Stuart, Super notes from the note taker.
Enjoy Easter.
Cheers
Paul
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Cork technology meeting notes 8th April 2023
Good morning everyone on this easter weekend, It Is me again the note taker
here to provide you the summary of the antics that took place during this weeks
cork technology meeting. So sit back and enjoy the read.
8 participants
A number of people showed up early as usual for the meeting. They talked about
such interesting topics as the weather and politics. The group was wondering
how many would be at the meeting this week. The members who were there today
also talked about rugby for a while, some members listened to it recently on
news talk and RTE. some commentators are a lot better then others. The radio is
always ahead when it comes to sports. There was apparently news about a storm
coming on Tuesday night next week. Someone tried to play an April fools joke
telling the group it was a hurricane.
the person who developed soundscape is planning to develop a new app which is
an close relation to soundscape. This generated a fair bit of discussion. Ken
told the group about a horrible issue that happened to him during the week. He
lost a fair bit of money from his bank account. He was given no security notice
that three transactions were done. He launched a complaint with his bank he
was very annoyed that he didn’t get a notification that someone was taking out
large amounts from his bank. We really hope he is able to get his money back.
Cearbhall suggested having a separate account with small amounts of money in
the future for online shopping, ken said he is going to start using Revolute in
the future.
Cearbhall said he tried the connect clip during the week, it is a device for
his hearing aid. You give it to someone else and you are able to hear them a
lot clearer in a pub or restaurant for example. He found that it had a bug that
caused it to drop connection, it is a frequent bug according to a number of
people online. He did like it over all he is looking forward to giving it a lot
more testing in the future. To fix that bug you need to restart it.
Ger asked about the find my phone app on the android. He had the issue that he
dropped his phone and could not find it. The group was not sure how it would
work on an android. Joanne said you may have to download the find my app. and
link it to someone’s phone and track it that way. This led to a conversation
about how big some phones are to carry in pockets, the group was told they need
to get man bags to carry them.
Ken asked about the super value app, he had a voucher he wanted to use, but the
app would not open in the shop, it kept saying loading. He was wondering if
anyone had that issue. No one had had that issue. Ger asked if he had
accidentally set it to wi fi only, ken said he was not sure he would give that
a look. He finds the duns store app works fine. He tried it on mobile data
during the meeting, he had no luck. He tried checking the settings during the
meeting to check if he had mobile data turned on for the app but had no luck.
Cearbhall suggested connecting to super value’s wi fi to get into the app
possibly. It was also suggested he may have to delete and re instal it to fix
the issue.
Cearbhall brought up the recent e-mail sent to the FB list that is looking for
old canes to donate if anyone is interested to donate. The e-mail was sent this
week.
Joanne told the group she got a new echo show, she is very happy with it. They
were on special offer last week. The group asked her a number of questions
about it. Joanne told us about the feature that identifies products that you
hold up to the screen like seeing AI, it has a touch screen that uses gestures
similar to an I pad, to activate voice view on it just ask Alexa. To turn it
on. Joanne said she thinks it would be more suited to people with more sight.
Paul said he had an issue during the week, he had two vouchers he went to the
shop to use them, the voucher did not work for him. He eventually determined
that the person taking the vouchers needed to clear the terminal.
The group talked about the many times they went out with two od coloured shoes
in public as well for a while. Close pegs came up here for some reason.
Chris had an issue with audible, his book kept restarting the book he was
listening to. He was not happy. This apparently occurred when he had a phone
call. Joanne maybe suggested pausing the book on his phone instead of his
headset. The group tried to provide a number of different solutions. One of
them was maybe to ask Siri to pause the book. Paul asked Siri to turn off his
phone last night but it did not work.
Cearbhall said he could not get a new book to play on audible last night. The
group asked if it was downloaded. Ken said to control the book from the mini
player. It took him a while to get it working. The group told him how to make
sure the book was downloaded.
Joanne asked if you download a book to audible from Alexa would it appear in
your audible library in your phone. The group was fairly sure that it would.
Chris said you would still need to download it to your phone. if you purchased
it on Alexa. The group discussed-about different features of Alexa such as
amazon music and using it in different rooms etc. the group talked about their
preferred situation to listen to audio books whether it was working or doing
nothing else at the time.
Cearbhall said he had to sign into zoom this morning he is still having an
issue wherein voice over will not read what he is typing into the email or
password fields. Copying and pasting is not available as a solution, voice
over does not give him the option.
Joanne asked ken if he downloaded the clip speak update for NVDA, he had not
done it. Her computer if constantly asking her to update. She finds this to be
quite annoying as it has been happening for the last 3 weeks. Cearbhall the
NVDA expert provided her a solution to it..
There will be no meeting this Monday for anyone who did not know.
The meeting broke up at this point. I hope that everyone has a very happy
easter weekend and that you enjoyed the read.
Don’t eat to much chocolate
Regards
The notetaker.
Sent from my iPhone
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