Dublin Technology club Notes 9th January 2022
Good morning and happy new year. This morning we had the first Dublin
technology club meeting of 2023. So sit back and relax and enjoy the notes of
the meeting.
6 participants today
Apologies received from Paul who could not attend
The pre meeting started of with a number of eager participants signing in early
to the meeting and having a number of random discussions. Some of them included
facial hair and the benefits of having a beard and how many walks people would
do a day with their dogs. These discussions commenced for a while at the
beginning of the meeting. The topic of how much it takes to look after a dog
was discussed.
Martin asked if it was a good idea to put an RF tag on a dog and if it would
effect the dog in any way. The group concluded it wouldnt. The group wondered
if it worked by bluetooth. Mary asked if a Navi LENS tag would work, stuart
suggested an apple air tag.The group started talking about Christmas at this
point and Martin regaled the group with his culinary experience of the recent
Christmas period. Martin told us that a turkey leg cost 8 euro when he last
checked in his butchers recently. The fighting blindness choir was discussed
and the competition that they are currently taking part in, they are performing
this Saturday in the Helix in the semi finals.
According to Martin something called CES is currently taking place in los
vegas, it is a big technology convention that takes place every January. Tom
mentioned that Clare Burn was discussing a chat bot this morning. The group
discussed the benefits of them and what they can be used for. One of the topics
discussed around them was the possibility that they could be used to write
future. Fiction books.
Cearbhall mentioned that he was fiddling with borrow box over the weekend. He
was surprised that it had voices that could be used to read e-books like voice
dream reader. Tom said he liked the voice that his orcam uses for reading.
Cearbhall said he had 3 voices going through borrow box at once at one point.
Tom asked if anyone had connected Alexa to headphones. Stuart said he found it
difficult to do. Initially. The group discussed this for a while. Cearbhall
asked if tom had downloaded the app to his phone, he had. BBC according to tom
will be discontinuing their service on the smart speaker later in the year.
This was a surprise to a number of members of the group. They also discussed
what radio stations they regularly use on there Alexas.
Cearbhall brought up simple radio and that all RTE stations do not play on the
app anymore. The RTE radio app is very good according to Cearbhall. The group
then moved to talking about audio description for a while. Some members were
not sure of the benefits of audio description.Stuart and tom are big fans of
it.. the group then started talking about different television providers and
which ones members of the group were with which one. Some are with sky and some
others are with virgin. Audio description was a big topic discussed today. Some
of the group gave there first experiences with audio description.
Cearbhall asked if anyone had any problems with iOS 16.2. no one had any
problems to report. Zoom apparently has also gained a number of new features on
the mobile version including the ability for multiple people to contribute to
text. Martin asked if you could dictate emogies. He was told yes he could. Tom
also brought up the recent e-mail from Jackie that mentioned that you can ask
Siri to restart your phone. The group discussed it for a while and the benefits
of it.
Mary asked what note pad is. Cearbhall said it is similar to notes on the
iPhone. If you copy something from word into note pad it will remove all
formatting, Cearbhall uses it with excel as well when he has problems with
formulas. To find it open windows and type note pad to find it.
Cearbhall brought up cutting and pasting on an iPhone, he recently had to put
in a password in Alexa, he copied and pasted one from whats app and found it
really good.
Tom asked a question about losing the home screen on zoom. Cearbhall said to do
a backwards z on an iPhone with two fingers to return to a previous screen.
This one needs a bit of practice to get working correctly.
Stuart said he uses the accessibility shortcut on the iPhone to temporarily
turn off voice over and tap the top of the screen in zoom if he gets stuck in a
window that wont close.
To activate the shortcut open settings, accessibility,, then scroll down to
accessibility shortcut near the bottom. Scroll down until you find voice over.
Double tap it if it says selected youve done it. Make sure nothing else is
selected otherwise it will bring up a menu instead of automatically turning
voiceover on or off. To use the shortcut triple click your home button or side
button if you dont have a home button.
Cearbhall asked if anyone was having problems with sound scape recently after
Microsoft stopped supporting the service. It has been awful for him recently.
Martin said he had no issues with it, he said he will give it another test when
he is in Dublin next week..
The meeting ended at this point with the group deciding to go off for some
lunch. Happy new year to every one and good luck to Mary and the choir this
weekend.
Regards
Stuart
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