With just a small touch of the holiday season MainMenu brings you breaking news on the latest happenings in the assistive technology field. And, three very informative presentations to help you get more out of your new tech devices. Complements of the Blind Square Podcast we learn how to use blind square with apple maps. MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge brings us two new demos on new features in oSX 10.10: 1. New browsing mode with voice over on Yosemite 2. Setting up sms relay from iPhone to mack

Demonstrating Blind Square in combination with Google Maps, voice commands and iBooks with Yosemite are the features on this episode of MainMenu.

This week MainMenu is packed full with a lot of new and valuable information for you... David Tanner reviews the Capti Navagator iOS app and shows you how to use many of the great features in Capti Navagator. Then MainMenu Staff Member David Woodbridge brings us a group of demonstrations including: A. How to answer a call from your iPhone on our Mac. B. How to place a call from your Mac using your iPhone. C. Starting use of an app on an iOS device and completeing what you are doing on your Mac or the reverse. D. Learning to use the new notification area on your Mac and iOS devices.

MainMenu starts off this week with an exciting announcement from Comcast Cable about their new Talking Guide for their X1 set top box. We will hear about some of the features of the new talking Guide, and you can get more information at http://corporate.comcast.com/news-information/news-feed/talkingguide And then Nicholas Acosta brings us a presentation on how you can become a developer of apps for iOS devices. It is an exciting week on MainMenu, and it is filled with exciting and valuable information that you will not want to miss.

If you like to play games we have a couple of new ones for you this week on MainMenu... Larry Turnbull, Managing Director of acbradio brings us a demonstration of Silver Dollar game for Windows. Joseph Lee introduces us to an audio tutorial for the Non-Visual Desktop Access NVDA screen reader. NVDA is available from www.nvaccess.org. And, Larry Turnbull returns with a demonstration of the iOS game Zombie Arcade.

Remapping your Mac keyboard to playing Shades Of Doom on your PC and lots more are waiting for you on MainMenu this week... Larry Turnbull, Managing Director of ACBRadio, demonstrates using the Audible Books app on your iOS device. Thanks to Cool Blind Tech - Garth shows us how to remap the keys on our Mac to make things more convenient and easy to remember. Finally, Larry Turnbull returns to show us how to play the Shades Of Doom game on our PC.

Announcements of several software updates and all about the upcoming release of Magic version 13. David Tanner interviews Dusty Voorheis, Senior Product Manager for Freedom Scientific about the upcoming release of the Magic large print software version 13. And, David Woodbridge demonstrates the handoff feature in iOS 8.0 using a iPhone 6 Plus and an iPad Mini both with iOS 8 installed. We will also be telling you about releases of iOS 8.1 and Jaws 16 public beta 3.

We explore a great set of information on MainMenu this week. We start with david Woodbridge demonstrating typing Braille on his iPhone, a new feature in iOS 8. Then Larry Turnbull, acbradio Managing Director interviews Samual Adler from Humanware about a recent upgrade in the Protoget. David Woodbridge returns with a demonstration of using the MB Memic app for Android and iOS to emboss Braille on an Mount Batton Embosser. And, Tim Cumings reviews the Road NT USB multiple use microphone for use with iPad and many other devices.

What is new with Victor Reader Stream and Skype for iOS devices? You will hear all about it here on MainMenu along with some other tech info you wanted to know about... Larry Turnbolt, Managing Director for acbradio.org interviews Matthew from Humanware about the features in the latest firmware release of the Victor Reader Stream and even tells you where you can get the free upgrade and an audio demo/tutorial of the new features. Then Scott Davert brings us a demonstration of using the latest version of Skype on his iOS device. He will cover all the main features of this new release so you can see how well it works with VoiceOver on your iOS device.

Some changes are coming at MainMenu and we give you all the good news on MainMenu this week... MainMenu Host David Tanner hosts a panel interview with Chase Crispin and acbradio Managing Director Larry and Assistant Managing Director Jeff of acb radio about a few changes in MainMenu since Chase will no longer be our Executive Producer for MainMenu. MainMenu Staff Member David Woodbridge brings us two presentations to round out the show: First David introduces and demonstrates the iPhone 6 Plus. And, David then demonstrates the Handoff feature in iOS 8 using an iPhone 6 and an iPad Mini.