GUNWHARF Quays are celebrating the New Year by opening a new dining area.

Harry Ellis was backed to succeed by the legendary Jack Nicklaus as he prepared to make his Masters debut.

A HAMPSHIRE resident has been rescued from their home by emergency services.

SOUTHAMPTON GP surgeries have seen a significant drop in appointments due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

ONE of the largest independent food wholesalers in the south has rapidly turned itself into a home delivery service along the same lines as the supermarkets.

A HAMPSHIRE ferry operator hit by the lockdown has launched a Crowdfunding campaign in a bid to keep the service afloat.

SET in the heart of Hampshire it is the historic pub that has had a dramatic makeover.

IT WAS time to go Down Mexico Way - with a visit to the Lone Star State thrown in.

HAMPSHIRE skills and technology are at the heart of the boat which hopes to bring the America's Cup to Britain for the first time in the competition's 166-year history.

Two men remain in custody over the Westminster attack as encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp faced criticism for potentially allowing terrorists to communicate undetected.

Our friends at The Pro Audio Files have compiled a big list of the best audio articles, videos and podcast from 2014. I’ve been seriously…

On December 12th 2015 Luca Fusi gave a talk on comedic sound design for the Vancouver Sound Designers Meetup group. I filmed and edited the presentation for the group's youtube channel.

North Carolina lawmakers gaveled in Tuesday for a legislative session unlike any other — their first since the coronavirus pandemic hit the state.

As death tolls rise, new testing information surfaces and doctors race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, breaking news is not in short supply.

Former Vice President Joe Biden denies a sexual assault allegation by former Senate aide Tara Reade. The presumptive Democratic nominee spoke publicly about the allegation this morning for the first time.

Eleanor Spicer Rice spent her childhood fascinated by ants, flies, maggots, bones and other natural curiosities. Her family encouraged that inquisitiveness — her father would take her on walks in the swamps near their Goldsboro home, and her parents never told her the bugs that enchanted her were gross.

North Carolina’s coastal counties draw millions of visitors each year with their scenic shorelines and festive events. Tourism is the primary economic driver in beach communities like Corolla, in Currituck County, but the coronavirus will prevent hotels, restaurants, vacation rentals and events from operating at full capacity this summer.

North Carolina transitions into the first phase of easing coronavirus restrictions today at 5 p.m. Gov. Roy Cooper and Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, announced the new guidelines on Tuesday: retail businesses are allowed to open at 50% capacity with cleaning and social distancing standards, while bars, salons, gyms and entertainment venues will remain closed. People can visit non-family members in small gatherings.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to customize the music apps's equalizer.

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• Apple Issues iPhone FaceTime Security Warning
• iOS 12.1.4 Now Available with Group FaceTime Bug Fix
• Apple plans star-studded March 25th event to unveil video and news subscription services
• Apple Plans to Have Streaming TV Service Ready to Launch by Mid-April
• Apple's 2019 hardware roadmap calls for at least 11 new products
• Apple plans to merge iOS and macOS apps by 2021
• iPhone Upgrade Cycle Now Estimated at Four Years, Up from Three Years in 2018
• Questionable Rumor Suggests iOS 13 Will Drop Compatibility for iPhone 5s Through iPhone 6s
• Notes of interest from Apple's Q4 2018 earnings report and conference call
• Clew
• Podcast: Getting Around Indoors with the Clew for iOS
• MiniWiki
• Future of GoldGun: Production discontinued
• GoldGun
• Dot to Dot: A daily 5min Echo demo from Alexa by Robin Christopherson on Apple Podcasts
• Samsung's foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980
• Tip: How to Monitor the Battery Levels of All Your iPhone Bluetooth Accessories
• Podcast: How to Check a Battery Status of All of your iPhone Bluetooth Accessories

You can contact the Unleashed Team with feedback or questions at unleashed@applevis.com

In this podcast, Humberto Avila takes us through Frotz, a repository and engine for playing interactive text based fiction games on iOS.

Get Frotz for free in the App Store.

In this podcast, Harrison Tutechluver takes us through the Ready to Roll - RPG for iOS, which is a blind and low vision accessible RPG dice manager. Also suitable for sighted players.

‎Ready to Roll - RPG Dice on the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ready-to-roll-rpg-dice/id1445804669?mt=8...

In this podcast, Humberto Avila takes us through Microsoft To-Do, which is a simple and intelligent to-do list that makes it easy to plan your day. Whether it's for work, school or home, To-Do will help you increase your productivity and decrease your stress levels. It combines intelligent technology and beautiful design to empower you to create a simple daily workflow. Organize your day with To-Do's smart Suggestions and complete the most important tasks or chores you need to get done, every day. To-Do syncs between your phone and computer, so you can access your to-dos from school, the office, or the grocery store or even while you're traveling around the world.

‎Microsoft To-Do on the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-to-do/id1212616790

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to find the estimated value of your device with Apple GiveBack.

In this podcast, Graham Langford gives us a quick tip of how to customize contact labels in iOS.

In this podcast, Robin Christopherson takes us through some nice new features recently added to Microsoft's popular Seeing AI app for iOS.

In this podcast, Tyler Stephen gives us a Quick Tip: Using the Text Selection Rotor to Select Text on iOS.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Voice Dream Scanner, a recently released OCR app for iOS from the developer of the popular Voice Dream Reader app.

From the App Store:

Scan paper documents with the camera and recognize text. Listen using built-in text-to-speech. Save and export. Unlimited use: no subscriptions or additional charges.

State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions. Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.

Export scans as plain text or PDF with embedded text to another app, or save them on your local device, iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive.

Works with Voice Dream Reader, our full-featured text-to-speech reader. After downloading this app, you will be able access the scanner directly from Reader and add scanned documents to your Reader library.

In this podcast, Robin Christopherson of the RNIB Tech Talk podcast introduces us to Rocket , a Mac App which claims to be the fastest, smoothest Slack-style emoji picker for your Mac.

Link to App on MacUpdate.com:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/57331/rocket

In this podcast, Scott Davert shows us the features available with MFi supported hearing aids or Cochlear Implant processors from the perspective of a VoiceOver user. MFi compatible hearing aids come from many manufacturers and there are numerous models supported. You can see Apple's official support page which gives a fairly accurate account of which hearing aids have MFi support. However, this article has not been updated since October 2018, so anything newer than that will not be listed on this page.

For more general information about hearing aids from a blindness perspective, you can listen to this Accessibility Moving Forward podcast featuring some familiar voices to AppleVis.

Finally, there is a mailing list for blind hearing aid users that you can join by sending a blank email to blindhearingaidusers+subscribe@groups.io.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to enable Reader View in Safari automatically for iOS.

In this short podcast, Graham Langford shares three quick tips on where you can use a 1-finger double-tap and hold (also known as a “long-press”) to be more efficient and productive on iOS.

1. Quickly access draft emails in the iOS Mail app with a “long-press” on the Compose button.
2. Quickly archive an email message with a “long-press” on the Delete button.
3. “Long-press” on the Delete key on the iOS keyboard to delete text faster - in some instances, the speed will increase incrementally with the amount of time you are holding the key.

Please post a comment to share your own tips on where “hidden” iOS features such as these make you more efficient and productive.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to AdGuard Pro for iOS. AdGuard Pro is More than just ad blocking in Safari! It’s the most effective adblock browser plugin with data tracking prevention. With AdGuard Pro you can select different DNS service providers, which opens new possibilities: faster and more reliable internet access both for Wi-Fi and cellular connections, parental control, protection from phishing and malware and shielding your DNS traffic against interception and snooping. Add to this the Privacy module that detects trackers in real time and lets you decide which to block and which to let through. And all this on top of the excellent ad blocking in Safari, which has already proven to be of an unrivaled quality by the free AdGuard for iOS version.

‎AdGuard Pro — adblock on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adguard-pro-adblock/id1126386264?mt=8

In this podcast, Thomas Domville revisit the Voice: OCR Document Reader for iOS. Take a picture of anything that has words on it, and Voice will read it to you! Updated with top notch technology, Voice will let you listen to all your books/words/documents/magazines in a matter of seconds.

‎Voice: OCR Document Reader on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-take-picture-have-it/id903772588?ign...

In the first of two podcast exploring some of what's new in iOS 13, Thomas Domville showcases some of what's new and changed for VoiceOver users. This includes:

• Customizing VoiceOver's haptic feedback
• More responsive VoiceOver when exploring by touch
• Using Voice Control with VoiceOver
• Customizing VoiceOver gestures
• Customizing VoiceOver keyboard shortcuts
• VoiceOver Activities; set custom VoiceOver configurations for specific tasks
• New VoiceOver rotor item: Context Menu
• QuickPath; slide to type
• Scrollbars for faster navigation
• Spoken and haptic guidance when taking photos
• Enhanced Siri US female voice

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and explores how in iOS 13 users have the capability to customize VoiceOver gestures.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and explores how in iOS 13 users have the capability to customize the haptic feedback given when performing VoiceOver gestures.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and explores how in iOS 13 users have the capability to create custom VoiceOver configurations for different tasks. For example, having a Different VoiceOver voice, speaking rate, and verbosity level for when using a specific app.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to use QuickPath, a native swipe keyboard new in iOS 13 that allows you to type by sliding your finger across the onscreen keyboard.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Voice Control, a brand-new accessibility feature in iOS 13 that lets you control every single aspect of your iOS device using only your voice.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to “silence unknown callers”, a new feature in iOS 13 that helps you block unwanted calls without having to block callers one by one.

With this feature enabled, unknown callers will automatically be sent to voicemail, meaning that robocalls, spam calls, and other unwanted distractions will no longer be able to bother you.

Earlier this year Apple came under some criticism after a report by the Guardian on how Apple hired contractors to listen to a small percentage of anonymized ‌Siri‌ recordings to evaluate the responses with the purpose of improving accuracy and reliability.

In response, Apple promised that it would introduce options in a forthcoming update that would allow users to opt out of sharing their audio recordings.

Those options arrived with the releases of iOS 13.2, iPadOS 13.2, and macOS 10.15.1.

In this podcast, Tyler walks us through how to access and change these new options.

Join Thomas Domville also known as AnonyMouse as he brings some Disney magic in demonstrating the Disney+ for iOS. Only Disney+ gives you endless access to your favorite movies and TV series from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. From The Lion King, to all-new Originals like The Mandalorian, there's something exciting for everyone. You'll also get access to new movies, complete

‎Disney+ on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/disney/id1446075923

Did you know that you can use Apple Podcast on your Alexa devices ? In this podcast Thomas Domville show us how to use Apple Podcast with your Alexa devices .

Are you receiving too many announcements from Apple? Have no fret as Thomas Domville shows us how to stop Apple notifications for announcements, special offers, music, TV and more. So, take in charge of your subscriptions as you can disable these types of notifications or pick and choose which you want to keep receiving.

Have you always wanted to be able to sing along with your favorite tunes? Not sure what the lyric is for a song? Dive in with Thomas Domville as he shows you how to use the lyrics feature in Apple Music on iOS. Become the next Karaoke star!

In this podcast, Tyler Stephen demonstrates what to do if an app on your Mac becomes unresponsive.

In this podcast Thomas Domville shows us how to add nicknames to Contacts on iOS.

Would you like to have Siri respond to you when your device is covered or face down? Then you are in luck as Thomas Domville shows us how to make Hey Siri listen with the Facedown Detection or covered in iOS.

Apple has updated Siri to answer some simple questions about Covid-19 for users in the USA.

In this podcast, Troy Larson shows us how voice queries like “Hey Siri, do I have the coronavirus?” will lead you through a series of quick questions about symptoms such as a dry cough and shortness of breath.

Siri is by no means a replacement for a medical professional, but its answers have been provided by the US Public Health Service, and Siri can direct you to the Centers for Disease Control website or even prompt you to ring the emergency services.