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I have a quick tip using Spotlight on iPhone with voiceover so first, what is Spotlight? Spotlight is how you search anything on your device or on the Internet all in one place. You can do a ton of stuff with it. You can do calendar events, you can do to do's. You can do all kinds of stuff. It's limitless. You can even open apps from there or do Internet searches. The way you would access this from the home screen is you would do a three finger swipe down from the top. Then you're going to see a search box show up at the top of your screen and there's going to usually be some immediate icons or other little apps that will show up by default because those are things you use most often. Now the more you use Spotlight that might change. If you're looking to access Spotlight faster, then check this out from the lock screen. You do a three finger swipe down and Spotlight shows up right there. You don't even have to click into your phone to go to the desktop or any of that. So that's super fast. Easy. If you're somewhere and you need to look something up or find out some information, all you have to do is click the lock screen, do a three finger swipe down. Spotlight shows up right there with a search bar right at the top and everything and you're searching for whatever it is super fast. So give that a try and enjoy. Marty and myself are both using the Vocaster from focusrite as our audio interface. The setup process though was not the easiest and we struggled with getting Voiceover out of the mix, especially while in Zoom calls. Friend of the show demossey created this content to show you how to use Loopback and get Voiceover out of your mix. Check it out.
How's it going everybody? I just wanted to drop in real quick with a quick tip for those of you who are voiceover users on macOS and also either are considering getting or already on the Focus right vocaster or vocaster 2. The problem to be solved here is I like to be 100% certain of what audio I'm sending where. And I had a couple of friends who tried out the Vocast or owned the Vocaster and on macOS they were unable to reliably ensure that when say in a Zoom call or Skype call that they Were not sending voiceover audio back out over the mix. And of course, as a screen reader user, we're plugged into the interface itself directly and we're routing all of our audio through the interface. Right. But we also want to make sure that people are not hearing voiceover unless that's a part of the plan. So I borrowed one of these and I wanted to, one, try to troubleshoot this issue because I was thinking, well, there are some, you know, outlines on the focusrite website to explain how to do this new virtual device button, you know, try to resolve this issue. Wasn't working for people. So best way for me to deal with that is to get some hands on time with the interface. I did some testing, was able to get audio, just my microphone audio, going into recording applications just fine. I tried out voice memos actually on the Mac, and that was fine. But as soon as I jumped into a Zoom meeting a couple of days later, well, guess what? They were hearing me. They were hearing voiceover. They were even hearing themselves. Now, fortunately, it was my podcast co host and very good friend, Michael Babcock. So one, he understood what was going on, and two, he was, you know, patient enough for me to resolve the problem. Before we got down to it, we were actually just testing, right? Always test before you go live with anything new. So I reached for the tool that I always reach for on the Mac OS when I need to route audio or manage the flow of audio in any sort of way. And that is loop back from Rogue Amoeba. And the solution I came up with is to basically recreate a version of what focusrite vocaster users get on Windows where they're able to expose the host microphone, the line in or the aux as it's called, the loopback channels. And, you know, pick in within the system, you know, where they want stuff to go. If they want the loop back to go into Zoom, they select that, but if they don't, they just select the host microphone. Right? So I recreated that with loopback in virtual devices to a point. Gonna very quickly walk you through creating the host microphone device at least. And from there the steps are repeatable for what you want to use. First, I'm gonna hit the button to create a new device and I'm gonna name this selection replace host host 1 1. Because it makes my life easier.
New Source menu button. And I'm gonna pick a new source menu arrow up to Vocaster 2 USB. New source menu button, Vocaster 2 USB. And now I have the Vocaster 2 USB here. Now we're going to do a little cleanup before I start adding stuff. So first let's get rid of the pass through device that was automatically added by loop because I don't need to pass audio through this device at all. And now I'm going to go over to the channels that are already here vocaster 2 auto mapped and delete those.
Channels 1 and 2 vocaster 2 USB.
Channel 1 delete so that had output channel vocaster channel 1 going to output 1 vocaster channel 2 going to output 2. Just deleted those. So now there are no connections. Go back to Vocaster and now interact again and I'm down into the channel list and it exposes all of the channels. Big deal or big thanks to focusrite for putting the mapping for the channels on their website for the Vocaster one into so by looking at that map I know that the host microphone on both devices is channel five. So I'm going to add a wire that connects Vocaster channel 5 to output channel 1 to channel output channel 2. And there's my host microphone. And now in Zoom Skype Facetime anywhere within the system I am able to choose the host microphone. And while I'm certain that there are other ways to have accomplished this task, I know as a user and as a semi professional audio user that the audio flowing into Zoom next time I'm in a meeting is only what I intend for people to hear, which is my microphone. Hope you found this helpful to reach out to me on Twitter at damasi D A M A S H e or ping the channel's owner and founder, Michael Babcock at Payown P A Y O W N.
When I think of the holidays, cooking and eating are a major part of what I do together with friends. It's really wonderful to visit over some good food and fellowship. So I thought I would share a really quick tip that may be very common to most, but maybe some of you would like to make this a part of what you do when you find a great recipe online or a website that contains lots of recipes you'd like to visit again, you could bookmark it in your favorites and that's fine, but they're a little bit fiddly to find and maybe there's a faster way to get there. So what I've done is I've created a recipe folder on my iPhone and then I have found apps that I put in there or I found websites that I actually add to my home screen. So I'm going to show you about that. So I have an instant pot And I love, love, love my instant pot. It's so great to be able to cook like a bean soup or chili or something like that in about an hour and no tough beans. The pressure cooking of the instant pot is fantastic. And even if I don't use the app with it, I still love cooking in it. So I have a favorite recipe designer couple, actually. Their names are Amy and Jackie and they have a website for recipes for the instant pot because they're recipe testers and that's what they do for their living. So here is what it says.
Instant pot and pressure cooker recipes heading Level 1 tested Instant Pot recipes and pressure cooker recipes. Bookmark this growing collection of best easy recipes for instant pot pressure cooker Step by step, Instant pot videos and instant pot tips. Have fun cooking, Tilda.
Okay, so their little tagline is have fun cooking basically with the instant pot. So if I wanted to put that link basically on my home screen, what I would do is I would go to the bottom toolbar share button and find this share button, close button 300 plus delicious Instant Pot and quite a ways down. All the options of how you can share this is add to home screen.
We'll swipe there options Airdrop, Mail Message, Mona Drop, Papri Note, Irix Parcel Drive, Crow Document, More Copy button. Add to reading list, Add bookmark button. Add to Favorites Add to quick note button. Find on page button. Add to home screen button. Okay, way down the list. So we're going to double tap add to home screen. Can's text field is editing 300 plus delicious Instant Pot recipes tested by Amy plus Jackie. Insertion point at end.
So you hear we're in a text box and it's quite a lengthy little tagline there. So what I have done and I have already added this to my home screen is that I have shortened that to just Amy and Jackie. When you do that clear text button, or you could clear the text so there's the URL. An icon will be added to your home screen so you can quickly access this website from your default browser.
So when I was swiping right, I heard all that information, but actually the add button is to the left. So after you adjust the text in the field, you're going to double tap the add button. Google folder for apps.
And now this app has been added to my home screen with the name that was in the box that was longer than the name that I have. So that's a great way to bookmark anything, really, whether it's technology or cooking. Any website that you find, you can add it to your home screen for future reference, and it's so much easier to find. New production. For more, check out.