Glad you enjoyed the read Lady W
Regards
Stuart
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On 25 Feb 2023, at 16:11, Jackie McBrearty <teambanglesltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
excellent minutes Notetaker.
Jackie
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On 25 Feb 2023, at 3:58 p.m., Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>he
wrote:
Cork technology notes 25th February 2023
Good morning. It is me the note taker back today to bring you the minutes
of the most recent cork technology meeting. So sit back and enjoy the read
this evening.
10 participants
A number of participants were here early today and had a number of
interesting discussions. Including Santa letters and visits to the north
pole. It was quite a strange conversation. Jackie informed the group that
you are not aloud to sit on Santa’s lap anymore. A number of people also
discussed how they have banged their heads unintentionally on objects
before. Some examples included metal shutters and post boxes. This led into
a discussion surrounding the benefits of having a post box and where you can
get them. The post boxes from an post have two.slots for keys you and the
postman. They are estimated to be around 70 or 80 euro. You can also arrange
for an e-mail to be sent to you when you get mail in your box. A lot of
newer doors also do not have letter boxes anymore. Many people talked about
the rubbish they used to get through their letterboxes in the past. The
conversation briefly switched to the problems with heat being let out by
letterboxes and how to seal them up.
Pat mentioned his iPod touch and that his e-mails on it are going wrong.
For example he sends an email but it only moves to drafts after sending it.
The problem is not a wi fi issue. It is completely up to date as regards
updates. The participants were not sure what the issue may be. Ken thought
it still may be the wi fi or maybe it should be reset. Jackie suggested
throwing it against the wall, pat said he would take that one under serious
advisement.
Jackie mentioned that she is having problems with the IOS 16 feature of
e-mails having a ten second delay before they are sent, she is concerned
that they do not appear in her sent email folder. This concerns her as she
is unsure that the email has been received by the person she sent it to.
We had a new member join us today. The participants spent some time getting
to know him. Their was some discussion of using the pronunciation feature of
voice over. To find this feature open the accessibility settings and voice
over to locate it. This feature allows you to adjust how voice over on your
apple device pronounces specific words. It can be beneficial to use in the
case voice over cannot pronounce someone’s name correctly. One of the
participants had a poor signal in the meeting so this sparked a discussion
on the topic The group gave their introductions to the new member as well,
some of them were quite interesting.
Martin mentioned an issue with zoom were it said that it was updating when
he signed in today. Jackie said that this was because he was coming in on
the computer. This is a common issue on the computer so just let it update
if you have this same issue. This does not happen on the iPhone or iPad
because the updates come through the app store a longside with other apps.
Jackie said she had an issue with Waterford whispers. The issue was that
she couldn't access the story. until she utilised the forms control on the
rotor and then double tapped on the option voice over called times. This was
the exit button but it wasn't labeled correctly. Ken confirmed that he
encountered a similar issue on another website. Pat also brought up that he
could only access an e-mail using form controls, Pat asked what form
controls are on the rotor. Cearbhall did not know what it is, he guessed it
was for selecting edit boxes or all editable objects on a page. Cearbhall
gave the analogy of eggs in a tray to explain it to the group.
Ken asked the new member if he had any questions he wanted to ask to the
group. He said that he is an android user and does not use talk back on his
device. He finds talk back tedious to turn on and off when he gets fed up
with it. Jackie asked if google assistant could turn on talk back quicker,
he said no it only brings you to settings. He tried to put in a shortcut to
try making it quicker but it did not work. Screen readers and phones were
discussed for a while. Comparisons between the different phones were made.
The new member brought up select to speak on the google phones as an option,
he described it as a feature that requires you to scroll down with a finger
and it reads whats highlighted under your finger. The new member also
brought up an alternative screen reader called commentary which is available
to download on android which is apparently very good. Discussions of the
price’s of various phones were brought up, from the high prices of iPhones
to the significantly c
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Cearbhall asked how zoom works on the new members android phone. He said he
had to choose what setting he wanted to join audio with. A number of members
had this happen to them for some reason recently. No one new why this has
started to happen. Joanne suggested to check your zoom settings to see if
they were changed because of a recent update. Ken went and tried this during
the meeting. To find the setting, on an i pad or iPhone select the more tab,
the meeting settings then select auto connect select wifi to avoid this
issue happening to you.
Paul mentioned zoom shows up in his recent phone calls, he was wondering if
he is being charged for these calls. Pat said that he isn’t.
Cearbhall said he is having problems editing his e-mail address when he
signs in to zoom. He can’t determine where the cursor is in the box when he
edits it. He gets no keyboard feedback when he types. Jackie said she has
been having similar issues for quite a while when adding in her name she
gets no keyboard feedback she also said she has a similar issue on the
audible website. The group discussed this for a while. They were quite
concerned of it. A number of participants said they encountered this
predicament in a number of different places throughout the internet. Part of
the issue is that It allows you to put in characters without letting you
know what you have typed.
Cearbhall asked what is the apple keychain. Jackie explained this to
cearbhall. She said you need to turn it on in I cloud settings. It is apples
built in password manager. To add passwords manually to key chain select
password settings, you can have multiple passwords for the same website, it
gives you the date of the most recent password for a website and it lets you
know if a password is compromised of not secure.
Paul asked how to select information in an e-mail and copy and paste it to
another place. The group said to use the rotor switch to text selection,
swipe up or down to find what form you want to select i.e lines, characters,
words, pages or all. Swipe right until you have selected all you want. Then
switch the rotor to edit swipe down to copy then open whats app, messages
etc then use edit on the rotor again then select paste to place the text you
selected.
The new member explained how to select text on the android. He explained to
us but the note taker missed it unfortunately. Jackie said the android had a
rotor as well..
The group started discussing sim cards and some offers that are currently
on. Martin asked whow expensive a habel one is. Jackie told him. She also
explained in detail to the group what it is. She compared it to a sandwich.
She has not been tempted to eat it yet. It looks like a toy according to
Jackie. Martin asked about a new product called doodle. Martin explained it
was a new device for teaching children brail for maths.
Martin said eir are giving a new sim card for ten euro for twelve months.
All calls and texts. Its a rolling contract. The group disscussed it for a
while and different companies and their prices.
Martin told the group that ancient sour doe rolls are now available in Aldi.
Ken brought attention to an app that is accessible for identifying birds.
The app is called merlin. It is very accessible. The participants who tried
the merlin app were extremely impressed. It picks up the audio sound of the
bird and identify’s it that way. It can identify them even if their is a
number of them around. It will just list all It hears, it also works with
talk back. The group devolved into a bird watching club at this point for a
while. Their was debate if pigeons and owls are very different, a couple of
participants thought they were hearing owls instead of pigeons in their
areas.
Martin said he had a new app. Rebokah is an app for partially sighted
people, it is a magnifier.
The new member brought up that a plant identifying app they tried awas
completely useless as it gave in accurate information. The group then
evolved into a horticultural club. Some plants smell like likurish and
curry. Pat tried to get the note taker to spell some latin name for a plant.
The note taker wisely did not try attempting this.
Cearbhall said he recently used the rte player on the iPhone, he was
extremely impressed with his experience, the commentary on the match he
watched was fantastic. The group attempted to identify who was the
commentator on the match he watched.
Jackie updated the group on the Facebook issue she spoke about last week
regarding not being able to like things. it has been fixed apparently
without any update coming through for Facebook on the app store. The group
then discussed the recent news that Facebook wishes to charge users for a
premium subscription for some new features. they wish to charge 11 euro
apparently. Jackie does not like the adds on Facebook, she finds them to be
creepy. This topic was discussed for a while.
Martha said she updated to the most recent iOS update, the group discussed
that they had seen know issues with it, apart from pat’s e-mail issue
mentioned earlier in these notes. The group discussed phones for a while
here. One of the point’s talked through was the preference of having or not
having a home button.
Martha brought back up the RTE player and that she finds it difficult to use
on the iPad, it closes down without any warning and brings her back to the
home screen. A number of members said they had this happen to them before in
different apps. The group suggested looking for an update or deleting and
redownloading the app once more to possibly fix this. The group discussed
iPads and what are the benefits they have over iPhones, the group concluded
it is because it is a bigger surface and the visual benefits.
The meeting concluded at this point. The note taker hopes you enjoyed the
notes this week.
All the best.
Regards
The note taker.20
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