Hello List! A company just sent me a free Magic Jack device; It is a jack that you plug into the pc via usb and you can make and receive calls free for a year. The device normally sells for $29.95, but it drops to $19.95 the next years. You get all phone calls in the US and Canada for free; they say you can take the device anywhere in the world and your freign relatives can have a local US area code; and they can dial your local number via a phone hooked to the device as long as they are logged onto the net, meaning they could make free calls to the US and Canada from anywhere. Just like Skype, you can call foreign destinations for low cost credits.
the program is totally accessible from a regular phone that is hooked into the device for calling; however, it does not seem to be too accessible from the pc screen, as it is pretty graphical. It has the basic phone stuff, with a few contact and voice message features; you can switch from phone to headset, but I didn't get it to work yet. If other blind people out there uses this device, I'd like to know how to make it more accessible and, since other blind people use it, there may be some kind of scripts or programs to help it be more accessible. I'm not sure, but it seems to have Yahoo and other features and I think it shouldn't be too difficult to make it accessible on the screen like Skype and Messenger. the system does not put any files on your system; however, it puts a temporary file on your system that is there only as long as your Magic Jack is attached; once it is unplugged, the icon is gone. Supposedly, it works anywhere in the world that has high-speed internet service. I'm traveling to the Philippines soon and am anxious to see if it will actually work in one of their computer cafes. Any comments on this would be appreciated. James Robinson ga;acceiem datollrh66%copy ofn Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
