Re: Brother laser (semi-O.T. ?)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> In doing this kind of research online, with "professional"
> reviews plus reviews from users, one generally finds Pro and
> Con comments that differ widely and contradict each other.
> (This is true for almost any product.) But issues emerge, and
> hopefully there gets to be some consensus.
Yes. And I recently found all the reviews were wrong for Magic Jack, a
voice over IP product sold by Radio Shack. I found a slew of only extremely
negative reviews, but having invested $35 dollars product, I decided to go
ahead and install it, and it worked great.
To continue way off-topic, I recommend Magic Jack as a way of adding a
phone line to your computer (I'm using it on my laptop while I'm away from
home). It's utter simplicity: you plug something the size of a flash-drive
into a USB port and then a regular (RJ-11?) phone line into it and . . .
voila, you've got a (sort of) land line. Voice quality is much better than
cell, and you don't get charged any minutes (okay, there's a trivial annual
charge, but they are right now offering it at $5 per YEAR, if you pay in
advance). And you get to choose (from a limited list) the first 6 digits of
your 10-digit phone number.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx