Stuart! I was out of town yesterday on my Santa travels but thoroughly enjoyed
listening to your FB Missive on my return...Well done once again.
Have a great Christmas Stuart and hope that 2023 proves a very successful year
for all your Tennis adventures.
Slainte! From Me M K
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Your very welcome Cearbhall hope you have a merry Christmas
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Thanks Stuart for an excellent resumé of all that went on!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cork technology notes 17th December 2022.
Good afternoon to everyone reading these notes this fine day. today was the
last cork technology club of 2022 and it was my absolute privilege to note all
the crazy antics that happened during it this morning. So sit back put on the
fire or heating and pour some hot chocolate and settle in for a hopefully
enjoyable read of the events that took place at the final cork technology
meeting of 2022
10 of santa’s Elves attended today, the rest are presumably busy getting ready
for Christmas
Four people started the meeting with one of them coming in with the profile
name of Santa Claus. The participants started of talking about the recent
freezing weather and rugby. They also started talking about the upcoming World
Cup final between France and Argentina. Dominique also told the group that she
has started making calls from Alexa. Jackie tried to trick her by telling her
that each call cost €500, she was not amused. The rest of the pre meeting
meandered on to a number of different topics while the participants waited for
more people to show up today. Some of these topics were quite strange. Derry
told us quite an interesting story.
Martha asked Jackie what model of air fryer she had, she did not know, The
group returned to talking about the weather with some people saying that there
was thick sheets of ice in places. Jackie said she would find out the model of
air fryer and get back to her with it
Dominique told us more about how she made calls with Alexa, she finds it
absolutely fantastic it makes her life so much easier. The group started
briefly talking about books.
Pat mentioned that the old apple products have recently received a new security
update. The group started discussing updates. Any iPhone below an iPhone 8
cannot install iOS 16. To check if you need an update open general, select
software update you should discover if you need an update in there. Jackie told
the group she got her i pod engraved as saying that it is the last I pod.
Joanne asked if Jackie had tried door detection yet, she has not. It took her a
long time to find it. If you have the iPhone 14 pro you can find it in the App
Library. This is located in the last page on your Home Screen. The iPhone 14
also has a start up sound and close down sound. Other iPhones have the close
down sound only.
Paul asked if anyone had started receiving messages saying that his message had
failed. The group said it could happen, we got a surprise new member joining us
today, the group went around and introduced themselves to her giving her an
idea of where they are from. Our new member introduced herself and gave us an
idea of who she is. The group had a bit of fun comparing how the typical
speech synthesisers pronounce some irish names such as Cian, Ciaron and
Cearbhall. The group asked the new member if she used an iPhone or android, she
uses an iPhone.
Cearbhall started talking about brail and speak. The brail and speak was the
very first brail device released for a computer. He gave us the history of
different devices. Cearbhall recently came across an article discussing it. He
recently posted stuff on it to the FB list this week. Cearbhall feels that it
is an important skill that all blind people should be using to improve their
sense of touch overall. Cearbhall mentioned that orbit are discussing having
speech on their brail devices in the future, very similar to the brail and
speak. Orbit uses a different technique to create its dots. You need to be
careful touching the dots on a brail device as you might break the springs in
the device. Pat asked if a test function could be implemented to determine if
the device is fully working, Cearbhall said they already had one. Literary
brail is different to computer brail literary brail has grade 1 and 2. Grade 2
brail shortens words while grade 1 brail spells words out fully. Cearbhal
l said that his original brail and speak cost him $600. The conversation
continued§ for a while. They started talking about some device called the focus
40 the note taker knows nothing about this device.
Paul asked about soundscape being discontinued by next January. Microsoft
soundscape will know longer be available from the 3rd of January to download,
if you already have the app you will be able to continue using it until June
2023. Microsoft are releasing the code for some other group to possibly pick up
the software. The group discussed what sound scape was to members who did not
know what it is. The group discussed possible solutions to possiblely stop this
from happening, ranging from e-mailing them, letters or speaking to them
directly.
another navigation app that can be used is called lazirilo. There is also a
new app being developed in Belgium that will allow people to detect when a
traffic light changes from green to red. This excited the group as many of them
have had bad encounters with traffic lights not working or being to quiet so
they were not able to hear them. A number of stories were told here. Apparently
some traffic lights use something called a parabolic speaker. Some traffic
lights have different sounds to differentiate them from each other when they
are in close proximity to each other.
One of the members mentioned that they used a metal writing frame plus seeing
AI to write their Christmas cards this year. they were successful and posted
them out this morning, the group discussed Christmas cards for a while and how
their writing looks these days. The group reflected on how fantastic it is that
seeing AI is available for this use. A number do their Christmas cards by
printing out copies of their signature on a label and sticking them in the
cards. Another mentioned moon pig as a method of doing Christmas cards. One
member does their cards virtually online, this is done by sending them either
through e-mails, or what’s app.
The group started discussing accessible videos for a while and what needs to be
included in them to make them accessible to blind and visually impaired people.
It lasted for a few minutes, accessible formats for different things such as
letters was also discussed.
Navi LENS was talked about at multiple points throughout the meeting.
The meeting ended at this point with everyone wishing each other a merry
Christmas and a very happy new year. I also wish everyone who is reading
these notes the same. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my notes throughout the
year and have found them to be enjoyable and informative. Looking forward to
next year.
Regards
The notetaker
Stuart haxell
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