
Welcome to another instalment of Lady Whistledown's papers on the goings on
in the Cork TechClub. The following ladies and gentlemen were in attendance.
Des Keaney, Ken Walsh, Derry Walsh, Chris Egan, Martha Parkinson, Noreen
Meagher, Jackie McBrearty, Dominique Farrell, Martin Kelly, Cearbhall
O'Meadhra, Gavin Allman, Paudie Cotterell, Clare Cassidy.
We had sorries from Pat Walsh and Sean Kavanagh.
Des kicked us off asking about Logitech keyboards and how good they are. Our
Logitech expert told him all about the one he has However, due to being
baffled about magnets this writer lost the plot with the description. Jackie an
accident prone person told Des she rather gets the cheap and cheerful keyboards
on Amazon as generally her keyboards get abused by getting bashed off walls,
flung off beds and stood on. Microsoft and apple keyboards were also mentioned
as viable options. Curries and Harvey Norman in Sligo were suggested as
possible places to buy them.
footnote. Des if your going here could you pick me up a McDonalds.
Des was also asking about organising his newsfeed so he'd see certain groups
and people IE Jackie first when he opens facebook. Chris checked it out and
told him to look for the button that says organise newsfeed or some words like
that. This should enable him organise his newsfeed.
Ken: reported on an issue that Sean K told us about last week. Sean was
missing calls from numbers that were not in his contacts, Sean tried what was
suggested and poor Siri was yelled at for an extended period of time. Sean
made contact with Ken, then Ken rang Jackie and they sorted Sean out. The issue
was silence unknown callers was on and its now off and all is well in Seans
ship again.
Gavin, registered with the overdrive NCBI Library and he was using the
EasyReader app, he was asking about bookshare so Cearbhall was telling him
about the differences about bookshare and overdrive and the different services
both platforms offer.
Now people grab a tea or coffee as this is a long one with a happy ending. On
Thursday night Cearbhall discovered all his audio books were gone. This would
make this writer cry. but after talking to Ken and they troubleshooted a few
different options with no resolve. Cearbhall then contacted audible support,
using their chat function. This was problematic as there appears to be a small
window of 3min in which you need to respond before they close the chat window,
once Cearbhall told them he was using a screen reader they had more patience.
To shorten the story Cearbhall had two audible accounts one with a user name
and one with an email but he wasn't seeing on the app any option to sign in
using his username. technical support was had and Cearbhall got all his books
back this ordeal lasted until 2am.
Jackie and her signal group of fangs and fur reported back on the test they
said they'd do on the signal app. This came about from Martha telling us about
an unsuccessful group call in which using voiceover there was no menu buttons
and therefore no way to end the call. Fangs and Fur also reported the same
issues and two of our members with a teeny bit of sight reported with voiceover
on the buttons disappeared and with voiceover off they were visible. During the
call wifi signals also dropped and Jackie remained in the status bar throughout
the call. Two Fangs and Fur members Jackie and Ken reported their findings to
signal. in the writing of these notes signal haven't made any contact with Ken
nor Jackie.
Ken was asking does anyone elses audible sign them out. Jackie and Chris along
with other members reported this does not happen to them and that Ken's phone
was weird and possibly possessed.
Martin was telling us about a course he was doing on editing. Martin is an
actor in the sightless cinema, they tried an app called bandcast whichh is in
early days of development and reports were sent back into bandcast.
Martin was also asked about his blind shell phone, he told us he is still very
happy with this phone.
Clare started a conversation about zoom and teams. Clare struggled to go into a
meeting on Thursday, she was told there was another meeting in progress. Jackie
explained what happened but in the end after a phone call the problem was
sorted and the meeting started. Jackie said one of the major issues with teams
was there was no prier training given unlike zoom and the level of training
fighting blindness provided. as using it on a PC seems stable enough but when
using it on a smart phone you need an app and no one got told this in the
beginning. This group echoed that zoom was the preferred option for meetings
and various groups.
Martha, told us about her new cheep and cheerful wireless earbuds. Much like
Jackie with her keyboard Martha didn't want to invest in anything pricey that
she is destined to loose. Jackie reported she also goes cheep and cheerful on
headphones accept when she treated herself to aftershok bone conducting
headphones these headphones lasted less than six months before they were lost
and never found.The earphones Martha got are called Poms not to be mistaken for
pom poms. Des told us about earphones his wife bought him in Super Valu. Both
Martha and Des are happy while Jackie sniffled at the loss of hers.
Windows then got mentioned and Jackie was wondering what the heck happened in
the latest update, now every time she turns on her laptop its asking her to
sign in. Jackie has no log in details for this machine as it was set up for
her, legally set up for her. Cearbhall is searching for the answer to return
Jackie's computer to its old self and he shall report his findings to the list.
The meeting ended and all left very happy.
Lady Whistledown
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