When I first started to read your mail, I thought "What a great idea!" I
have the problem on my laptop, that the sound card often gets muted, this
due to the fact that there is a Touch-strip right above the keyboard, that
holds volume keys. If you accidentially happen to move your fingers cross
this Touch-strip, you are left with the volume turned down. So, your script
could have been helpful - I'd expect - in such a situation. Only...
Then I read further on in your message, and three points made me jump a bit
in the chair. First, why would your script EVER maximize the volume? Unmute,
yes that is great, but maximize? In many cases I am working my computer with
a headset. My master volume is set to something like 40%, and the rest of
the volume bar is set to everything between 20% and 50%. maximizing the
volume - that is put it to 100% - simply would blow my ears. And, then, I
would have all the hazzle of entering the volume control, and start to
manually set the volume sliders back to their normal position - If I get
your text right. Hmmm, Helpful little tool? If the script really would be
helpful, you should let it remember a setting that it would apply for
reinstituting sound. And maybe even have two hotkeys, one that would reset
to speaker level, and one that would reset to headphone level; and both
these settings should somehow be user-definable.
Second, you are jumping into the scripting 'market', and allready in your
advertisement telling that maybe the script will not work. Honesty, yes by
all means, but then how about Beta testing the software before throwing it
into the market. And this leads us to the third point:
OK, you want to make money on this. Noone, I think, will blame you on
wanting money for your pizza. Yet, asking ten dollars for a simple task,
that you don't know whether will work for the user, and if it does, will
blow his ears... Well, I'm not sure, if this will ever work. Particularly,
so, since we already have had several feedbacks here on other products that
either are free, or offer a more tested and stronger functionality. Go
ahead, ask money for your software, but make it work, give the user the
chance of deciding what volume should be restored, and make it all available
for a price the market will accept. Since you offer no demo, or testing
version of your great, little, script, of course noone here can tell
anything about it. Still, I am assured, your software piece is a great one,
and does its job - when it works - but I think you might want to consider
the above three points.
Put yourself in the shoes of most users. Few of us, are that much geeks,
that we want to pay the one ten-dollar bill after the other, for every
little 'funny' piece of software out there. Most of us, want to know, that
if we pay, this will be of a given amount of benefit. Loosing speech on your
system... Hmmm, yes, it is frustrating, and we might want to ask, why GW has
not implemented some kind of routine to get speech back. Then again, many
times, loosing speech is due to WE hanging, ain't it? Whatever way we turn
it, even with my drawback of the Touch-strip on my laptop, I have a feeling
it is not worth ten dollars. And specially so, if the benefit of it all, is
that my ears will be blown every time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Belle" <[email protected]>
To: "Kevin Barry" <[email protected]>; "Chip Orange"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:24 AM
Subject: script for un-muting your sound card
Hey folks?
I'm just popping in here to let you know a very useful little script will
available for sale from us here at Affordable Studio Services.
Some of my friends inform me that one of the things that annoy them the
most is that sometimes the soundcard will get muted accidentally.
If your blind, this can be a huge annoyance.
Well, this little script unmutes your master and wave mute and maxes out
your master and wav volumes on your primary sound card.
We can not guarantee that this script will work on every machine under
every circumstance.
We are testing on more machines as I write this, but for those who
would like something like this,
it's 10 dollars and you can contact me privately if interested.
Thank you very much.
Chris Belle
email is
[email protected]
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