Mara’s Musings

GoPro Experiment

so I want to find the most accessible, versatile camera set up I can. I have two cameras — a GoPro and a samsung one that I forget the specs on. I also have my iPhone.

This week I am going to experiment with the GoPro iPhone combination as a totally blind person.

Be My Eyes

I have just got a new computer, another Mac from Apple. I spent the past few days setting it up. This is run of the mill stuff — I migrated all my content over from my old Mac. But there were some messages that VoiceOver, the built-in screenreader that comes with Mac OS wouldn’t read. This post is about what…

My Geographical

I want to share with you all about my Geographical to Sydney. What I didn’t tell you was I was going to see a friend and was abandoned to my own devices by friend for most of the week I was gone.

On Sunday April 2, I walked a mile up the Pacific Highway to find somewhere to…

#Ask me Anything #Scope

Hello to all my followers here on Wordpress!
Tomorrow morning local time I will be doing an ask me anything scope on periscope.

For those of you who don’t know Periscope is a real time live video streaming platform owned by Twitter…

A Brief Report

Well after months of absence I am pleased to say I am still here.

I have 3 voluntary jobs — one is the FMU I have done it for years, the other is with RYAN [Refugee Youth Action network] and the third is the role I have held for many years on the Blind Citizens local…

News and Travels, mostly the latter

Went to Melbourne, Australia for the weekend of the 20th May to the Monday the 23rd. Finally have time to blog about it.

Melbourne is a beautiful city with lots of old buildings and Victorian architecture. Ma and me went shopping but she…

Reporting In

Well, a lot and not much has happened since I last posted here.

Most exciting news is me and Ma are going on holiday to Melbourne, Australia, for the weekend. We shall return on Monday. We hope to shop and have fun! The weather there looks the same as here — cloudy and a little…

IPad Issues — Virus maybe?

Well recently I have been mucking around with website building on the iPad. I have been looking up all kinds of stuff to do with web design on my Mac. Yesterday my Mac caught a virus, Bankworm, which I managed to remove. But now my iPad is acting strange. 
I was trying to do…