O’dear, Another Security Update for iOS, This Time IOS 14.4.2

Guess Apple is keeping all the bad people out.

https://www.imore.com/you-should-definitely-get-latest-ios-14-update-heres-why?utm_source=im_tw&utm_medium=tw_card&utm_content=74516&utm_campaign=social

Blind and Low Vision Australian’s Shut  Out Off COVID Vaccine Finder Website - Article from the Guardian

Honestly this doesn’t surprise me, and whilst there are automated test systems to test for web compliance, you need humans to do the real test.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/26/blind-and-low-vision-australians-shut-out-of-covid-vaccine-finder-website

A $15 US Remote Replacement for the Not So Good Apple TV Siri Remote

Yes, buttons and no touch screen what so ever.

https://bgr.com/2021/03/26/apple-tv-remote-replacement-amazon-prime-no-touchpad/

Calls TV Series on Apple TV Plus

Review

A haunting Scifi TV Series in the vein of the Twilight zone based around seemingly random phone conversations with only audio wave forms on the screen: fully Audio Described.

Very much like watching a radio Scifi drama back in the day.

https://www.ign.com/articles/calls-season-1-review-apple-tv-plus-pedro-pascal-rosario-dawson

Apple TV Plus Official Trailler of Calls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfpzdSJlv6o

Anyone Else Having Issues with Hand Off Between iPhone and HomePod

Oddly enough at the moment, I can hand Off between my iPhone Se 2020 and my HomePod by bringing the iPhone close to the speaker, oddly this doesn’t work on my iPhone 12 Pro.

A Note About The New Talking Bathroom Scales from Vision Australia

I received mine last week and noticed 2 things that the manual states and which seem to be incorrect:

The unit takes 2 AAA battery’s not 3, and

There is no actual button to change units of weight measurement (actually no button).

I also had to chuckle in the manual under Care the following line:

Do not drop or beat the device.

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/es0365

Mac OS X turns 20

Amazing it has been around for 20 years, but still good to note that VoiceOver did not actually appear until 2005, and before that with System 9 for the Macs, there were no screen readers.

https://www.cultofmac.com/738104/mac-os-x-turns-20-most-important-software-in-apple-history/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

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