Excellent notes as always Cearbhall. I’ll give the 3G a try for a few days and
see how it goes.
Thanks
Regards Chris
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On 12 Sep 2020, at 17:53, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
In attendance: (9 participants)
Dominique Farrell Derry Walsh, Chris Egan, Kenneth Walsh, Martha Parkinson,
Noreen Meagher
Gavin Allman Paul Griffith, Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Ken is the proud owner of a new iPhone 11 pro with 256 g of memory. It has no
home key and he found that he was unknowingly taking screen shots by
accidentally pressing both the power button and the volume button. He bought
it from Laptops Direct at about $100 cheaper than from Apple.
Ken found that he is committed to two-factor authentication on all his Apple
devices by having exceeded the time limit of two weeks some time ago. He
thanked Jackie (in her absence) for drawing his attention to this limit last
week. Members tried to explore this feature but found it difficult without
the guiding personality of the missing Jackie. It is clear that, as Ken said,
Jackie is the best expert on two-factor authentication. Bravely, Chris led
the meeting through a means of handling the authentication in Settings under
Apple Id and working down to "Security and Settings".
Dominique was applauded for contacting Apple to turn off two factor
notification.
Derry followed up on last week's undertaking to check with the cork library
about BorrowBox. He found out that BorrowBox is not unique to each county but
is licenced centrally and available throughout the Irish library service. A
number of copies of each book is available under that licence.
Derry also asked about the availability of our usual meeting room at Cork
Library. He learned that the room is not available for use at the moment.
Ken and Chris debated the possibility of 3g 4g or LTE. Ken felt that Chris
would have a more stable service if he kept his iPhone to 3G rather than 4G.
Ken has been using LTE on the iPhone up to now. Martha is using 4G on her
iPhone in the depths of Kerry. If anyone wants to learn what all these terms
mean, try this link:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/4g-vs-lte/ ;
I found it very informative.
Cearbhall reported that he had experimented with Clew to see how it reported
stairs. He found it very accurately giving directions when to turn left or
right. In coming downstairs, he tried the route over two flights of a dog-leg
stairs. The Clew failed to report the upper set of four steps but accurately
instructed to "turn right and go downstairs" at the top of the main flight.
Also Clew failed to mention a single step at a doorway. Chris wondered if
Clew would warn of an obstruction placed in the way of a previously clear
route. Cearbhall undertook to check this and found that Clew has no clue
about such changes and simply guided him straight into the obstruction and
maintained its direction flow over and beyond the obstructing object.
Martha had a fright while trying to find her way through an unfamiliar part
of Tralee. She tried using Lazarillo to sort out her orientation. However,
she found that the app was not precise enough. Familiar buildings were
identified but not exactly in a meaningful direction that was consistent
enough to extricate herself. A friendly passing nun eventually rescued her.
Could her confusion have been metaphysical?
The meeting offered various possible precautions that a person might take to
prepare for such eventualities. Building a set of way-points that fix the
outer corners of a block of streets marking familiar shops and banks, for
example. might help an app to guide a person out of the difficulty.
The meeting ended
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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