Michael Excellent notes. Well done Joan
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 19:16, <paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael, wonderful notes, sounds like a good meeting,
Well done
Cheers
Paul
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Attendees: Tom Langan, Joe Murphy, Cearbhall Oââ¬â¢Meara, Albert Brown,
Noreen Meagher, Mary Lavelle, Martin Kelly, Gerry Eastwood, Eamonn
Oââ¬â¢Connor, Bob Carazza, Annette McCarthy, Joan Kearns, Michael Lavin,
Martha Parkenson, Declan Meenagh.
Apologies Paul Griffith and Michael Brown.
Tom Langan reported that bookshare has a problem with the search function
Declan suggested using the ISBN of the book being searched for. Books are
available in a number of formats. Eamonn asked if you can search by
category and Declan said that using dreamweaver there is a limited category
search facility.
Discussion took place on portable mp3 players with speech including
Flextalk, book port, m-power iAudio5. RockBox is a speech software solution
for older off-the shelf devices to enable speech on them.
Bert reported problems with ios14 - advised to hold off downloading. Some
updates are only effective with iphone10 and above. Mary L downloaded ios14
but found the numberpad does not display when a call comes in. She found
improved performance with this update. Siri dictation is also more
accurate. This version includes a new feature called backtap where you can
get the phone to do various things like bringing up the home button by
tapping the back of the phone. Another new feature is achieved by doing a
long tap ââ¬â tap once and then hold down your finger. This will allow
you
to get back to the Back button at the top level of a dialogue box for
example instead of having to step back through all the levels. Mary asked
if Siri can be changed to differentiate between the words choir and quire.
Bert didnââ¬â¢t think so but suggested trying a few different Siri voices
to
see if this made any difference. Bert said that Apple can sometimes force a
new update which you mightnââ¬Ã¢
�¢t want at thi s moment in time. In Settings you can turn automatic
updates off so as to get around this.
Bert recommended the iPhone SE20 as being good value for money having the
IPhone 11 processor installed. Joan bought a new replacement battery
(possibly not an apple one) but it is still not holding the charge though
it is displaying 100% charged. She has to recharge a number of times a day.
The meeting felt that the battery might npot be an Apple-approved one.
Compu B is now gone so try iConnect instead for any Apple issues available
in Henry Street, Liffey Valley or Newbridge.
A discussion took place on spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music. amazon
music costs ââ¬3.99 per month for 1 speaker, or ââ¬9 for multiple
speakers.
Apple music costs ââ¬10 per month. There is no charge for youtube videos.
martha asked about hive or nest -the two smart thermostats that are hard
wired into your central heating boiler. Bert uses nest with google home and
he can turn on or off the boiler remotely with his phone. Visually impaired
people in the UK are usingHhive talking thermostat. Joe will circulate an
article on this from NCBI. Michael said he uses the Speechmaster from
Cobalt and finds it very easy tocontrol the central heating.
A discussion took place on the smart doorbell which can be answered
through a smart phone app. Declan cautioned against disreputable sellers of
a system like this - your doorbell has a camera which is always on line so
there would be security issues involved; suggested that before you purchase
this you ensure that the company is reputable.
Noreen said that one of the first devices she got following losing her
sight was the Colour Identifier from Cobalt. Michael said he had one also
and it could identify if your lights were on or not. Bert said that there
was an app called boop which tells you if your lights are on or off
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