Thanks very much Cearbhall,
Regards
Paul
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Thanks, Paul, You tell a great story as ever!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Subject: [fb-exchange] exchange club meeting 21/08/2023
Hello Folks,
First of all, it is with great sadness that the meeting learned of the
untimely death of Mary , wife of Chris Egan one of our Cork members of the
Saturday exchange club.
May I on behalf of all members of the Monday Dublin meeting offer our sincere
condolences to Chris and his family.
May she rest in peace.
There were 11 Participants for today’s meeting.
We were joined by a new member, Adrian, and he is very welcome to the Dublin
Tech Club.
Adrian is an Android user which is good news to Ger , Bob,and Declan who are
all Android users.
Mary reported that she got entangled in a large over grown rose bush. On her
walk this morning. She went into the house of the owner and complained politely
about his over hanging bush, the man was very apologetic and asked if she was
ok, and promised to trim the offending rose bush. Well done Mary.
Adrian reported that he used to use Talk Back on his phone, but now mostly uses
Dictation to do his text messages on his smart Android phone.
He also uses what he calls Dark mode, that is using the contrast by changing
the background to Black colour and have White colour on the black, he finds
the contrast suits his needs.
Ger says that if one highlights text on their Android phone then that text
will be read out for them.
Vera gave a great description on the differences between Zoom and Magnifier
on the iPhone.
This was in answer to a question from Eamonn.
Zoom is a built in option which one can find in accessibility settings.
While Magnifier is an app which went turned on will magnify everything on the
screen, rather like a hand held magnifier.
Mary asked why she got no instructions from her favourite walking app, Blind
Square. As regards being told to turn right or left . Albert said that the
app does not give instructions about directions but just calls out what road
your walking down, or the number of the house that you are passing at that
time. In order to get the instructions that she wants , she needs to click on
the Google map, and then Google will take over and give her information on when
to turn left or right.
Blind Square has three options, the first one is the trekking option, the
second one is the Plan a journey option, and the third one is called
assimilation. This last option gives information on whats around you and points
of interest in the place that your visiting.
Blind Square cost around 30€, and it feeds off the regular Four Square app.
Blind Square uses Google maps, while Soundscape uses open source maps.
Cearbhall reported that Soundscape will be renamed Soundscape community when it
launches around October this year.
PS. Congratulations to Keith Earls winning his 100 th cap for Ireland , and
scoring a memorable try as well.
That’s all Folks
Paul
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