Amazon Firestick 4K Max: Use as Bluetooth no HDMI

I didn’t realise this until last night. You can use the Amazon Firestick with Voice view, without being tethered to a HDMI connection.

First, you must complete initial setup with the firestick connected through an HDMI receiver, such as a TV or audio receiver.

Next,

From the Home Screen navigate to settings.
Select ‘Controllers and Bluetooth Devices’,
Navigate to Other Bluetooth Devices’
Put your Bluetooth speaker in pairing mode.
Select your device from the ‘Discovered Devices’ list with the down arrow key and press select..

Once the speaker is paired you may disconnect the HDMI and use the Firestick wherever you have a solid wifi connection

Happy Easter, VeggieTales, Larry flips, the bunny

Happy Easter, everyone, I think about this thing I made along time ago every Easter, it still cracks me up. If you haven’t heard the original.

Then, you no doubt won’t get the below audio. If you do know it, ha ha ha.

550 dry voiceovers for Internet radio use professionally voiced by Drew Weber

In today’s radio world, it’s natural to have multiple voiceover talent, both male and female.

Below is a, 100% royalty free to download, and free to use library of over 550 male VO cuts, recorded in a professional studio, voiced by Drew Weber and mastered for maximum impact!

Formats included in this library cover CHR, country, rock, and more!

Download below and get your prod on.

Navigate Excel spreadsheets quickly, review tabbed delimited documents in Notepad with standard table review commands. NotepadTableScriptsForExcelSpreadsheetV1.0

NotepadTableScriptsForExcelSpreadsheet v 1.0
Released 03/11/23
Written by Drew Weber, Twitter @_IllegallyBlind

These scripts will allow you to navigate tab delimited documents with eas in notepad using familior table reading commands. The keystrokes don’t get in the way of any other notepad curser/editing commands. You may select all, copy, and paste an Excel spreadsheet into Notepad and in most instances, much more quickly review the document vs review in excel. If you edit the document within Notepad, you may select all, copy, and paste the document back in excel and it will hold it’s same placement in the worksheet.

usage:

Control+alt+down arrow: moves down a line on the current column
Control+alt+Up arrow: moves up a line on the current column.
Control+alt+Left arrow: moves left on the current row.
Control+alt+Righ arrow: moves right on the current row.
control+windows+home: resets columns and rows so you can start reading from the start of the line.
Control+alt+enter sets your curser to edit where your currently reading.

Instalation:
From the NotepadTableScriptsForExcelSpreadsheet zip archive,
open the
Notepad-JSS.txt file.
Select all, with control+a,
copy, with control+c.
Hit, insert+0 to open the JAWS script manager. The, Shared Notepad dot JSS file will open.
Hit, control+end to get to the bottom of the file and make sure you are on a blank line.
Hit, control+v to paste the copied scripts.
Hit control+s to save the file. JAWS should report, compile complete.
Hit, control+f4, to close the user, notepad dot JSS file but keep the script manager open.
Alt+tab back to the, NotepadTableScriptsForExcelSpreadsheet zip archive
up arrow to the file, notepad.JKM
hit control+C, note, you will not be opening this file.
Alt+tab back to the Script Manager.
Hit, control+o to bring up the open dialogue.
Shift+tab twice, to get to the list view
Hit control+v to paste the notepad.JKM file into the list view.
Escape, to close out of the open dialogue.
Alt+f4 to close the script manager.
Restart JAWS.
You should be good to go with the new scripts.

Braille input, speech output, notetaker #Notey , available soon for under $450. Beta, audio demo

I shared a QWERTY notetaker last year that I built and gave purchase specs to. This year, I will bring you a Braille In note taker, which I call #Notey for under $450. This note taker is small, light, runs Windows11 and fits into a Fanny pack. Runs for around 8 hours on battery power between charges. The sub opporating system which I am coding is in beta, and I still need to flesh out several features. I hope to release in the next couple of months. Thanks to those who let me know The audio was too low of volume. Hopefully this is better for a normal volume levelListening experience. Please excuse the 60 HC cycle hum.Audio demo below.

Picasso guitar bow demo

Have you ever wanted to bow your guitar like Jimmy page? I’ve always wanted to find a violin that was tune like a guitar and had six strings. This is the best of both worlds!

Think of a stick, a bit shorter than a drumstick with the bow hair on both sides. There’s a handle at the top. This goes down into your guitar strings into the body of your acoustic guitar. So you pull this bow up and down.

.There is Rozen. The Rozen comes in a small box and is also wrapped in cardboard so you have to unwrap the Rozen. If you’ve never seen a Rozen before, think of a bar of soap. You rub the Rozen vigorously up and down both sides of the bow. I’ve only played with this for about 15 minutes, so no doubt I have to get better lol. Here is a demo audio below.

https://www.pickasobow.com

JAWS Scripts for Spotify For Windows v1point2point4point912

JAWS Scripts for spotify for Windows, v1.2.4.912.
Written by Drew Weber
Twitter @_IllegallyBlind
Released: 02/7/2023
Note: Before I started developing these scripts, I did a Google search for another created script set. I found that in the past there was something but all the links were broken. I do not believe there are other publically available scripts for this current version of Spotify for Windows. I am not trying to step on anyone elses toes. If your celling Spotify Scripts and I’m disturbing that project, all you have to do is hit me up, we’ll talk, a comment on this post and I’m happy to remove my set if need be. Thank you. I have removed all of Freedom Scientifics scripting out of my Spotify JAWS Scripts release.
Spotify is accessible out of the box with the current version of the app, these scripts though make navigation through Spotify much quicker.

Instalation
Copy the
Spotify.JKM
Spotify.jsb
Spotify.JSD
files into your JAWS settings directory for example,
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\2023\Settings\enu
shutdown and restart JAWS.
Usage:
Music controls.
Pause currently playing track: Control+shift+space.
Previous Track: Control+shift+left arrow.
Next Track: Control+shift+right arrow.
Volume Down: Control+Shift+Down arrow.
Volume up: Control+shift+up arrow.
Shuffle: Control+shift+s.
Repeat: Control+shift+r.
App controls.
Drop into the Search edit box: control+s.
Play first: this command, control+shift+p, is used after typing in the search criteria, and hitting enter to perform the search. If you haven’t clicked
on an artist link the first play button will be activated. If you have clicked on an artist, the music played may be more defined.
User menu: brings up account related options, profile, settings etc. Control+m.
Add to library: Control+l. Adds currently playing track to library/liked tracks. Does not download track for offline listening.