It looks like it was a very good meeting. Lovely to read the minutes,
thanks Cearbhall.
-Adrian
On 2023-09-09 13:58, Cearbhall O'Meadhra wrote:
attendance 10===========================================================
Apologies noted.
In the unusual moist and sweltering heat of a late Autumn Summer with a
sprinkling of thunder the chat was mighty and the banter brisk and
humorous.
Jackie announced, with relief, that all her collections on the iPhone
came back after 24 hours. There was an general failure within Audible
that caused the problem which she reported last week.
Managing diabetes came up for discussion. Pat and Ger use the Libra
freestyle which is described in detail on an NCBI podcast if readers
would like to know more.
Costs of €60 per week were mentioned as the cost of using the
scanner. Sighted assistance is generally needed but Ger uses a
magnifying glass to see the scanner.
The value of the electronic smart scanners is that they can link
directly to the hospital so the clinician can assess the patient's
progress remotely.
An inspired discussion on the meaning of Greek symbols arose from the
use of the word "Libra" as the name of the diabetic scanner.
Paul reported that he was up to 41 in the quick fire quiz on Alexa.
Joanne pipped that with her score of 79 - most impressive!
Martin demonstrated the recently discovered skill on Alexa called The
"oracle of light". which connects to the text-davinci-003 (chatGPT)
language model developed by OpenAI.
Ken and Jackie reported that WhatsApp messenger shows when any user was
last actively using the service.
A highly dramatic moment was reached when Ken announced that he had to
thank Jackie for her brilliance in untangling all his aps and finally
convincing him of the value of folders. Jackie was delighted to receive
this acknowledgment and pointed out that there is no limit to the
number of apps that can be held in one folder. Ken then sought to
demonstrate how easy it is to use folders but suffered the disaster of
losing his apps and their folder during the demonstration. All members
contributed suggestions for the recovery of his apps. Ken found them
again after much heartache and perspiration!
Pat saves himself all these difficulties by organising all his apps by
pages. He has 15 pages with some 350 apps distributed appropriately on
each.
A detailed step-by-step set of instructions was recently sent to the
FB-Exchange List for anyone who would like to start tidying up their
desktop with folders.
An important thing to remember about deleting apps is to note whether
you are using "delete all" or "delete from home screen".
Ann Marie downloaded Soundscape Community and tried it out. She found
it interesting but it did not give her as much information as she gets
from Blind Square.
ken wondered if the "Dynamic Island" on his new iPhone 16 pro was a
useful feature. Jackie could not find anything other than recent
notifications in it and so did not think it worth the trouble of trying
to use it. Here is what Apple says about this feature:
On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, you can check alerts and
current activity in progress—such as music that’s playing, your
timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions from Maps—in the Dynamic
Island on the Home Screen or in any app. The Dynamic Island appears
whenever your iPhone is unlocked.
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/iphone/iph28f50d10d/iossold old ;
phone.
A heated discussion of the distorted links that appear in messages to
the list caused Jackie to promise that she will find a link to some
topic of interest and write a note in MS. Word, pasting in the link and
sending it to the list to see what results.
The meeting closed on the topic of Smart air Friers. Ken was convinced
that the users needs are simple and the cheapest Air frier was as good
as the most expensive smart one. It was noted that the problem with a
smart kitchen device was that one upgrade could make the smart app on
the iPhone inaccessible to a voiceover user.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
