Fantastic notes thanks Paul
Regards
Stuart
On 4 Mar 2024, at 15:51, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Folks, It’s Chilly today, a very cold wind, but good weather is
forecast from Thursday on.
Good luck for Ireland in their game of Rugby against England next Saturday.
,
There were 14 Participants for today’s Dublin Tech Club.
First of all, I must mention, that our very own Stuart, composed a novel way
of sending birthday greetings to two of our members.
This was done during last Saturday’s Cork Tech club.
Using Chat GPT, Stuart,, organised a musical ditty and added backing tracks
to the AI lyrics, and it was clever and brilliant.
Well done Stuart.
Paudi told us of his visit to the Europa Hotel in Belfast last Wednesday for
a trade show hosted by the RNIB in England.
He went by himself, and had no trouble in getting there and using the train.
He told us of a new appliance to help the blind and vision impaired to
enable them to cast their vote by themselves.
It is a piece of cardboard with holes cut off, and a place for a Jack to be
inserted to enable sound.
He was allowed to try it for himself, and found it quite good.
There is a place to insert your vote, with up to 20 holes for PR voting. The
paper lies underneath with the candidates names on the paper, which are read
out to the VIP , voter.
Another company that impressed Paudi, was a company who have developed their
own version of the Talk back facility available on all Android phones.
One can buy a Samsung Android phone with their version of an audible
assistant.
This would cost around 300 £
He networked with a number of like minded people from the North, and his
experience of the fair was very positive.
As a matter of interest, one can get a train from Portadown station to the
Titanic quarter, to go to the Titanic exhibition.
When booking the Titanic show, if one says that their visually impaired,
they can avail of the Buddy Buddy scheme. Where a partenar will be supplied
from the North’s pool of guides to help and aid you for the tour.
Well done Paudi.
Martin said that there is a Blind Tennis tournament in Naas tennis club on
March 23rd, all our welcome.
Albert wanted to know how to clear his old phone calls. When he goes to these
calls, it calls out his name and number, so Stuart told him to click his
number/name, and this will get rid of this, by arrowing right to the select
button, when this is done he should go to the top to the clear all calls
button.
Martin told us of an app he has downloaded called WAY OUT, and he is going
to try it out next time he is in his local station, and he will report back
to the meeting.
Bert meantime is trying out an app called Good maps, and he will also report
back.
Bert said that the app MOOVIT, is brilliant, You enter your address, and the
app tells you your nearest bus stop.
What time for the next bus. Bert was going out with his wife to a
restaurant in Newcastle, and the app told him he needed the 68 bus, and that
it was 22 stops away for the restaurant.
Another great feature is that the app MOOVIT, will tell you 2 stops before
your journeys end that you should get ready for disembarking in 2 stops.
Tom finds that sometimes the page or site he is looking at, suddenly moves,
and he finds it hard to get back to where he was before.
Cearbhall says that this happens to him sometimes while using Zoom.
Cearbhall uses a three finger movement to scroll back to the previous and
the same gesture to go to the right to the next page. left
Albert told us that he knows that Itunes, will be discontinued shortly.
There was a good discussion between two radio buff, namely Eamonn and Bert.
Bert said that there is a new app called Virtual Recorder, and he found it
very good.
Eamonn said that the Zoom H6E was his preference when recording something of
note.
Bert said that there is a good podcast on onrecording, by a guy called David
Whitfield.
Both Eamonn and Bert also love using Gold Wave, where one can edit a
recording after recording something for instance from a radio show.
That’s all Folks
Paul
