Eleanor!
We were discussing the Dublin Coach service to the Airport and the new Dublin
Express Service from Terenure, with a stop in O’Connell Street.
Not sure about using the free travel card on the Dublin Express but the Dublin
Coach certainly accepts my companion card as I used it on Saturday to get to
the Tennis in Naas.
Slainte! From a very wet newbridge
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that is interesting about the Dublin car service to the airport as they would
not let me use my companion pass so I had to pay €10 for myself and another €10
for my companion.
Eleanor
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Hi Folks, from a typical March day, you know the expression,
March comes in like a Lion, and goes out like a Lamb, well I am waiting for
the Lamb March to appear and settle!!
Well done to John O’Shea in coaching the Ireland soccer team to a very
credible draw againstBelgium who are ranked 4th bbest in the World for
soccer.
There were 14 Participants for today’s Dublin Tech club.
Please note that there will be no Exchange club next week as it’s Easter Monday
a bank holiday.
We learned that Stuart was using his Focus 14 Braille keyboard from Freedom
Scientific. Stuart is attending the Vision Ireland course on uncontracted
Braille, and reports that he is doing really well, and can now understand much
of the Braille.
Well done Stuart.
Albert/Eamonn, told us of using the facility of the company Dublin Coach
service for going to the airport.
It seems that one can use their normal Bus/Luas pass on this service andit’s
good to know that this is accepted. .
Michael reported to the meeting, that EIR call centre were now answering calls
within 3 minutes.
So after some very bad press last year, somebody has bit the bullet, and now
EIR has a very quick response unit.
We all welcomed Mary back from a holiday in Australia.
Mary told us that she bought an E sim card from Vodafone before she left
Ireland.
This is an electronic sim card which allows her to make free phone calls in
Australia, , the same as she does normally in Ireland., with her regular sim
card.
The cost was approximately 18 Euros or 30 Australian Dollars. For the month.
Tis sim card is a digital one and not a hard card that most people are used
too.
While in Australia she visited a number of tourist sites, like famous prison
sites. These sites often had QR codes, so people could get a spoken commentary
on what they were looking at to get a better experience.
But Mary could not get this working, and wondered what she was doing wrong.
.
Bert said that one should go into their camera settings and locate the QR CODE,
and then turn it on.
Mary was complaining about her BLIND SQUARE APP. She wants for instance to go
to Arnot’s in Henry street,
And needs to have clear navigation information on turns and so forth.
People said that she would be better in using Google maps.
Open Google and go to directions to get to Arnot’s,
You will get a message which says go by car, public transport or walking.
When you arrive and do your business, create another search by putting in
your home address, and select for instance directions by bus, and follow the
directions given to complete your homeward journey.
Albert is disappointed that his Human wear product, cannot be linked to his
smart phone.
Contacting Apple, they told him that Humanwear would not install the necessary
drivers on their products to enable it to run on the Apple devices.
They refused to update the Humanwear product.
That’s all Folks,
Have a great Easter and go easy on those tempting Easter eggs.
Remember no meeting on Easter Monday.
Paul
