Fantastic notes Lady W, thank you
Regards
Stuart
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Welcome back one and all for an exciting X-rated Cork Tech Club. This is the
first Tech Club of 2023 so
Lady W will bring you through the meeting in her own unique style. We had 11
persons in attendance.
We firstly,wanted to extend our condolences on behalf of the Cork Tech Club to
Ken on the death of his Dad just before Christmas.
We started this morning with the secondary Unvisionary choir singing Happy
Birthday to Stuart. Our youngest member is in the last year of his twenties.
Jackie kicked us off with her update on her Bank of Ireland complaint. The
person who is investigating it offered to remove the Strong customer
Authentication However, this was back tracked on when it was asked for in
writing that assurances would be given that there still would be protection
on the account if fraud should happen. Jackie is still waiting for this letter
and as yet its not happening so only time will tell what the next part of
Jackie verses Bank of Ireland will be. Paul then told us about how his credit
card disappeared from his accounts on the app. When he rang the bank he was
stunned to hear other people had complained and it was an issue with the
bankHowever, later in the day the credit card returned.
Paul also spoke about updating his iPhone. Paul has the SE3. There seems to be
issues with this phone freezing and certain processes are needed to bring the
phone back to life. Dominique said she has conected her phone to the computer
and now she does a soft reset. This is done by quickly holding the volume up
button and then the volume down button and then hold the power button down for
longer than usual. This does a soft reset. We spoke of the good old days when
it was easier to do the soft reset, it used to be done by pressing and holding
the home button and power button.
The group wondered was there issues with the SE3 phones.
Jackie was all delighted on downloading NVDA without supervision. Cearbhall
sent the download link and Jackie worked away. Jackie then returned to
Cearbhall looking for add ons which was sourced once Jackie found out the
proper name of the add on she was looking for.
Time for a cuppa and snowball.
Cearbhall's wife uses a different modem for her work. This modem has some sort
of a fire wall that interferes with the dwellings own WIFI. Cearbhall followed
wires and along with a vodafone bright spark all was connected. The bright
spark could see from her end that the wifi was online. Now to shorten the story
a tad, Alexa wwas not online so he worked with his son and got the wifi
password and Alexa is back on line. As yet we are unsure of what effects
Cearbhall's technical tampering will have when his wife returns to work. So if
loud screams are heard in Bray we can be assured all has not gone well and
Cearbhall is looking for a new dwelling with his modem, computer and Alexa.
This brings us on nicely to Jackie's new reclining sofa and this will be
utilised by Chris and Cearbhall as both men come down one armed with a spanner
to look at Jackie's heating system. This air to water system is going great
part from since Jackie has lowered the temperature the indoor temperature has
increased. This is according to Alexa. Jackie was advised there could be a
fault with the thermostat. So Jackie will see about this on Monday.
Its not a cork Tech club if audible and soundscape are not discussed. Firstly,
to audible Jackie told us all about reading 11 books since January first. It
was suggested that when Chris and Cearbhall and the spanner come down there
will be no time for reading. Jackie also informed us that its in the terms and
conditions of audible that if an author removes a book from audible and its
removed from their site then it will also be removed from your library. Jackie
was told this by audible. Jackie had this issue during the week however, one
book got returned. Then audible memberships was discussed both Stuart and
Jackie goes for the yearly options of 12 and 24 credits, this works better for
these two rather than the one credit a month. Stuart also told us how apple
books are using AI to narrate their audio books. Ken pulled up a few samples,
Ken managed to get the options for both male and female in a few different
books. The jury is out as it sounded fairly good but may not work in bo
oks with multiple characters.
Now soundscape. Cearbhall uses this and because its soon to be removed from the
app store Cearbhall does not find it as accurate as it once was. Jackie had
heard from an external source that microsof didn't realise how useful blind
people found the app. Soundscape will be exiting our lives soon. We all hope
someone takes it over as its an app that is very beneficial for orientating one
self in different locations with the directional navigation when using
headphones.
Blind Square rules.
Jackie told us about a new game she downloaded called Ploppy Pairs. It's a
children's game about matching cards. I attempted to add the link but all
went weird.
We started wrapping up and a we chat was had about getting lost or falling. It
was agreed how the confidence decreases when something like that happens and
regardless when walking with cane or dog it takes a while for that confidence
to return.
The meeting ended with scrubbing.
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