Thanks a milion
Cheers
Paul
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On 30 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Joan Kearns <kearns.joan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
Great minutes Paul. Felt like I was at the meeting. Well done. Joan
On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 15:11, <paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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In Attendance via Zoom
1 Cearbhall O’Meadhra
2 Paul Griffith
3 Jackie MacBrierty
4 Marian Murray
5 Albert Brown
6 Michael Brown
7 Eamonn O’Connor
8 Noreen Meagher
9 Martha Parkinson
10 MR. Martin Kelly
11 Mary Lavelle
12 Annette McCarthy
13 Joe Murphy
14 Tom Langan
Apologies: Joan Kearns
Cearbhall was having trouble with his microphone/headset, and is looking
into the problems.
Marian Murray, is thinking of joining us in the exchange club by
purchasing an iPhone.
She is worried that she wont be able to manage a smart phone. All assured
her that she could do this after a little learning curve. Offer of help was
forthcoming from Martin,
And she can add my name to the list of people wishing to help her with
learning the various gestures for her iPhone.
We learned more about the strange and
wonderful life of Lady Jackie,
She purchased a Amazon Fire Tablet, and has over 900 books on it!!!
She has just finished a book titled animals saved my life by the super
vet Noel Fitzpatrick.
She can order her books using Alexa after voice purchase was enabled.
Mary has ordered something to help Jamulus software to work with Jaws. Its
probably another sound card according to Albert and Cearbhall.
Martin introduced us to The Texan blind group singing a ditty about Jaws
in the Rap style, Declan found the video on U Tube, and shared the song on
screen share with us.
Well done Martin for spotting this gem.
Joe wanted to know if he could delete text and audio files from his Voice
Dream Reader.
Albert said yes, , just get the file he wants to delete and do a one
finger up swipe to the delete button. He can also create folders on the
app, and store audio files/text files there also.
Bert says that the Iccloud is very inaccessible, and this is
disappointing to voice over users.
Cearbhall is also having trouble with his iPhone 7, bert suggested he do a
reboot, by pressing the volume down button at the same time as the power
button.
This clears the cache memory.
Bert also stated that he could close the Bluetooth down and open again
later. Bert who was in fine form also said that to test the speed of your
internet connection,
Go to www.speedtest.net <http://www.speedtest.net> . The will inform
you of various things like the speed of your internet connection,
By pressing the letter B for buttons, one can find out a myriad of
information on your connection.
Michael Brown told us that the speed test app is available from the app
store.
After checking the speed of your internet, if you think that its too slow,
you can ring your service provider to check what your speed should be.
Michael also had done a lot of work for Paul and members regarding the
things that Hive can do, like putting on and off your heating,
And if you have the Hive Hub, you can also control your lights and other
household machines.
He has a friend in the North who is a vip, living alone, and he can
control most machines/devices remotely by using the Hive HUB.
This includes controlling Thermostats as well.
Martha is moving into her newly renovated house, and confirms that she
does not have Hive, but has something similar called Ember, and it looks
like it is Visually impaired friendly, but may need a few buttons labelled.
Martin asked how you get the Fire tablet to talk, Jackie
said press down the power button
three times, and the voice comes on.
The tablet cost Lady Jackie a modest 60€
Jackie also brought our attention to a great tutorial utube channel,
called bling line.
Here you will find many great ideas on how to do a multitude of things
like making your own video.
Noreen who rises at 8.30am!!
And walks aroung her house wanted to know , if there is a way to know if
the lights are on in her house.
Paul suggested the seeing ai app. She used
to have large spotlights, and she could tell if they were on by the heat
from them.
Bert has an app called Boop, which can tell her if her lights are on or
off.
Jackie wanted to know the correct name for those bulbs that are plunged
in and twisted to secure them, rather than the screw in bulbs.
It seems that they are called baynot bulbs. There was a good discussion
on TP link plugs, which can be useful for switching on and off those
Christmas lights .
Regards
Paul
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