Stuart, I was not able to attend last Saturday, but your notes made this not
a problem,
As I know what was discussed.
Thanks for the great notes.
Paul
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Cork technology Notes 28th May 2022
Introduction
Good morning, everyone on this fine may morning. I will be your note taker this
week so like the last few times I have done this get a drink find a comfortable
chair and set aside at least two hours of your time for some reading.
11 Participants today.
Topics discussed
Introduction
Before the meeting started.
Iphone issues
Blind tennis
NCBI smart hub and free Alexa’s
Sticky Keys
power reserve mode
Creating a group e-mail leads to trauma.
iOS 16
Football
Miscellaneous
GUIDE DOGS.
Soundscape
Iphone compass
Headphones
Ending notes
Before the meeting started.
The meeting started off with four eager people charging the door to get in
before 11. They briefly discussed the collection for guide dog day. Jackie also
gave us a run down on how she was doing today. Plans were also made to discuss
the NCBI smart hub during the meeting. Jackie asked Cearbhall to conduct some
research for her. Viruses like monkey pox and corona virus were also briefly
mentioned in this opening period. A small discussion of the weather and older
viruses such as smallpox occurred. Jackie mentioned how her guide dog was doing
last night. People trickled in as it came closer to 11. Apparently, you are not
meant to arrive to the tech club until 5 minutes before the tech club is meant
to start according to the invitation according to one participant. According to
Pat the guards are after Jackie in limerick for unspecified reasons.
TOPIC One: IPHONE Issues
PAT HAD A QUESTION HE WANTED TO RAISE TO THE GROUP. HE GOT A THIRD GENERATION
SE IPHONE. HE HAD TRANSFERRED HIS DATA FROM HIS PREVIOUS PHONE ALRIGHT WITH
KNOW ISSUES FROM HIS PREVIOUS PHONE HOWEVER WHEN HE SWITCHED OF HIS NEW PHONE,
HE WAS UNABLE TO LOG IN AGAIN AS VOICE OVER WAS TURNED OF. HE GOT VOICE OVER ON
HOWEVER HIS PASSWORD TURNED OUT TO BE INCORRECT AS THE CHARACTERS HE ENTERED
WERE INCORRECT. HE SAID USE THREE FINGERS DOUBLE TAP TO TURN OF VOICE OVER WHEN
IT BECOMES MUTED. THIS IS AN ISSUE HE HAS FACED BEFORE WHEN VOICE OVER TURNS
OF. HE HAS ACCIDENTLY PUT TWELVE CHARACTERS IN WITHOUT REALISING IT. KEN ASKED
IF HE HAD HAD A PHONE CALL BEFORE HE TURNED OF THE PHONE. CEARBHALL ASKED IF
ALL SETTINGS WERE TRANSFERRED ASWELL TO THE NEW PHONE. KEN AGREED THAT THE
TRANSFER IS VERY EASY TO DO. A NUMBER OF OTHERS AGREED. THE NOTE TAKER WILL
AGREE WITH THIS AS WHEN THEY BOUGHT THEIR IPHONE 11 BEFORE THEY WERE ABLE TO
TRANSFER FROM THEIR ORIGINAL IPHONE SE VERY QUICKLY. HE CONTACTED A PPLE TO
TRY AND RESOLVE HIS ISSUE THEY ONLY GOT BACK TO HIM YESTERDAY. KEN SUGGESTED
GIVING THE PHONE A FEW MINUTES AFTER STARTING IT UP BEFORE PUTTING IN THE
PASSWORD. APPLE GAVE HIM A NUMBER OF SUGGESTIONS TO TRY INCLUDING CHANGING HIS
VOICE OVER VOICE TO AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH OF ALL THINGS. THE MEETING PARTICIPANTS
FOUND THIS TO BE QUITE STRANGE. HE ALSO GOT HIS FAMILY MEMBERS TO LOOK AT HIS
SCREEN TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING VISUALLY ON HIS SCREEN. HIS ICONS WERE MOVING
LIKE HE WAS IN AN EDIT FIELD. JACKIE SAID THAT THIS WAS A BUG THAT APPEARED IN
THE APPLE WATCH AT ONE POINT BEFORE. CHRIS ASKED WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU
CONTINUOUSLY GET THE PIN NUMBER WRONG. PAT CLARIFIED THAT YOU COULD SET IT TO
LOCK YOU OUT AFTER A NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS. IT ALSO WILL WIPE YOUR PHONE. TO
CHANGE THIS SETTING GO TO PASSWORDS IN SETTINGS. THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR DATA
BACK IS TO REDOWNLOAD IT FROM THE CLOUD. DISCUSSION OF PASSWORDS COMMENCED. A
FEW PARTICIPANTS MENTIONED THAT THEIR PHONES CAN ACCIDELNTLY GO ON
MUTE IN THEIR POCKETS IF THEIR NOT CAREFUL. PEOPLE DISCUSSED THE MUTE TOPIC
FOR A FEW MINUTES.
Topic 2: tennis
People talked to stuart about his time in Mayfest last weekend during the last
tech club. Stuart said he would have rathered been present at the tech club
then playing blind tennis. Hears a copy of a facebook post he put up regarding
his time their over the weekend for anyone interested in extra reading.
https://www.facebook.com/100000739916123/posts/5530996790268263/?dÿ
Topic 3: NCBI smart hub and free Alexa’s
Several people asked about the free echo’s NCBI were giving out to promote
their smart hub. Stuart got his to sing a song. Pat asked how to enable the
NCBI smart hub Jackie told the group how she did it. This is what she said:
1. Opened the Alexa app.
2. go into more and skills and games and search for the NCBI skill.
3. go to sign up.
4 enter your email address, password and phone number. (when entering a
password you need to put in a number) she also added a symbol.
5 You then should receive an email to confirm your email. click on the confirm
email.
6 Go back into the email you received and double tap on continue with
complete registration.and follow the instructions.
7 then finally confirm the email you'll receive from NCBI.
There is also an option to go onto the NCBI website and sign up for an My NCBI
account and then log into the skill.
Stuart explained how to set up an Alexa from his experience setting it up last
week. Jackie mentioned a what’s up group called fangs and fur. Discussion of
the skill commenced for a period and what use people will get out of it. A few
people had difficulty setting up the NCBI smart hub. Ken said that you should
use the Alexa email you initially used to register with the NCBI smart hub.
Cearbhall read out the official NCBI method to set up the smart hub from an
attachment he received. The confusion appears when you attempt to link your
Alexa account with your NCBI account. To create an account, go onto the NCBI
website and select smart hub. Cearbhall said the account is only confirmed if
they manually confirm it in NCBI. Budweiser and Guinness were discussed here
for some reason. One of the participants said they were involved with the beta
test of the NCBI smart hub and found it significantly easier to sign up during
that period as opposed to now. Dominique asked about the benefit of the skill,
the call back option was considered the best feature. If you have any issues
e-mail NCBI Labs.
Topic 4: Sticky Keys
Jackie had a question. She had an issue where an extra key would appear to be
pressed when she attempted a keyboard shortcut. For example, alt f4 becomes
control alt f4 even though she did not hit control. She consulted several
people to try fixing this issue. It was determined that sticky keys were the
issue that Jackie was dealing with. Sticky keys are for people who cannot reach
all these keys at once to do keyboard shortcuts. Several people attempted to
figure out how sticky keys are turned on. Martha asked if they’re like filter
keys. Stuart suggested the shift key for ten seconds or in combination with
another key may engage them. Jackie mentioned another time when she met someone
else who turned them on before she was not sure how they did that.
Topic 5: power reserve mode
Dominique asked if anyone had turned on power reserve on their apple watch. No
one had. According to her this is a mode of preserving the battery. It
disengages everything except the clock. It was compared to low power mode on an
iphone. Pat discussed airplane mode and what you can have turned on with it for
example wi fi, Bluetooth and mobile data. You cannot smoke on an airplane still
though. Dominique does not see any advantage to turning on the mode on her
apple watch as voice over eats through her battery anyway. A few people
suggested contacting apple to perhaps improve this feature in some way.
Dominique reckons that apple will bring low power mode to future apple watches
Topic 6: Creating a group e-mail leads to trauma.
Ken wanted to create a group e-mail on his phone. He watched a video he found
very good, he had difficulty following the steps. He was required to do this in
the mail app. He had lost several numbers from his contacts after trying to
create his group. They are still on his iPad. He had more issues with this. He
tried several different things to try and fix this issue. He ended up with A
multiple of the same contact he was unable to delete these multiple contacts as
he kept getting the message this contact was already deleted. He attempted to
delete multiple contacts in what’s app and other apps without any success. He
eventually was able to fix his issue very early in the morning. Discussion of
how to create a group e-mail occurred for a short period. Jackie said she would
want to try creating one out of curiosity. Ken was quite traumatised after
trying to fix this problem. Cearbhall asked if ken had auto fill engaged on his
phone. Pat said how to create a group e-mail. Brief discu ssion of iOS 15.5
started up.
Topic 7 iOS 16
Dominique brought up the newest update and what features will be coming in the
future for IOS 16 Ken praised the iphone 13 as a family member recently bought
one. Discussion of the find the door feature that is coming in IOS 16. This
feature uses lidar to detect objects in your area. It is only present on iphone
12 pro and up. Many people used it for detecting if they were two metres apart
during covid. The I phone 13 pro phone is 1171 euro. You wouldn’t want to
drop that one down the toilet by accident. Jackie mentioned her iPod she did
not get the colour she wanted during the summer she wanted pink.
Topic 8: football.
Brief talk of football between a number of participants.
Topic 9: Miscellaneous
Discussion of how the bank of Ireland app crashed because of excited fans who
wanted to see a concert. They were quite outraged for some unfathomable reason.
RDS stands for Royal Dublin Society. Cearbhall gave us a reason why it was
called that.
Topic 10: GUIDE DOGS.
Dominique told us about her time collecting for guide dogs yesterday. A few
other participants on the call had also collected for guide dogs yesterday. A
number of pictures are present on the Irish guide dog Facebook page if anyone
is interested in seeing some happy dogs and volunteers out having a great time.
Dominiques guide dog worked fantastically bringing her home yesterday. She was
able to rely on her guide dog to get her home this was a huge confidence boost
for her. She wanted to prove to guide dogs that she is independent and that she
wanted to work her dog to the best of her ability.
Topic 11: soundscape.
Cearbhall brought up soundscape and how it was able to provide him with great
detail he otherwise would not have been aware of. It is helping him keep on
track and manage corners easier. A few participants said that it is improving.
Cearbhall uses his hearing aids to use soundscape. They provide him with the
sounds around him at the same time. Dominique said she doesn’t like using air
pods out because she is afraid, they will be stolen, she asked if hearing aids
were more discrete. Cearbhall described how they look. He said the only part
visible is the wire the rest are subtle. Alcohol came up again for some reason
here something to do with orientation. Martin said soundscape was fantastic on
the train, Dominique talked about how she was brought to the bus by a fantastic
Dublin bus worker because it had changed because of an accident. The audio
didn’t work because of this. Alcohol occurred again here.
Topic 12: compass
Pat asked about using the compass he said it was causing him issues.
Topic 13: headphones.
Jackie discussed a new product she started using to not lose her headphones.
Pat said he lost his headphones this way as he dropped them before. Jackie
described it as similar to a piece of string to hold the headphones around her
neck. This topic was discussed for a while with several different participants
giving their opinions of the fear of losing headphones.
Ending notes.
The meeting broke up around this point with all participants going of for a
lunch after a meeting were a significant range of topics were discussed in
great detail. The note taker hopes that the readers found this format useful
for engaging with the notes. The note taker felt like experimenting this week.
Regards.
The Notetaker.
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