Thanks Tony. Glad you enjoyed them.
Regards
Stuart
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On 25 Apr 2022, at 17:03, Tony Sweeney <tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Wishing Cearbhall a very happy noteable birthday and holiday.
It might be of worth to mention that if visiting the vatican a headset
can be borrowed whereby one can hear the vatican guide's tour
comfortably but you'd need to ask them for it though.
We loved Rome when we visited and would go back no bother but those
cobbles well not good!
Nice notes Stuart, both informative and amusing too if I may say.
Tony
On 25/04/2022 16:38, Stuart Haxell (stuhax) wrote:
Dublin Technology club Notes 25thApril 2022.sh
Good evening, everyone who might glance at these notes briefly before
deleting them I hope they give you a decent idea of what happened this
morning in the Dublin technology club.
11 participants joined us today.
Todays tech club started off in fine form with participants having problems
with their audio including the note taker today. Vera wished Cearbhall
happy birthday and discussion commenced on his upcoming
trip to the lovely city of Rome. More people wished Cearbhall happy
birthday, eventually the audio issues were sorted out.
Martin made a wrong guess on Cearbhall’s age. Cearbhall asked how many steps
were in the Spanish steps, various answers were given from thirty-two to a
lot more. They are apparently very shallow. We all listened to Cearbhall
doing the attendance for a while with his very fast JAWS. We were wondering
where everyone was by eleven, some thought they were on easter holidays.
Annette brought up an issue with google home where it kept asking to connect
to her Wi-Fi. She was told by family members to unplug and re plug it in
again. This fixed the issue. Vera said this was called a reboot. She
explained that it was similar to what she does to her television when it has
problems.
Annette brought the sad news of a woman dying from swimming over the
weekend. She was out when she heardthe helicopter flying over to rescue her.
The area where it happened is very dangerous.
Martin brought up an RTE issue he said that it was unavailable in the
mornings on his Alexa, vera said she had the same issue on her google home.
Albert also agreed with them saying that it was a problem. Albert asked
about Cearbhalls upcoming trip to Rome. Albert said that he had a lot of
problems navigating because of the cobble stones. He also said that there
was a lot of maps done in brail. He mentioned various sites he visited on
his last trip to Rome including the pantheon and the colosseum. He has no
interest in going back to Rome in the future again.
Vera said that the first thing she noticed on her last trip to Rome was that
all the people were on their mobile phones in the nineties. Her tour guide
was very passionate about the city. Martin said that the Dublin tour guides
are just as passionate. He then asked for a full report on Cearbhall’s trip
next week.
Martin suggested using soundscape while their whilst Albert suggested
utilising Blind square on Cearbhall’s trip to Rome. Albert says that he only
used his phone at night and not during the day while in Rome the last time
he visited. Vera said that a significant number of the Italians who lived in
Rome were standing at counters in cafés in Rome and if you sat down, you
were charged double price.
Michael had a problem with Microsoft word apparently the print has gone
small for his wife. If you go into the font settings, they are still size
eleven. Cearbhall suggested opening screen settings in word and checking the
screen size there. Michael says that he thought it was something to do with
pictures in word. Martin agreed with Cearbhall that he should check the
screen settings. Albert suggested zoom settings. Michael said he’ll check
the zoom settings, Cearbhall suggested checking display settings as an
alternative in word under view. Albert said that you need to be careful when
you adjust settings in Microsoft word as there are hundreds of them.
Martin brought up Alexa because he has recently tried the options to access
the higher-level features and now, he can’t back out of it. He wants to get
back to basic functions. He asked if there was a help line, Albert said he
would have a look in the echo group. Tom tried to bring up something before
being interrupted by martin saying, “up Mayo!!!!!”” Tom then confirmed that
there was an Alexa help line. He said try entering the help option on Alexa
to find it. Martin and Tom bantered about mayo for a while.
Albert brought the tv guide app up that was discussed on Saturday in the
cork tech club he said the app has still not been fixed. Stuart brought up
that they test beta versions of apps on the app Test flight.
Tom brought up blindsquare and mobile apps he said that he walked and that
blindsquare did not work for him. He mentioned that another app can link
with blindsquare apparently the app he was thinking about only works in
America currently according to Albert. Discussion of blind square commenced
for a while. Blind square did not work for a few people recently including
Cearbhall and Tom. Albert says that it doesn’t do turn by turn unless you
link it with google maps, comparisons to soundscape were made. Cearbhall
mentioned that he used move it another app in the countryside. he was
provided with the names of a number of villages he had never heard about
before. Tom asked how to link google and blind square together, Albert told
him how to do it. He mentioned that voice over, google maps and blind square
all vied for your attention when this is done. Cearbhall enquired about a
tutorial for blind square, Albert mentioned that a German woman did one
before and that she had good Engli
he wasn’t sure if it was a podcast.c
Tom said that he was at home at the moment. Albert explained to Vera about
the various gps apps that many of the blind use for navigation including
blind square and soundscape. The clue app was briefly discussed today. Tom
asked about the Waterford v limerick match and if anyone had watched it. A
number of people had. the notetaker had not.
JAWS joined us for a period of time and gave a brief news highlight of some
very interesting news stories. The note taker recalls something involving a
million euros. Tom mentioned scribe for books. Apparently if you read a book
on it you have to close the app to get back to the place you were in the
book. John said that android is going well for him at the moment. Cearbhall
asked Michael if blind square worked with android, he was not sure. Blind
square does not help him because of his location in a rural area. Cearbhall
said that move it was a better alternative for rural locations and can be
connected to google maps. Discussion continued on blind square for a while
after this point as well as four square the app blind square is built upon.
John asked how good google maps is for walking around. Various different
opinions were given. Cearbhall said he didn’t find blind square worked for
him in his local area because of the number of shops. Michael said that some
of the shops blindsquare mentions in his area don’t exist. Martin had a
conversation with the post man while this discussion was going on. Albert
doesn’t think blindsquare is available for android.
Bob looked and could not find it in the android app store. he does not use
navigation apps himself. He said he would only occasionally check the steps
to get to a location if he was in Dublin. Michael said that using the
eircode was the best way of finding places. In England eircodes cover
multiple locations while in Ireland they cover one property according to
Michael. Discussion of the eircodes commenced for a while.
Tom said that the app he got books from was spelt scribd not scribe. It
requires monthly subscription. Cearbhall enquired as to where the app
acquired its books such as audible or Belinda. Carol asked about the recent
borrow box problem, multiple people were caught with the problem and were
required to contact their local library to fix the problem. Cearbhall said
he recently downloaded the book Nora, Annette said she did the same, Tom
brought up James Joyce. Cearbhall said he couldn’t finish the book as it did
not hold his interest. John asked about what borrow box was, Cearbhall gave
him an explanation.
Annette said she wanted to reserve a book on borrow box and did not know
how. Cearbhall said that you could not reserve them. Tom said that you were
only allowed a certain number of books at a time between three and five
books. Tom asked if anyone had used overdrive, Cearbhall said he found it
awful. Tom said he used bookshare and found it good. Cearbhall said he used
to use bookshare because they used to brail books. Tom brought up how
college students find bookshare to be very good. Albert asked Tom about his
personal use of bookshare.
Tom mentioned that he found apps such as invision, seeing AI etc to be very
good. Albert said that invision provided frequent updates similar to OrCam.
Bob asked what speakers people were using. Tom uses a sound bar and a
samson. He has the soundbar blue toothed to Alexa. Michael said his friend
uses sonar speakers. Michael mentioned a few different versions of speakers
he uses himself. John highlighted a number of ways in which newer speakers
are a lot more powerful than the older ones. Tom said the old speakers give
of a better sound “more authentic”.
Martin was shopping yesterday and discovered Bluetooth speakers that were
quite expensive and was wondering about the quality of them, he did not
purchase them. Discussion on Bluetooth continued for a short while and how
the speakers could connect to alexa. Cearbhall says that he uses a lightning
connector to connect some of his devices. Discussion got very technical.
Martin said he was impressed with the quality of the sound that comes out of
his alexa. Cearbhall asked if tom played the organ, he said he played a
mouth organ. Tom said that he was told that he is the only guy that can sing
a song in sixteen different keys. Martin asked Tom to put his name in the
kettle for some reason.
Albert has got an apple watch and is trying to get used of it. He is
impressed with how fast it charges. His watch matches Lady W’s. they both
are massive Disney fans.
Tom asked if he is using his headphones and moves around the house and
leaves his phone somewhere else would the quality of phone calls decrease,
he was told yes. It was suggested that the turn of his wi-fi to improve
this. Annette suggested doing a whats app call instead. Estimates for the
distance Bluetooth devices can go before they disconnect were made from
twenty feet down to fifteen feet depending on the device were hypothesised.
Annette finds that what’s app calls are very hard to hear if she is not
using Wi-Fi to receive calls. Albert asked how she used what’s app she said
that she uses headphones and without headphones. She has taken calls in
multiple locations and has noticed a stark difference. What’s app apparently
works very badly over mobile data. Annette asked how to tell if she was
using data or Wi-Fi. Vera said that she should check her settings to see
what she is using. Vera said that data will engage automatically if Wi-Fi is
poor. Cearbhall said that Wi-Fi
an be affected by the number of people using it at the same time.===========================================================
John mentioned that he had problems with Wi-fi when he was with a different
company. Mini mouse interrupted to give us the time at twelve thirty-two.
Albert wished Cearbhall happy birthday. Cearbhall asked albert if he was
wearing “slippered pantaloons””
The meeting broke up at this point. The note taker hopes that those on the
FB exchange list found these notes to be beneficial.
Regards
The Notetaker.
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