like I am, the baby will cry and you won't get a vibration.

You'll just get because iPads don't have haptics.

So you're just going to get the baby crying if you forget to feed the baby in 24 hours.

I'm also using iPadOS 16 because the Siri voices do not auto delete for voiceover as they do in iOS 17.

They seem to be…




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What's New in iOS 18 for Accessibility

In this episode, Thomas Domville gives us an overview of new accessibility features for blind, DeafBlind, and visually impaired users in iOS 18. Topics covered include:

  • Live Recognition Comes to the Rotor
  • Voices Rotor
  • Improvements to Audio Ducking
  • VoiceOver Tutorial
  • VoiceOver Startup Haptic Feedback
  • Delay Before Selection
  • New languages for Lithuanian and Kazak
  • Using Personal Voice with VoiceOver
  • Equalizer and Other New Customization Options for VoiceOver Voices
  • Voice Presets for Siri Voices
  • A New VoiceOver Gesture for Accessing Siri Text Input
  • Braille Screen Input Improvements
  • Motion Queues
  • New Sound Actions
  • Assistive Touch Improvements
  • Eye Tracking
  • New Background Sounds and Controls
  • Music Haptics
  • Live Speech Improvements
  • Voice Control Improvements
  • Vocal Shortcuts
  • Hover Typing
  • Car Play Improvements: Voice Control, Color Filters, and Sound Recognition
  • Magnifier Improvements: Assign Action Button to Magnifier Mode and New Reader Mode
  • Improvements to Accessing Reader Mode in Safari

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

An Apple Vis Original What's new in iOS 18 for accessibility?

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Donville, also known as Anonymous, as like every year, a new iOS comes in play and Apple brings out new features for us to enjoy.

So with no exception, this year we got a slew of new features for voiceover users, braille users, and other accessibility features that you might find of interest.

There's a lot in here to pack, so let's go ahead and jump right into it and you can hear for yourself what is new in iOS 18 for accessibility.

Live recognition is now an option within your rotor if you include it.

To include it, you just go to your accessibility and head over to rotors and include the live recognition.

This allows you to access live recognition quickly and easily by simply going to your rotor.

Once enabled, we'll just head over to live recognition within our rotor, where you are able to select one or more of the various detections you would like to be enabled.

As you swipe down or up within the rotor, you get the various detection.

To enable a particular detection, just simply do one finger double tap, double tap again and that'll disable it.

If you dismiss the rotor and keep the detection on, it will now live in with your dynamic island towards the top of your device or you can dismiss it from there as well.

Apple has now enhanced the voice over voice option within rotors, which used to be called language.

This rotor allows you to access the various voices that you have defined within speech under accessibility, but that itself has completely been revamped, which you can find within the voice over in the accessibility.

Double tap on this now.

You now have two section in here, first is your primary voice, which can be in any language, doesn't have to be necessarily English and they can…




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Enhance Accessibility: Adding Voices to VoiceOver Rotor Voices on iOS

In this podcast, Thomas Domville reviews and demonstrates the Voices feature, which allows you to customize multiple VoiceOver voices to suit your needs. You can quickly access these voices using the Rotor Actions or the VoiceOver Quick Settings.

How to Add VoiceOver Voices to the Voices Feature on iOS

  1. Open Settings: Start by opening the Settings app with a double tap on your iOS device.
  2. Go to Accessibility: Scroll down and double tap on "Accessibility."
  3. Select VoiceOver: Under the Vision section, double tap on "VoiceOver."
  4. Tap on Speech: In the VoiceOver settings, double tap on "Speech."
  5. Add a New Voice: double Tap on "Add Rotor Voice..." to see a list of available voices.
  6. Choose a Voice: Browse through the list and select the voice you want to add. You can swipe up on a voice to hear a sample.
  7. Download the Voice: After selecting a voice, double tap "Download" to add it to your device.
  8. Set Up Rotor Actions: Go back to the VoiceOver settings and double tap on "Rotor." Ensure that "Voices" is selected so you can quickly switch between voices using the Rotor.
  9. Quick Settings Access: You can also access the new voices through the VoiceOver Quick Settings by two finger quadruple tap and selecting "Voice."

Now, you can easily switch between your customized VoiceOver voices to enhance your accessibility experience on iOS 18.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as Anonymouse.

I'm going to be talking about a feature called Voices.

So as you know, we have our primary voice over voice that we use each and every day on our device.

Wouldn't it be great that you are able to access various voices more than just one voice over on the fly?

Yep, you can do that.

It lives right in your rotor, if that's where you would like it to be.

In my case, I have it in my rotor itself.

You can also put that in the voice over quick settings if you wish to.

And I'll be showing you how to add that to your rotor and quick setting if that's something you want to do.

But in my case, whenever I do a podcast, you probably always hear that I use Siri number 4 voice, in short is Noel.

And this is what I use when I do podcasting, but every so often I like to change things up and here's some other voice and that would be Tom and Hans.

So those are my top two voices.

And so in order to access it so quickly and easily, I place the voices in within my rotor.

So let me give you an example of what it sounds like and what it looks like.

So I'm going to access my rotor and I'm going to go to Voices.

Voices, Siri voice 4, default, selected.

So if I swipe up, Tom, primary voice.

I have the Tom primary voice.

Or if I could just swipe up again, Siri voice 4, default.

I'm back to Siri voice number 4.

So this is when I'm talking about how you are able to access voices so easily from your rotor or your quick settings, if that's what you choose to do.

So let me show you how I got that set up.

But before we can do anything, we need to add voices so you can…




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From Friendly to Professional: The Power of iOS Writing Tools

In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to use Writing Tools in iOS 18.1. Writing Tools, released as part of the first set of Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.1 is an impressive feature that allows users to rewrite text in different tones, such as friendly, professional, and concise, with an added proofread option.

To use this feature, open the text you want to edit and highlight it. Within the Edit section of your Rotor, you'll find the Writing Tools option. Different tone options will appear for you to choose from. Select the desired tone, and iOS will automatically adjust the text accordingly. If you opt for the proofread option, it will check for grammatical and stylistic errors, providing suggestions for improvement. This feature makes it easier to tailor your writing for different contexts and ensure it's polished and effective.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as AnonyMouse.

I'm going to be talking to you about an Apple Intelligent feature called the writing tools.

Now this is one of my most favorite feature of the Apple Intelligent that Apple has to offer.

Now in order to be able to use the Apple Intelligent, you must need the following iPhone criteria, which is iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or newer devices.

If you have those devices, then you will earn luck.

The first thing we need to do is make sure that Apple Intelligent is turned on.

Simple enough to turn it on, you'll have to head over to your settings.

So let's head over to settings, and let's do one finger double tap and open this.

And now what we're looking for, we're looking for Apple Intelligent in Siri, so swipe to the right until you find that button.

One finger double tap, open that.

Now you may have heard the word beta.

Well, at this time of the podcast that's being recorded, it is in beta.

So Apple Intelligent is in beta at this moment.

Now if you don't hear the beta, don't worry.

That might mean that the beta is no longer in beta.

So to make sure we are in the same place in this right area, let's go to the very top left hand corner where you have the back button.

To get to there, you can either tap at the top left or use a forefinger tap on the top half of your device until you hear the back button.

Now if you swipe to the right, that's where you heard the beta.

Now in your case, if you don't hear the beta, have no worries, let's keep going to the right.

Now we're into the Apple Intelligent section.

Now if you go to the right here, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into your iPhone apps and Siri, learn more link, use the rotor to access links.

You can do that if you wish.

If you want to find more information about the Apple Intelligent and all the features that has to offer, double tap that and I'll take you to the web page at Apple to talk to you about more about Apple Intelligent.

But what we're looking for is the option to turn the Apple Intelligent on and that should be the next item up.

If you go to the…





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Lunch date for city’s press

One of Britain’s favourite comedians – national treasure Joe Pasquale – is to be guest speaker at Birmingham Press Club’s Christmas lunch on Tuesday, December 3rd.





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Barber House open for business

Expansion at city centre barbers.



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  • The Barber House

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Outsourcing your Content to boost your Business’ Online Success

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Celebrated war correspondent to speak at Press Club

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Birmingham Press Club hosts Christmas dinner

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Birmingham Press Club hosts leading broadcaster event

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Black Country councils’ assistance for small business recognised

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Marketing workshop boosts business branding

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Cine-Excess to showcase rebel filmmakers

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Local business invests in creative talent

Design and marketing specialists employ young workers.




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Award for Jewellery Quarter business

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Remembrance service held for city homeless

Taking time at Christmas to remember homeless who passed away in Birmingham.





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Coventry conference demonstrates the business benefits of digital technology

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Business school receives Downing Street award

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