Stuart
A great report of everything.
All The Best,
Ken
On 28 May 2022, at 19:51, Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
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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