Good morning listers, just one comment on cable phone service. I have it and love it. My cable company's "phone" box has a ten hour battery which continues to provide service in the event of power failure. Last year I can say it survived 6 hours. thanks rick
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 07:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack This is true. But young people have become quite spoiled. When I was young many people didn't even have private home phone service, and many others only had one telephone in the home. I was taught to allow the phone to ring at least ten times before hanging up because that would be a minute. It would give the person answering the phone a chance to get to the phone. There were no answering machines as we know them today. Doctors and such had answering services. Now, if the person doesn't answer after 4 or 5 rings the call is automatically forwarded to voice mail. Whether or not the person being called is at home at all or not. If you are going to pay 66 dollars a month for cellular service with tax. Because in this day of marauders wondering the streets we blind people need cellular service. and say 20 dollars for internet service anyway. Why pay more? Can you beat the cost of 20 dollars annuli for a service which gives so much for it's cost? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Justice" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Hi Gerald, Exactly, and both of these services do do display a statement about this on their websites. VOIP services are an alternative to what used to be, expensive long-distance plans, but certainly not a total replacement for land-line service. Even the digital phone service offered by most cable companies, is nothing more than VOIP. When the power is out, it is out, and I would hate to think that my only means of communications is through the cable, the computer, or a celphone whose battery will not last forever. Standard phone service in this country has been around longer than most of us have been alive, and even though we don't always agree with the pricing, it's reliability, has been time-tested. I do use Skype, in addition to my phone service, and it does have very good sound quality, now if I could only remember which computer it is on. smile. Rick Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Thanks for that warning, Rick. A lot of blind folks think Skyte and Magic Jack are the greatest things since sliced bread until they experience a power outage and are left without any means of calling 911 in the event of an emergency. Any blind person living alone should think twice about ditching their land line phone in favor of one of these less reliable VOIP services. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Justice" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Just remember... Magic Jack and Skype are VOIP services, and, During a power failure, neither will work as a landline will. Your internet connection must be alive for these services to work at all. HTH, Rick Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack I don't have a land line, and will never have a land line again. I use Magic Jack exclusively. I pay 20 dollars annually for Magic Jack, and 20 dollars monthly for broad band DSL service. I love Magic Jack. For it's cost one can't beat the value. though there will be those who will disagree surely. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Oliver" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack hello mark i have an internet calls provider they are called Vonage and it costs me £7.99 a month for this i get unlimited talk time in the UK with no need to hang up within an hour and redial. i also get 33 hours worth of talk time to 35 European countries a month and no bill statements as it is all taken care of online. i get an email once a month to tell me the transaction was successfully carried out and that the amount for the month left my card. here in the UK we have features like call waiting, 1471, anonymous call rejection voice mail and a few other that i cant think of right now. BT charge each month for these but with Vonage they come as standard with no charge to use them the only thing i would pay for is the diversion part if i have my calls diverted to another number. Yvonne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Hi I bought Magic Jack and have mixed results. Most of the time it works great. However, occasionally there is a delay between what one says and what the other person hears. Then if one is having a long conversation such as I do with my girlfriend, it will eventually take a syllable that she says and keep repeating it to me. On her end there is a clicking noise and it hangs up on her. All though this is annoying I have had relatively good success with the magic jack. God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, 24°F(-4°C) Wind:Calm< ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Templet" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:35 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Hi; Does anyone use Magic Jack with Jaws as their phone service? If so how well does it work? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf of David Griffith Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] How to Move to new scanning program I am completely unfamiliar with these programs but if I was in your position I would look for an option to "display scanner driver" or display scanner properties" in this program's settings. If this succeeds then the scanner driver will appear before the scanning takes place and you can ensure that duplex is set before the scan results are sent back to your OCR program. I cannot guarantee that this will work but it works with other OCR programs like Microsoft document Scanning to deliver duplex scanning. You could try Microsoft Document scanning anyway with your scanner as the OCR is excellent. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:04 To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] How to Move to new scanning program Hi I am having troubles getting my vista home addition to switch to new scanning/OCR software. I was using read iris 11 and decided to upgrade to read iris 12. Some how in the process the computer decided that I only want to use the OCR software in single sided scans. I have a scanner that scans both sides of the paper at a time. I can do a double sided scan using the software that came with the scanner but the OCR is terrible. So, I decided to switch to Text Cloner Pro. The problem is that it is only scanning one side of the page at a time also. It gives me a message saying that it cannot find a particular read iris file. I removed read Iris and so I wonder why it is looking for this file? How do I get Text cloner pro to figure out that it can scan in double sided mode? I appreciate any ideas. God bless, Mark -- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon Overcast, 24°F(-4°C) Wind:Calm If at first you don't succeed, blame your computer. 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