Well done, Paul! Great account of all that happened.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Hello folks, thanks to Adrian/Stuart/Marti, who compiled notes while I was
lying low with covert.
Winter has come in with a bang,
Were past Halloween and heading towards Christmas.
Hoping I will not have to suffer Christmas songs or jingles until December.
There were 9 Participants for today's Dublin Tech meeting.
While talking about Zoom meetings, Adrian wanted to know if anybody has tried
to log onto a Zoom meeting using their Ecco show device.
Mary tried this in real time without success. It seems according to
Stuart/Adrian that one must ask Alexa to send a link to your smart phone to
get this started.
Rather like setting up BBC SOUND.
Adrian and Mary have offered to try and access Zoom doing this with the link
that Alexa will send to their phones, and report back to our next meeting.
We all welcomed Tom back to our Monday meetings after his recent illness.
Tom wanted to know if he could use or change Alexa's voice while using his
Kindle machine.
Tom changed his Alexa voice but when he started his book on Kindle, it
reverted to the usual Kindle voice.
Cearbhall checked this out, and it seems that this is not possible at the
moment.
Marti who was gifted a brand new Ipad, wanted some information on
transferring her smart phone information from her phone to her new Ipad.
Stuart said that she should log on using her Iphone password, and everything
should be available.
She also has some nice Ear Buds, and wants to know how to use them.
Presumably they are digital and she should go to settings, Blue tooth, and
she will find them in her discoverable devices. The name and make of the Ear
buds will be called out and you click here to connect them.
She also got advice on how to increase her gig memory.
Most people use that offer of 99 cents per month for an extra 50 Gigabytes of
memory.
Mary complained about the fact that Alexa was reading to her a book that she
read about a year ago, and not the book that she is currently reading.
Joe said that she should check this out on her Amazone Alexa on her phone.
She should ask Alexa to read her current book, giving the name of the book
and the author.
Mary will do this and report back to the meeting.
Mary wondered how she can get the ingrediants for some house desserts she was
looking at on Utube.
Stuart and Adrian said that she should find the title of the Utube video she
is watching and when she sees the name , she should double click here and
arrow right until she sees the list of ingrediants for this recipe if not
she should click more, to find this
There was a big discussion on the survey undertaken by people in Cork to find
out how vision impaired persons get on with their chemist of choice.
It seems that one of the most annoying things to people with no sight or
very little, is that many pharmacies cover the braille that is on the
medicine box with perhaps a price ticket.
Mary and Cearbhall suggested to Paul that he should request a blister packet
for his medicines. Then his medicine would be ready for a day by day dosage
and this is great for keeping an eye to see that one takes the right amount
on the right day.
It seems that this is a very worthwhile survey and could result in some good
improvements with contact with your local pharmacy.
Joe has a problem with his Alexa device, when increasing the volume of
sound there is a 25 second delay before this happens. This happens when
listening to the radio. Paul wondered if this only happened when listening to
the radio, and Joe will check this out.
The meeting concluded by wishing Stuart good luck for his forthcoming Blind
Tennistournanent being held
In Wrexham.
Go for it Stuart.
That's all folks
Paul
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