Since I got a new phone (iPhone 6), I went ahead and updated the OSes on my iPad and older phone (3s). I know I only get phone service on my new phone, but I was wondering about using google voice to route calls to the other phone while it has access to wifi. Sort of make it an oversized iPod/city phone so I don't risk the new shiny while I'm getting exercise (I can access town wireless for a good part of my usual exercise route). Does anyone see any pitfalls with this plan? My old phone has no trade in value to speak of, and it fits my armband phone holders (my new phone, nsm).
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
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Calli - May 30, 2015 4:13:22 am PDT #24483 of 25496
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
DCJensen - May 30, 2015 11:45:33 am PDT #24484 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
Calli, it works. I actually have made and received free calls with Hangouts, which is what Google now prefers for using Voice.
You can also use other phone apps on the iPad and on your old phone to make outgoing calls via Wi-fi. There are a few out there that are totally free, including Ringto, and the like.
Calli - May 30, 2015 2:55:48 pm PDT #24485 of 25496
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Awesome! I'll totally try that when I'm sober. Thanks, DCJ!
DCJensen - Jun 06, 2015 2:16:39 pm PDT #24486 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
So here's a weird one for you all.
I have just resurrected a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with a new Motherboard. It works OK, except the keyboard has various keys out.
A USB keyboard works fine when plugged in.
I have a Dell Vostro 1525 with similar size keyboard, and they have the same ribbon connection, so I thought, "why not?"
After swapping the keyboard from the Vostro into the Inspiron, that keyboard worked.
So I decided it was the keyboard, and put the keyboard into the vostro so as not to lose parts while I scrounged for a new keyboard.
However, the Inspiron keyboard also works fine in the Vostro.
Thinking I had made some sort of mistake initially, I put the Inspiron keyboard back into the Inspiron. The missing keys were back.
I gave up and swapped them one more time, and both laptops work with the keyboards from the other.
At this point I'm tempted to pop off and swap the five or six keys that show different icons and go with it.
Connie Neil - Jun 09, 2015 8:23:46 pm PDT #24487 of 25496
brillig
What do people recommend for downloading off of YouTube? A recent Firefox upgrade seems to have knocked out the one I had.
Jon B. - Jun 10, 2015 6:18:10 am PDT #24488 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've been happy with the NetVideoHunter add-in for Firefox. It works with Vimeo too!
Vortex - Jun 10, 2015 5:23:02 pm PDT #24489 of 25496
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My free McAfee has expired. Thoughts for new antivirus? Stay with McAfee? Something else?
Typo Boy - Jun 10, 2015 10:50:35 pm PDT #24490 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Does your internet provider offer free anti-virus? Comcast does, as do many others.
Gris - Jun 11, 2015 2:19:47 am PDT #24491 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Lifehacker recs: [link]
I should probably install avast on my desktop. Still just using windows defender.
Vonnie K - Jun 12, 2015 5:54:04 am PDT #24492 of 25496
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I'm having an odd issue with getting to the livejournal site. It was working fine last night, and since this morning, I can't get the page to open at all. The LJ status report says there is nothing wrong. I can actually get on LJ on my phone using 4G network, but on my home network? Not working. I can get to all other sites, just not LJ.
I've tried: rebooting the computer, clearing the cache, flushing DNS cache, changing DNS service to Google Public DNS according to the recs from this site and so far, no dice. Usually, I wouldn't care that much, but I just posted on LJ last night after 3 weeks' of silence and I am getting comments, but can't reply to them. Which is irritating.