Cearbhall
Fantastic job as always.
All The Best,
Ken
On 31 Jul 2021, at 16:39, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
In attendance: (15 participants)
Mary Lavelle, John Chambers, Derry Walsh, Michael Lorigan, Pat McCarthy,
Jackie McBrearty, Des Keaney, Dominique Farrell, Ken Walsh, Noreen Meagher,
Paul Griffith, Stuart Haxell, Martha Parkinson, Chris Egan, Cearbhall
O'Meadhra.
Apologies: Martin Kelly
Pat opened with an observation that he was finding the presence of a long
list of email messages on the list proving a daunting task to deal with every
day. However, it was agreed that the delete key was the best way to deal with
unwanted messages. The list welcomes every email that anyone wants to send to
it and this openness is a priority for the list.
Poor Dominique is contemplating a wonderful visit to Geneva, Switzerland but
without the company of her ever-loved guide dog. This moved the conversation
to travel and the demand for a photo id in relation to passports and, also,
to access to restaurants during the Covid crisis. Pat pointed out that there
is no official identity card in Ireland, unlike other countries. So, the
photo used in the Irish passport is the only official record. It was noted
that restaurants providing indoor dining will accept the Covid Health Card as
ID.
The quality of various artificial voices came up. The recent arrival of a
male voice to replace Alexa and similar changes for Siri drew a number of
opinions and comments.
Ken tried to get speech going on an Apple Watch without success. Then he
updated the app, reset the iPhone and the watch worked brilliantly! The
latest IOS release, version 14.7, specifically targets improvements for the
apple watch and perhaps this was the reason for the success of Ken's effort.
Michael is struggling with his new washing machine but found it difficult to
download the remote app and see if that would work with his new machine.
However, despite the good humoured welcoming of covid distancing, he hopes to
download the app sometime and have a go at using the machine himself.
Pat protested that he doesn't like the App Library on the iPhone. He prefers
to keep his large array of apps in organised folders on the first few pages
where he can more easily find them.
Jackie has bought the Aeropex After Shokz bone-conducting headset and used it
to explore the Soundscapes navigation app from Microsoft on her iPhone. She
compared it with blind square. Soundscapes echoed features on the left and on
the right very well and with very close accuracy. However, it failed to name
certain streets simply calling them "Residential streets". Blind square was
able to name each of the same streets. When Jackie looked for "O'Hare's
bakery", Soundscapes offered her O'Hare airport in the United states! Des
also tried to find features in Sligo and, like Jackie, his first search drew
places in the United states. However, when he added the word "Sligo" to the
search, Soundscapes went straight to the location that he had been looking
for. Paul suggested trying the air code as a means of locating a chosen
place. This would mean searching on the internet for an unfamiliar air code.
Jackie found the stereo feature very helpful. A sports ground on the right
came only into the earpiece on the right. "Steps on the left" appeared in the
Lefthand ear only. Des remembered a reference to a headset that would follow
the movement of the head and announce features in relation to the orientation
of the head rather than the orientation of the iPhone. This would be worth
further investigation.
Cearbhall got the response "Not available in your country or region". Perhaps
it has only been temporarily withdrawn.
Summing up, Jackie gave the thumbs up to blind square, supported
enthusiastically by Mary, and a cool response to Soundscapes.
Paul wondered if Audible involves two-factor authentication to complete a
purchase. Mary finds that it does not do so in her case. Jackie noted that
the authentication is sought by BOI on every purchase with a One-time code
(OTC). Mary is using AIB with facial recognition to complete her purchases
and so the authentication is not evident.
In the case of the OTC, various copying methods were mentioned including
"copy code" from within the email or text sent by the bank. The steps
include:
1. Go into the message;
2. tap on the number once with one finger;
3. Then go back to the Audible app and turn the rotor to "paste" to insert
the number.
Pat suggested using the three-finger, quadruple tap shortcut to copy the code
from the message.
Martha reported that Audible now offers a range of free books. Jackie found
that some of the titles from her Wishlist were available and free.
Stuart finds that he is never able to log in to book share using Easy Reader.
There was not much experience of this product at the meeting but Lena Kouzi
in NCBI is the acknowledged authority on this topic and might have an answer
for him.
Cearbhall mentioned that he had found the Change case feature of Microsoft
Office to be very easy to use and a great way to overcome the problem of
fixing whole sentences accidentally typed in upper case when they should have
been in lower case. Using the shift+F3 toggles between initial capitals, All
capitals and Lower case. Simply highlighting the full text and pressing the
shortcut once or twice creates the desired result.
There seems to be a shortcut in apple but it is not easy to find and he will
report to the list later if it turns up.
Pat had been playing with the Power Share app from the ESB to report outages
and maintenance in the local area. He found that it is only accessible when
using the "list" mode rather than "map".
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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