Considering that most of us have been trained how to move around or in an emergency environment, this is kind of redundant. Also, isn't that what they make those emergency bracelets for?
Kliphton SR (devotional distribution email address) [email protected] (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Face Book) http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=1487626115 (Family Blog) miller9nation.wordpress.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack Any blind person who thinks they don't need a land line phoe is living in a fool's paradise. Just wait until you experience a blackout and your precious cell phone doesn't work. How are you going to contact 911 if you need help? Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Magic Jack This assumes we are too stupid to understand the restrictions of voip service. We are not. How many people spend a considerable amount on cellular service and more than they should just because they believe they absolutely need a land line. With the 911 gps supported cellular services these police stations have emergency calls can successfully be made from cellular phones. I know from experience this is possible. Further no collect calls can be received via Magic Jack. This is an advantage for those with loved ones who are incarcerated who want to call collect, and have relatives who "just can't say no". Or maybe have relatives who feel they just have to call 900 services. Magic Jack will not allow these services to be called either. ----- 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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