Securing Your Digital Life And Accessible Fitness Apps

Welcome to episode 72 of the Blind Tech Guys. We appreciate you taking time out of your day to listen and we trust you will enjoy the latest episode of the pod. We also welcome all of the new countries that have come onboard over the last week. Happy Chinese New Year. Thank you to Strap.tech for mentioning our podcast in their newsletter, as well as to Top Tech Tidbits.

 

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Main Topic

 

We discussed privacy and security of your phone. While a VPN is not the answer to being “hack-proof”, it can go a long way to keeping you safe, particularly on public wireless networks.

Kirt demonstrated Surfshark, his preferred VPN app and service.Learn more and get links to your platform of choice at the Surfshark Website

Nimer discussed the need of anti-virus programs on PC and phones.

We recommend Sophos Home.Learn more and get links to your platform of choice at the Sophos Home website

 

Get Fit

 

Marco told us about the fitness apps he has tried on Android whilst he’s gone back to the gym and in next week’s show, he will demonstrate these, plus others that may be of interest.

 

Did you know??

 

Telegram is a great alternative to WhatsApp for your chatting needs. We have previously discussed the Android and iOS version. We discuss Unigram, a Windows app to use Telegram. Unigram is accessible with both Jaws for Windows and NVDA. 

Check out the Unigram github page, where you can learn about and download it.
You can also get it from the Microsoft Store.

 

Listener Emails

 

We addressed some comments from our web form, and a listener email this week. 

 

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