Stuart, no problem, it was another good meeting.
Sorry about you guys in Sligo, having a power cut this morning.
Regards
Paul
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Sent: 05 September 2022 14:59
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Thanks Paul fantastic notes
Regards
Stuart
Sent from my iPhone
On 5 Sep 2022, at 14:37, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Folks, Temperatures still holding up, so no need to use that
oil or Gas yet.
There were 11 Participants via Zoom for today's exchange club.
Things got underway or they didn't, as when I logged into the Zoom,
I and many more were waiting for the host.
Cearbhall had difficulty in starting the meeting, but our tech genius
Stuart took over the controls and started the meeting, Well done Stuart.
The problems of power cuts, social welfare entitlements figured from
the start, due to the current problems of electricity costs.
Conversations ranged from entitlements , like household packages for
the visually impaired and so forth.
Pensions like council pensions and civil servant pensions were talked
about in detail. As were who is entitled to the fuel allowances.
Vera explained who is entitled to receive the household packages
which include free electricity units, free television license and so on.
Joe, had to apply for a television license . But he had difficulty
using his smart phone with the keyboard, his details would not enter
on the various fields on the website.
He could not enter his credit card details successfully, so he
engaged his Bluetooth external key board.
This worked and he could complete his application without any further
problems.
The house benefit package is means tested, and Joe did not qualify.
Paul has put in an order for that Logitech keys to go external
wireless Bluetooth keyboard.
Paul has asked Cearbhall to send him or the list , the Apple key
strokes for using this new Keys to go keyboared.
It seems that it has a charger and it has rechargeable batteries. One
can interact with the website by using arrows left and right plus up and down.
Paul is looking forward to receiving his new keyboard and using it
for internet searches etc.
Cearbhall took delivery of his very well priced keys to go keyboard
which is currently on special offer in two days.
Amazon have opened a new centre for Ireland and Europe in Baldonnell Dublin.
Albert also informed the meeting that Amazone have stopped delivery
of batteries to the Republic, not sure why this is, but now that
Dublin has it's own Amazone centre , batteries can be stored there
for delivery in Ireland.
Tom reported that with a lot of help from Albert and Lena in NCBI, he
is now up and running using Bookshare, and can listen to his E books
using Voice Dream Reader.
Also by going into his voice settings, he can choose from a number of
voices to be used on his Dream Reader.
Talking of voices, Albert is still waxing lyrically about the Alex
voice. It has 800 Megabytes, so is powerfull.
Cearbhall a man for the women likes Moira, but Jackie thinks Moira voice
is dreadful.
By the way Eloquence the voice of the Jaws screen reader will be
available to users of the iPhone as long as they install ios 16 as an update.
Jackie filled in the Monday meeting of her conversation with a gent
from Bank of Ireland accessability team.
She said that he allowed her to put her questions regarding the two
finger authentication problem in using the Bank app.
He answered all her questions to the best of his ability, so you never
know, maybe the BOI, will have a problem free app for all our vip
members in the not too distant future.
There was talk aroung Boilers, sun capture devices on the roof, and
so forth , and the future heating to combat the hike in electricity
costs which could be with us for a year or so.
Annette wanted to know if she should
. enable Roaming on her Iphone 7 prior to her departure to Malaga
(Spain)
concensus was that she should
Go to settings , then Celluar, then Roaming , and. Select on.
That's all Folks
Paul
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