Apologies (yet again) for not getting the Notes written up for the last couple of meetings. Fortunately there was not too much to record 🙂
Apologies for the 12th were received from David Hughes, Don, Jeanne & Micky, Sianed, Tony, Sheila, Jonathan and Mary. We welcomed Dave and Nita.
Apologies for the 26th were received from Jenny, Renee, Sianed, Jeff, Yvonne, Jonathan, Kate and Margaret.
I went through the procedure to update Member Records on the Cardiff u3a Membership Portal – I can’t change email addresses, or very few other personal details. I described the tools that the group uses – this website, the forums, the Signal group and Flipboard magazine. I also showed the Group page on the main Cardiff u3a website where calendar/meeting information is shown, and where occasionally you will find a blogpost from the group.
I explained that I would not be able to lead the meeting on the 23rd November but was delighted that Phil (supported by Sianed) would lead the session. Phil will give a presentation on his recent trip to Bletchley Park and I have suggested that Sianed leads a discussion on “Computers I have known and loved (or hated); or both!”
I also announced that the session on the 26th would be on “Digital Music” and invited members to come prepared with contributions on apps, hardware and services they used and their experience of using them.
Member issues/news:
Phil told us all about Cyberclean – yellow gloop – that was really good to clean keyboards – this was a follow-up to the maintenance session held previously.
Anne had a cursor problem with the mouse freezing. Unfortunately we were not able to provide any definitive reason why this might be. Could be a driver problem; an interupted Windows update … who knows. Anyway the problem seems to have gone away.
Stella had a new phone and we discussed how you transfer the old SIM to the new phone to keep your old phone number and how to get a PAC to enable you to move from one provider to another.
Phil was very keen on an app called Zotto which enable you to make Notes.
Ralph raised the problematic issue of the analogue to digital phone changeover and Paul commented on how long it had taken for BT to resolve this issue for him.
Dave asked a question about secure email and I confirmed that I felt Proton was a very secure service (I think that was what the issue was!!). He also advised us that he’d be seeing us again in the spring upon his return from the US. In the Digital Music session he told us about his use of an app called Clipgrab to get pieces of music from the internet, but that he was now using VLC Media Player.