Hi Howard;
That's good way of looking at the problem.  The novelty of jfw upgrades and
sma contracts is beginning to get old.  Particularly in light of the fact
that for this user at least I'm not certain if some of the changes really
make much difference.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: computer questions


> You are not thrilled with ten dollars per month?
> What thrills you then?
> That's less than the cost of the yearly jfw upgrade, and just a bit more
> than the yearly window-eyes upgrade.
> The freedombox has a number of flavors.
> The latest version which is version 2, has a built in screen reader called
> "system access" It doesn't talk with eudora, but it talks fine with
> outlook, outlook express, IE, the windows operating system, goldwave,
> winamp, spybot but not addaware, because their is no mouse navigation.
> It works with word, and excell.  Supposed to read powerpoint but not sure
> about that all.  The service also comes with an ocr program which isn't
> bad.  The coolest thing is that you can get this on a mini-disk, which can
> make any windows machine talk.  When you remove the disk, the computer
> returns to normal, with no internal system changes.
> Don't even think about using the mike to run the program, because it
> won't.  You can make voice e-mails however which do work.
> Especially for a new computer user, this thing is quite good.
> http://www.freedombox.info
> download a trial and give it a spin.
> In their private area, they have hundreds of movies in dvs with out the
> pictures.  Just watched the empire strikes back, this morning.