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Starkey Hearing Foundation in Africa
Last night was the final episode of Celebrity Apprentice, in which Marlee Matlin faced off against John Rich to win the game. Rich was playing for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which treats children with cancer, and Matlin was playing for the Starkey Hearing Foundation which provides hearing aids to children in the United States … Continue reading
Hearing Aids and Phone
My old hearing aids were awesome. They knew when I got a phone call, and switched over to phone mode automatically. If I wanted to initiate a call, I only had to tap one button to switch things over. The microphone unit was small and easy to clip on. Those days are no longer, of … Continue reading
IP Relay Used for Death Threat
The latest issue of SIGNews has the following story: IP Relay Relayed a Death Threat Call against 13-Year-OldA local television channel in Boston, Mass., reported on April 25 that a death threat was made through an IP relay provider to a thirteen year old girl. Lisa Butler, the mother of Angela, said to Channel 5 … Continue reading
VHS to DVD Conversion
As I’ve talked about before, I have a lot of VHS tapes I want to transfer to DVD. Today we went to a bunch of yard sales, and one of my finds was a dual-deck VHS/DVD unit. It had a button that said “copy” and a post-it saying they hadn’t tested the record function because … Continue reading
New Blackberry Models
When I saw on BBCool that the Blackberry 8820 is about to be released, I got slightly worried. The article reported that the phone will combine GPS and wifi in one unit, which as far as I can tell is a first for Blackberry devices. If this phone had a camera, I would have been … Continue reading
Protected: Expensive Aids
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SDHC in Dell Inspiron 1501
I figured out my problem with the 4GB SD card I had bought. It wasn’t Dell’s fault that it didn’t work; I chatted with a representative and confirmed the slot is supposed to accept SDHC cards. It turned out to be a Microsoft XP problem, naturally. It fell under KB 934428, in which XP requires … Continue reading
Y halo thar
If you haven’t seen me online much today, it’s because I’ve been playing with the new phone. In fact I am using it to write this. It is still hard so I will be brief. As of right this minute, I don’t like it. But I must give it time. It’s hard though because there … Continue reading
Dashing
For those of you who missed it in the paid post, I’ve got a new phone on the way. I bought a T-Mobile Dash on eBay. I’ve been underwhelmed by my Sidekick for a while, and the Helio Ocean doesn’t have certain capabilities I need, so I looked around and decided on the Dash. I … Continue reading
Finally All Fixed Up
Okay! I think I have resolved my computer problems and my classes. I wasn’t able to do much online the past couple of nights, because the whole SP2 mess really hosed things up. At one point my monitor decided to make itself “vertical” and I had to crane my head sideways to read anything! I … Continue reading