Cearbhall that was a fantastic account and well documented. I love your
weekly presentations, they're so accurate and well presented!
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Subject: [fb-exchange] Cork Meeting Saturday 28th. November 2020
In Attendance: (12 participants)
Cearbhall O'Meadhra, Jackie McBrearty, Paul Griffith, Dominique Farrell, Ken
Walsh Sean Kavanagh, Chris Egan, Martha Parkinson, Martin Kelly, Pat
McCarthy, Pat Walsh, Derry Walsh
Apologies: Gavin Allman
The meeting got off to an early start with an intense discussion on home
devices. With Black Friday under way people are buying the Amazon Echo to
reverberate throughout Christmas! Martin was stunned to hear that Curry's
were twice the price of purchases through Amazon.
Sean described the need to send the contents of an email to someone who has
no email address. He hoped to be able to send the email as an SMS message.
Cearbhall And Flor Lynch were involved in seeking an answer. The conclusion
was that this is possible in other jurisdictions but is not available within
Ireland.
Sean wanted to remove some email addresses from the AutoComplete list in
Outlook on his laptop. Jackie, Ken and Pat McCarthy explained that the
AutoComplete list is nothing to do with the Address book where full contact
information is held. Cearbhall was sent to Google and found the advice that
Sean need only start typing the address of his old acquaintance and press
"Delete" on it as soon as it appears in the edit window. If the individual
is included in the actual Address Book, then Control+shift+b will open the
Address book where he can search for the name of the individual and click
"delete" when it is found. This will remove all details of that contact.
Pat McCarthy and Martha have the Outlook app on their iPhone. They agreed
that it is very handy and easier to use than the desktop app. In fact,
Martha prefers to use the Outlook app instead of the generic Mail app on her
iPhone. Pat offered it as a useful backup to the desktop version.
pat Walsh, negotiating with Vodafone on his package, was advised to dial
1907 and go through Sales, not Repairs, as he will get a quicker response
that way. he also found that emails were coming in to his iPhone but not
into Outlook on his PC. He sought the assistance of Vodafone who declared
that all was in order. However, being a resourceful person, Pat called upon
the skills of a techy colleague at work who found that the Vodafone DNS was
actually faulty and reinstated it. The service is now functioning perfectly
after this change.
Chris reported that he is about to enjoy the fourth visit from the technical
support team to fix his terrestrial wireless connection to the internet. He
is not optimistic. Pat McCarthy suggested that he seek a satellite
connection to gain unbroken access to the service. He noted that there would
be a delay of one or two seconds as the signal made its way from ground to
satellite and back to ground. He also thought it might be more expensive but
perhaps it might be worth it as a compromise.
Jackie gave a rundown of the benefits of the amazon fire 7 tablet. She
explained various controls which she found very accessible. Noreen wondered
what advantage the Fire tablet gives one. Martin wants it to download the
NCBI Easy Reader. Jackie finds it useful because she Cannot buy books
directly from the Amazon app but can do so from the Amazon fire. Martin
pointed out that one can download different apps such as net flicks, Amazon
books. Jackie said the advantage was in keeping books separate from her
phone. Pat McCarthy pointed out that it uses gestures similar to iPhone.
Ken and Jackie explained that to enable Alexa to purchase items from Amazon,
"Voice Purchasing" must first be enabled in Alexa.
Noreen wondered if a new Amazon device would get confused with her existing
Echo. All explained that she could change the name but that the new Echo
would be set to be called Alexa by default and so there should be no
problem. If she wanted to change the name, the steps are: go into settings,
audio, double-tap on "Wake Word" and change it.
Jackie needs a padlock for her oil tank. Her former lock had to be cut away
because of corrosion. The futility of locking the oil tank led to a run of
stories led by Chris who pointed out that thieves just drill a hole in the
base of the tank and ignore the lock. This drains the tank and leaves the
householder with a major headache. Pat McCarthy explained that the air vent
gives another means of free access to the tank which is big enough to insert
a tube and siphon out the contents. Paul fills his tank in the Summer months
to avoid detection by thieves. Chris concluded with advice to Jackie that
she seek a marine lock that will not corrode. Various Apps with Digital
readouts were discussed but nothing conclusive emerged. Noisy alarms were
discussed but are not available or could be triggered by passing birds and
small animals.
The topic of Christmas landed with a bang and a major struggle developed
between Alexa and all five of her owners in various households as they
searched for Christmas FM, which opened today. The excitement rose to fever
pitch as various owners demanded Christmas FM (definitely NOT "Classic"!) in
urgent and commanding tones to no avail. In fact, poor Dominique was driven
to distraction but persisted again and again, at the urging of all the other
owners, to try this and try that and, finally, Martin Kelly rose to the
challenge and produced the magic words:
"Alexa, Christmas FM Live on TuneIn!"
Exhausted and worn out without even a wet pub to turn to, the meeting ended.
Cearbhall
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