Thanks Jackie
Enjoy the tea
Regards
Stuart
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On 25 Apr 2022, at 18:43, Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Paul, tried to do my best with them
Regards
Stuart
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On 25 Apr 2022, at 17:58, Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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