Hi Pat,
thanks for the excellent minutes.
The MS Office alternative app is called LibreOffice. Here is the link of
the official page and what exactly is LibreOffice:
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/
As per that page, LibreOffice is a successor of OpenOffice.
"LibreOffice is the successor to OpenOffice.org, commonly known as
OpenOffice, which had its last major update in 2014."
Download page:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
Cheers,
-Adrian
On 2023-09-04 14:02, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Folks, On a warm and sunny day in Dublin south west . We are===========================================================
getting
a mini Irish heatwave around 23-26degrees and it's very welcome.
There were 13 Participants for today's Tech meeting.
There were 3 eager beavers assembled at the doors around 10.45 this
morning,
met by a cheerful Stuart who started to let in the masses.
First of all , there was a great discussion on all things mobility.
Voice
vista was a favourite of Alberts, as it gives information on turn by
turn
walking, unlike Paul's favourite Soundscape Community.
Other apps to get a mention include Lazarillo, and Adrian suggested
the WE
WALK app, which is a subscription app.
Paul says that he can still use the original soundscape app, which is
now
finished and does not get anymore updates. Eamonn says that this will
probably stop when Paul updates to the forthcoming ios 17.
Mary is very excited with her newly created shortcut for Siri.
She says Siri turn on short text , and if she has a package which she
can't
read, Siri, will read all the text on the package if held in front of
the
camera.
She can also create shortcuts for example for identifying paper money ,
or
colours, though the colours skill is rather problematic.
Search engines, were talked about including one that Eamonn mentioned,
ie
www.startpage.com <http://www.startpage.com> .
Eamonn and Bert find this engine very good.
There was discussions on OPEN OFFICE, Office 365, and one that yours
truly
never heard of before called Libre.com.
The last one is one that Adrian told us about, it's great to have
Adrian at
these meetings, as he has a different slant on all things IT.
During the meeting, Ger received a call purporting to come from the
Revolut
people, suggesting that some money had been taken out of his account.
Ger is
a wiley customer and after he heard press 1 if this is not you taking
out
the money, he promptly hung up.
.
This is of course another scam, so beware everyone.
VPN network was talked about, this is something that I know little
about,
but Bert wanted to know if one installs VPN, does this slow down your
Ipod.
?, Adrian says yes it will slow down your speed a little
Bert reminded all of two great websites, www.ninite <http://www.ninite>
.com, which will find all things accessible that you may want to use in
one
place.
Like NVDA, and so on. Also 7Zip, a great place to handle your unzipped
files.
That's all folks, sorry if I left out anything as was minding two
grand
children for most of the time as well, who says only women can multi
task!!
PS. Wishing the Irish rugby union team every good luck for the
forthcoming
world cup starting in France this Friday.
Regards
Paul
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