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- Sat Jan 14, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Migrating Tracfone plan to Verizon network?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2285
Migrating Tracfone plan to Verizon network?
Anyone has a Tracfone plan originally on a non-Verizon network and has migrated to Verizon? I've had a cheap Tracfone plan for several years using AT&T network, the plan is officially 60 minutes/60 texts/60MB data every 90 days, for about $20 total with auto payment, but at one point earlier on I bought a 90-day plan card that had "Triple everything" (it might have been Tracfone's old "Triple Minutes for Life") so it has been 180 min/180 text/180MB every 90 days, and anything unused gets rolled over to the future. Most of the time I don't need much, but would on occasion use say 0.5GB of data in one hour, so the roll-over feature works well. Since the acquisition of Tracfone by Verizon I've been getting periodic prom...
- Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:04 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Kindle Paperwhite vs. iPad/Similar Tablets?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 7707
Re: Kindle Paperwhite vs. iPad/Similar Tablets?
For simple undemanding reading the Paperwhite is fine, but if extensive annotation/multilingual dictionaries are involved, I much prefer the Kindle app on iPad/iPhone. Could you elaborate on this? I thought one could only do foreign dictionary lookup when the Kindle app was running on a Kindle and not when it is running on anything else? On my kindle, I just press the foreign language word with my finger and the English/foreign dictionary meaning pops up. I did have to purchase the electronic dictionary from Amazon. It is one of the reasons I read foreign language books on the Kindle. I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite and so I will either be upgrading to the Paperwhite announced today or else I could put the money into an Ipad and skip t...
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Kindle Paperwhite vs. iPad/Similar Tablets?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 7707
Re: Kindle Paperwhite vs. iPad/Similar Tablets?
I got a 7th gen Kindle Paperwhite, after years of using the iOS Kindle app on iPad/iPhone. While the Paperwhite is lightweight with a pleasing e-ink display, I find its screen much less responsive to touch than that of i-devices. For simple undemanding reading the Paperwhite is fine, but if extensive annotation/multilingual dictionaries are involved, I much prefer the Kindle app on iPad/iPhone. The last couple of e-books I bought were Apple 'books' rather than Kindle books - trying to get a sense whether Apple ebooks are better than Kindle books (in e.g. quality of photographs). By the way from my limited recent experience it seems that Apple Books prices move in tandem with Kindle books when an ebook goes on sale (I've been keeping a wish ...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:00 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tip Dental Hygienist for Teeth Cleaning? Thanks everyone.
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6968
Re: Tip Dental Hygienist for Teeth Cleaning? Thanks everyone.
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What about the judges? They are likely underpaid compared to their legal brethren in private practice. Shouldn't one tip the scales of justice in one's favor?
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Walk or taxi to bus stop to get to the airport?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4091
Re: Walk or taxi to bus stop to get to the airport?
A mile is a short distance, and it's not that hot yet at ~9am, so walking seems to me a pleasant little break to be outdoors before getting trapped in a flying petri dish (but if you don't do much walking otherwise, a mile under the July sun/humidity might be too much). If you get sweaty/smelly, that might help you gain extra social distance on the bus, and maybe even on the plane. Suggest that you skip the deodorant that morning .
- Sun May 17, 2020 10:58 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to connect washing machine drain hose to narrow standpipe
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8739
Re: How to connect washing machine drain hose to narrow standpipe
Thanks everyone, appreciate your replies, esp. those that pointed out that the standpipe is too short/narrow. Found out that apparently that's the original set-up for houses in the neighborhood built decades ago. Yes, it's time to call a plumber.
- Sun May 17, 2020 5:09 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How to connect washing machine drain hose to narrow standpipe
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8739
How to connect washing machine drain hose to narrow standpipe
Hello. A new washing machine delivery was supposed to include installation, but the delivery guys said they couldn't connect the drain hose to the standpipe because the old drain hose was connected to it. I think they are contracted by big box stores to deliver furniture, appliances etc. so their plumbing knowledge might not be a whole lot more than mine ... before calling a plumber to deal with this after the weekend, I wonder if this is something I could tackle, with the help of wisdom from the Bogleheads. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1JLNih3-eyF20gk3uiCLdMbh0ghmcWn34 In the photo above, the important items are (the terminology might not be correct): #1 The standpipe #2 "Sleeve" covering the connection betw...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Coronavirus Movie Suggestions
- Replies: 104
- Views: 8576
Re: Coronavirus Movie Suggestions
1. The Day After
2. Life After People
2. Life After People
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Virgin Mobile is now Boost Mobile
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1387
Re: Virgin Mobile is now Boost Mobile
I was a long time Virgin Mobile $20/90-day plan user and it worked out very well. It was my first cell phone, and that was a year before iPhone came out. It seemed crazy what people had to pay at the time ($60/month?) just to use a "smart phone". The service seemed to have gotten worse when VMobl USA was separated from the Virgin Group, but I was happy with my nifty little flip phone, the low price and how the unused "credit" from the $20/90-day got rolled into the future, and was planning to keep the phone/plan as long as the company kept the plan going. A few years ago I had to find a different phone carrier due to lack of Sprint cell coverage, and I ended up with a "smart phone" on a Tracfone plan that is a ...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 9:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Exercise machine for a small apartment
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4377
Re: Exercise machine for a small apartment
Would she be willing to run or walk up/down the stairs for exercise? Great cardio workout.Lynx310650 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:39 pm ... is looking for something for cardio.
We live in a small 1br apt on the 4th (top) floor
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:42 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Cosmetology School vs Traditional College
- Replies: 99
- Views: 7368
Re: Cosmetology School vs Traditional College
I once asked a highly accomplished physician what she would have liked to do if money were no object, and she said she would have liked to be a beautician/hairdresser. She is very good at pretty much everything but happens to be a homebody by nature.
Don't have a clear idea how economically viable it is for the average practitioner, but hairdressing IS a marketable skill and not easily outsourced over the internet.
Don't have a clear idea how economically viable it is for the average practitioner, but hairdressing IS a marketable skill and not easily outsourced over the internet.
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 2:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Help identifying an insect
- Replies: 4
- Views: 901
Re: Help identifying an insect
Thank you very much, livesoft!
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 2:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Help identifying an insect
- Replies: 4
- Views: 901
Help identifying an insect
Asking for help identifying this winged insect:
Thanks!
Thanks!
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 1:51 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What happens if you have an auto collision while on a road trip?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3119
Re: What happens if you have an auto collision while on a road trip?
Bookmark Car Talk's Mechanics Files https://www.cartalk.com/mechanics-files ... all-states before you leave for your road trip. The Car Talk audience is the nicest group outside of Bogleheads.
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Target gift cards 10% off tomorrow (Sunday Dec. 8)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7065
Re: Target gift cards 10% off tomorrow (Sunday Dec. 8)
Thank you 7eight9 and kacang! I bought a $100 card with $90 from PayPal (linked to Chase Freedom).
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:58 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: I really do not like using credit cards. Do any of you have a good credit score with no credit cards?
- Replies: 247
- Views: 11389
Re: Does anyone here have no credit cards? How is that working out for you? Do you have any trouble without them?
Why would banks want non-revolvers as customers? I suppose with their existing long-term non-revolving cardholders it's not worth the ill will dropping them might generate, but why would banks offer reward credit cards to persistent non-revolvers? Purely on the off chance that they could one day fall on hard times, or slip up and forget to pay a balance? It's not clear to me whether the monthly balances on my credit reports are revolving (just "paid on time") but I assume banks can easily tell from the pattern.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:48 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Are you a "solo ager?"
- Replies: 133
- Views: 22232
Re: Are you a "solo ager?"
Another good book: Katy Butler's "The Art of Dying Well". It isn't about solo aging specifically, but it discusses a number of practical ways to increase one's odds of having a better ending, and there are things one can do (or avoid doing) decades before the end. Though of course one can do all the right things and still have a bad ending. Likewise with my mother, who is still living at 102 and has suffered from dementia since her mid-late 80s. Without my sister and myself I can't imagine how she would have fared. I have no children to see me through this "tail risk" scenario, so have to figure out how to take care of myself before I can no longer take care of myself. A long-time caregiver might have a significant short...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Why do my Oral-B brush heads wear out so quickly?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3138
Re: Why do my Oral-B brush heads wear out so quickly?
Thank you all for the very helpful replies! It's most likely operator error. I got the brush heads at Rite Aid/Target/Walmart/Sam's Club, they can’t all be counterfeit (gosh I hope not). Tried the Rite Aid store brand once years ago and it didn’t fit the handle well. I suppose generic brush heads are much less likely to be counterfeit, so if one can find a well-fitting store brand and the counterfeiting of the Oral-B brand is rampant, then the store brand would actually be the safer choice.
I'll try to correct my technique and see if it makes a difference.
I'll try to correct my technique and see if it makes a difference.
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Why do my Oral-B brush heads wear out so quickly?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3138
Why do my Oral-B brush heads wear out so quickly?
I've been using Oral-B eletric toothbrush for years, most of the time using the small round brush head ("Precision Clean"). Oral-B recommends replacing the brush head every 3 months, and it always seemed that I needed to replace them much sooner than that, just from brushing twice a day, 2 minutes each time. Recently I noted down the date of replacement, and found out just how quickly I'm wearing them out: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=19XWdyG-_tBadl7FhPGUBodOjzNG_CBzP What am I doing wrong, and how can I make them last longer? I try not to press down, just have the bristles touching the teeth while brushing, but perhaps I'm still pressing too hard? I've tried other roundish Oral-B brush heads (e.g. the FlossA...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:52 pm
- Forum: Forum Issues and Administration
- Topic: Please Try Out Test Posts Here
- Replies: 445
- Views: 375734
Re: Please Try Out Test Posts Here
Test posting image, following instructions in the BH wiki and using the Calculator.png:
Hope it works.
Hope it works.
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:06 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Uber Without Smartphone
- Replies: 103
- Views: 10361
Re: Uber Without Smartphone
cheese_breath, until a few years ago I also had zero interest in getting a smartphone. Then I found out that for low-volume users a smart phone plan can be quite cheap. Tracfone, $20/90 days for 180min/180mb data/180 texts, unused data keep getting rolled into the future; customer service isn't great, but Tracfone might use multiple carriers (AT&T, Verizon, TMobile etc.) in your area and you can choose the network that has the best coverage for the places you'd use your phone at (your neighbors and the sfaff at your DW's residence can tell you which networks they use and how the coverage is for them). Now I find my small iPhone an indispensable tool, besides being a communication device, it's an ebook reader while waiting, GPS, compass,...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is Grass-fed milk worth it?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7127
Re: Is Grass milk worth it?
Wait, you don't drink tiger's milk? Assuming that you were not referring to grass-fed tigers.
I've only had cow's milk (plus human milk, in infancy) and vegan "milk". Wondering what alternative animal milk other people drink. Goat, horse, tiger, killer whale?
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:04 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Re: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
Yes, luckily my neighbors had acted exceedingly well after the incident, otherwise the situation could have been more stressful. Sorry to hear of your unless-than-lucky experience. I'm going to make an effort to be more neighborly and thoughtful day-to-day.HomeStretch wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 4:23 pm Glad to hear your damage was minimal.
You are lucky to have a very responsible neighbor (assuming in your state, like ours, a homeowner is generally responsible for any damage/removal costs of trees that fall from a neighbors property). We haven’t been so lucky!
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Re: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
This is an important point, thank you for mentioning it. I understand it now but yesterday in the middle of things I was pretty muddled.Doom&Gloom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:38 am I should have mentioned upthread that one helpful thing I learned in a very similar situation several years ago was that if the insurance company sent an adjuster out that a claim would be initiated whether they found significant damage or not. YMMV depending upon location and insurance company.
Thanks all for chiming in. Yes, this could be considered a dry run - should something worse happens in the future I'll be better prepared.
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Re: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
Thank you, Yooper16, quantAndHold, Summit111. Nice to hear of other people's experience (and of positive experience with insurance company/agent). Yes, it's a smallish tree as trees go but the house is quite small so the toppled tree looked quite impressive actually. Thanks livesoft, Doom&Gloom. I did make a follow-up call to the insurance agency today, saying that I looked at the area after the tree removal, saw no damage and prefer not to file a claim/have a claim on my record. They told me that they would just leave a note and the email/photo I sent yesterday in my file in case later damage is discovered, and there should be no record of a claim on my file. Guess I was paranoid about CLUE and regarded insurance as a doomsday machine ...
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:58 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Re: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
It's a bit less than a foot in diameter at the base, branches of around 4" where it met my house. About 17' high, the top 1/4 - 1/3 of it landed on the house.
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Re: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
Thanks livesoft, Swansea and Shallowpockets. The tree has just been removed, I am not seeing obvious damage. As I said in the original post, the impact wasn't violent enough for me to notice in the midst of the storm - so does it mean one can be pretty sure there's no structural damage, or could there be something akin to a subdural hematoma developing after a bump on the head?
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:09 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2029
Tree fell against house. Assess possible damage?
Neighbor's tree unrooted in storm, leaning against my house. Maybe no damage - I was in a nearby room and didn't hear or feel the impact amidst the heavy rain and wind, until I walked by the window, likely some minutes later. Neighbor is having a tree service removing the tree. I understand that any damage to the house is for me and my insurance company to deal with (and that my insurance company/insurance agent do not necessarily have my best interest in mind). If, after the tree removal, I do not see any damage or only minimal damage (below the threshold I'd want the insurance company involved), should I hire a neutral party (a public adjustor? a roofer?) to inspect the side of the house to access possible damage and advise me of the best...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: .
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3333
Re: Shower room with Window but no Exhaust Fan: Mildew Prevention
I have a humidifier in there, turn it on when showering. Very effective in keeping the room dry, and the water tank only needs to be emptied every month or two. Prior to the humidifier I used to place a twin window fan and run it as an exhaust fan, but keeping the fan in the window was letting too much outside air in in winter and summer.
- Sun May 26, 2019 12:23 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Meaning of "high/low tolerance" in precision engineering
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20040
Re: Meaning of "high/low tolerance" in precision engineering
Thank you all for your replies! This is interesting, I'm learning to look at this from several different angles.
- Sat May 25, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Meaning of "high/low tolerance" in precision engineering
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20040
Meaning of "high/low tolerance" in precision engineering
I started reading Simon Winchester's "The Perfectionists - How Precision Engineerings Created the Modern World". In the book, high tolerance is positively correlated to high precision - e.g. a slipper is a thing of low tolerance since it may have "an agreed or stated amount of allowable variation in its dimensions" of half an inch or more, while making of a space telescope requires much higher tolerance. I am no engineer and this definition of high/low tolerance grates on my ear, since I keep thinking that if tolerance is defined as the allowable deviation from a standard, then higher tolerance would mean higher allowed deviation from the standard. Looked around a bit online ... http://aspe.net/technical-publications/med...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Are independent garages cheaper than dealer?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 5739
Re: Are independent garages cheaper than dealer?
Dealerships don't necessarily have more competent mechanics. There are probably bad/dishonest independent shops along with good ones. I'd suggest finding an independent shop that has a reputation of being good and reasonably priced, then try it out first with a little job like an oil change, then gradually on to bigger jobs. Once you're completely happy with a shop, give them all the work you don't want to do yourself. A shop should be thought of as a car's primary care physician that the car is taken in for routine maintenance/upkeep, so the mechanic would know the car's history before something goes wrong. My shop has a tiny waiting room with one plastic chair, they're not good at "letting you know the cost ahead of time", but t...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What are your property taxes?
- Replies: 375
- Views: 29808
Re: What are others paying for property taxes around the US?
Good for you, Toons.
TN’s got a full-sized replica of the Parthenon, which I long to visit.
As for education, well I’ve got about 20 more years of schooling than Abe Lincoln (from KY), and I can’t even make a PowerPoint half as good as his (https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/).
Property tax: about 1.6% of house value. Lousy school system.
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: 1024.99 for a book. Why?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3843
Re: 1024.99 for a book. Why?
"Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems" (https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Nuclear ... 540484744/), multiple used and new copies, from $3,420 and up. Years ago on the New Yorker, Nicholson Baker, writing about the Kindle, mentioned the high price of the Kindle version of this book. Some amusing customer reviews of the book on Amazon, but none was from a verified purchase.
Don't leave "voice purchase" on your Alexa on w/o requiring a confirmation code!
Don't leave "voice purchase" on your Alexa on w/o requiring a confirmation code!
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:48 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Anyone using Obitalk for Google Voice?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9225
Re: Anyone using Obitalk for Google Voice?
The Simonics gateway to Google voice will be discontinued: see the 28 Jun announcement on https://simonics.com/news/. Those who have been using the old Obi 1xx devices connecting a regular phone to Google Voice through Simonics Gateway will need to upgrade to newer Obi devices (e.g. the Obi 200).
- Sun May 13, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1955
Re: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
Are you clicking on the Request Desktop Site? The voicemail I checked was on April 6. I just did a test, and it worked for me using my iPad/Safari (iOS 11.2.5, but that should matter too much). .... BTW, are you having same issue with Firefox on desktop? No, I didn't actually "Request Desktop Site" yesterday, that's why it didn't work. I was dense. So to summarize, the simple solution - many thanks to inbox788 - is this: click on the "play message" link in the email containing the voicemail as before, when it opens in a Safari window (it would be a google voice page directing one to log in or sign up), tap and hold the refresh button in the URL bar, that would call up the "Request Desktop Site" option. Click o...
- Sat May 12, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1955
Re: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
I just looked at this. It's one of those mobile vs desktop issues. If I Request Desktop Site ( https://www.imore.com/how-request-desktop-version-website-your-iphone-or-ipad ), I can still play the messages in the browser. Hmm, that does not work here. The "PLAY MESSAGE" button in the email has a link of "https://www.google.com/voice/fm/[long string of numbers]/[even longer string of numbers & characters]. If I copy the URL and open it in either safari or Chrome in iOS, the browser would jump to Google Voice's sign up/sign in page, there's no "m." prefix to get rid of. I dug out an old email containing a voicemail from two months ago, at the time the voicemail could still be played easily. It had the same type o...
- Sat May 12, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Anyone using Obitalk for Google Voice?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9225
Re: Anyone using Obitalk for Google Voice?
OP: note that the link above also mentions the $5.99 solution (one-time fee, you can keep using the Obi 100 device) through a new SIP gateway at simonics (https://simonics.com/gw/index.php). Or get there through http://nerdvittles.com/?p=12807 for some nice discussions on the topic, along with a $1 discount on the $5.99 fee.Soon2BXProgrammer wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 10:27 am upgrade to a 200 series.. they announced a while ago the 100 series was end of life, then google changed something as well..
https://forums.redflagdeals.com/google- ... s-2139232/
- Sat May 12, 2018 4:26 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1955
Re: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
Thanks to fortfun and stinkycat for the Chrome suggestion. I tried it on a desktop and a laptop, and it seemed to work - the voicemail can play directly and can be downloaded as voicemail.mp3. It doesn't seen to work on iOS devices (iPad or iPhone). On iOS, the recipient of the forwarded voicemail would just get asked to "log into/create google voice account", whether it's through Safari or Chrome.
My solution for now for forwarding voicemail is to download the voicemail.mp3 on a non-mobile device, then send the mp3 in an email so the recipient can play it directly on an iOS device. If anyone reading this in the future has a better idea, please post a reply. Thanks!
My solution for now for forwarding voicemail is to download the voicemail.mp3 on a non-mobile device, then send the mp3 in an email so the recipient can play it directly on an iOS device. If anyone reading this in the future has a better idea, please post a reply. Thanks!
- Thu May 10, 2018 4:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1955
Google Voice voicemail via email: recent changes?
Has anyone else seen a change in Google Voice voicemail message starting about 1-2 months ago? I have "get voicemail via email" in my Settings, and in the past when a voicemail came in through email, I could just hit 'play message', and a browser window (Safari on iPad/iPhone; Firefox on desktop computer) would pop up and ready to play, and when the message was for someone else (have been using Google Voice paired with an OBi device as a home phone) I could simply forward the email containing the link to the voicemail. Now when I click on the voicemail link in the email, I have to log into my Google Voice account, and forwarding the audio voicemail (not the voicemail text) becomes much harder. Is there a way to get around this new...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:56 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 961
Re: IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
By paying on 14th of April instead of 7th, I'm saving ... ~15¢ in interest
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:36 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 961
Re: IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
Thanks for the replies. I checked my efile status on the IRS site and it just said that the return has been accepted, be sure to pay before the deadline if there is any tax due, and refund info can be found at ... Alas Get Refund Status is not set up for a dual-purpose check - it requires the expected refund amount, and won't accept a negative (or zero) amount.
Wait - I found this page https://www.irs.gov/payments/pay-taxes- ... withdrawal and called the number listed. They verified that I did have the withdrawal set up for that day. So all's well.
Wait - I found this page https://www.irs.gov/payments/pay-taxes- ... withdrawal and called the number listed. They verified that I did have the withdrawal set up for that day. So all's well.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 12:05 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 961
IRS free fillable form: confirmation of scheduled withdrawal?
At the end of e-filing of fed tax using free fillable form, I picked the option of having the balance due drawn from a checking account on 14 Apr, but did not print out/screen-capture the page when it was done, assuming that the info would be included in the filing summary. It wasn't. Is there a way to find out whether the withdrawal is indeed scheduled (sort of like the counterpart of "where's my refund" function)? Waiting until the withdrawal date (or the following business day) to check my bank account might not leave enough time to correct the problem if the scheduled withdrawal wasn't set up correctly. Thanks!
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Books that have actually changed your life, in a way.
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22799
Re: Books that have actually changed your life, in a way.
Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography and Conquest of Happiness.
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series.
Richard Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast.
Oh, when I got my first car (a horrible crate), Deanna Sclar‘s Auto Repair for Dummies. I wonder if that was the very first “for dummies” book.
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series.
Richard Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast.
Oh, when I got my first car (a horrible crate), Deanna Sclar‘s Auto Repair for Dummies. I wonder if that was the very first “for dummies” book.
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What do you pay for your phone/cable/internet? REAL total with tax?
- Replies: 61
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Re: What do you pay for your phone/cable/internet? REAL total with tax?
Public, Educational & Government access. Mainly Public TV, I assume.
$50/mo all inclusive for Verizon Fios internet; Google Voice with an Obi device; $7/month Tracfone (have wi-fi nearly all the time so 180MB/90day data is sufficient). So, $57/month. Have a TV antenna and Apple TV for vegetating.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:29 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Annotating locked pdfs
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1537
Re: Annotating locked pdfs
This might work: upload the file to Google Drive, then "print", and save the print to a PDF file.Tamales wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:13 pm At a minimum, is there a way to save a pdf which currently has all properties set as 'not allowed,' to at least allow commenting (e.g. highlighting, or drawing boxes around sections, or adding notes in the margins with the typewriter function), and copying sections of text so you don't have to type them out manually or use a screen capture?
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:32 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1957
Re: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
What if you set up the Glympse sharing, then leave it running in the background while connecting to Android Auto? I have no experience with AndroidAuto/Apple CarPlay-type set up, but the Glympse on my phone seems to run/share OK in the background.
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1957
Re: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
To quickly set share time to up to 12 hours, try the set up as in this iPhone screenshot, it might work for an Android phone as well: http://imgur.com/a/baroW (I uploaded the screenshot to imgur, but the Post Preview complained that it was not possible to determine the dimension of the image. Oh well).CULater wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:53 am Only thing I've noticed so far is that it defaults to 15 minutes of sharing location and you have to tediously increase that in 15-minute intervals. I'd like to be able to more directly select the time; usually it would be about 12 hours to allow viewing location during the full day of travel.
For hours of use, the phone probably would need to be plugged into a power source.
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:17 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1957
Re: Can I track a friend's trip on my Windows computer?
Have your friend install the "glympse" app on his phone and send you a glympse invite by email, specifying a length of time the glympse is valid for (I think the maximum is 12 hours at a time). You should be able to see his location/movement on your web browser without having to do anything special on your computer.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Going to one income-seeking testimonials
- Replies: 101
- Views: 8175
Re: Going to one income-seeking testimonials
If I had an income of $100,001 I'd call it "low six figures" . Why wouldn't ~108k be called that? I'm not familiar with the terms - is it usually understood to be 200k-300k? Or are such things done in hexadecimal, so what I would have naively thought of as "low six figures" is properly understood as "low five figures"?