[gui-talk] YAHOO!!!

Sun Aug 22 20:08:03 UTC 2010

Er, um, that's a bit extreme, dontchya think? <g>

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William and Bernadette Jacobs" <bandbjacobs at verizon.net>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:16 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] YAHOO!!!

> My experience with YAHOO is that it's entirely H O P E L E S S!!!!!  For 
> three weeks I had nothing but trouble with YAHOO as a portal with my 
> Verizon email and for that entire three weeks, Everything I sent over to 
> the National Center bounced back.  For about ten days out of the three 
> weeks, Verizon, the Center and I were all scrambling to figure out what 
> the problem was.  It took eight different calls to Verizon and still, 
> nobody could figure it out.  Then I got wise and called Verizon, telling 
> them, Gotta get rid of that .....  YAHOO!  So, we did it and WALA... 
> Haven't had a lick of trouble since!!  Good Riddens to YAHOO--Just gotta 
> denounce them for the dispicableCrooks they are!!
>
> Later gang!
>
> Bern
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>>   1. yahoo problems (qubit)
>>   2. Fwd:  Article:  Karen (Steve Pattison)
>>   3. Fwd:  1 Password for Windows (Steve Pattison)
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>> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:08 -0500
>> From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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>> Hi all --
>> I have been trying to interact with one of the groups I'm subscribed to 
>> on
>> yahoo but am getting a page full of markup. I'm wondering if anyone else 
>> has
>> run into similar behavior with jaws on yahoo.  Either jaws "chewed it up" 
>> or
>> there is some new markup on the page that isn't getting translated right.
>> Come to think of it, I often get this on other sites as well, but I get 
>> it
>> most frequently on yahoo.
>> Any assistance is welcome.
>> Have a great weekend.
>> --le
>>
>>
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>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:00:42 +1000
>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  Article:  Karen
>> Message-ID: <20100822160041.8291.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> This article is about Karen Jacobsen who is the voice that the RealSpeak
>> Karen voice is based on that is used in JAWS and some other adaptive
>> technology products.  More information about Karen Jacobsen can be found
>> at www.karenjacobsen.com.  You can also hear some of her songs on her
>> home page.  -Steve.
>>
>> From:    Peter.Scanlon at justice.vic.gov.au
>> To:      vip-l at freelists.org
>>
>> Meet 'the other woman' who is always telling you where to go
>>                By: Garry Maddox
>> August 14, 2010
>> Karen Jacobsen, a Queenslander who has been living in New York for 10
>> years, is the voice of GPS units in Australia.
>> Could drivers be finding in their GPS units something more than just 
>> their
>> way home? Are American Jill or Espanol Paulina becoming ''the other
>> woman''
>> for harried males who spend hours each day on the road? Are women driving
>> to work fantasising about an evening with Irish Sean?
>> Karen Jacobsen, a little-known singer known as ''Australian Karen'' in
>> millions of TomToms, NavMans and other GPS units around the world, learnt
>> a couple
>> of years ago that she had an underground fan club of smitten drivers.
>> ''I started to be contacted by people thanking me for getting them 
>> through
>> a dark lonely road in Italy or being lost in the Black Forest in Germany
>> or
>> around Los Angeles on the freeways or taking them to school and back,'' 
>> Ms
>> Jacobsen said. ''It's increased to the point where I've realised people
>> really do have
>> an intimate relationship with the voice in their GPS system.''
>> The American writer Bruce Feiler wondered in The New York Times recently
>> whether the GPS unit was rewriting the rules of male-female relationships
>> after
>> confessing that he had fallen for the automated voice that had ''guided 
>> me
>> effortlessly through the maze of freeways and road rage like a graceful
>> hostess
>> - unflappable, efficient and with just enough sex appeal to give some
>> sizzle to my protracted absence from my wife''.
>> He quickly realised he was not alone. ''At sites like gpspassion.com and
>> pdastreet.com, the number of lewd comments about the voices of American
>> Jill or
>> Australian Karen seem more suited to a convention of 900-number [adult
>> entertainment line] users.''
>> Ms Jacobsen, who has lived in New York for 10 years, is always meeting
>> people who feel they know her already because of her voice. ''They'll 
>> want
>> to tell
>> me right away the story of the time we were travelling in this city or
>> that country and what happened,'' she said.
>> Jacobsen is not surprised that the connection matters to drivers. 
>> ''You're
>> on that dark lonely road on your own in the car, you don't know where you
>> are
>> and this voice, even though its coming from a machine, seems like your
>> companion. It's something that you're trusting.''
>> She believes the voice on the GPS unit can help relationships by stopping
>> arguments between couples about directions.
>> ''They take it out on the third-party GPS. It's kind of like a community
>> service - reducing the amount of angst between couples in the car.''
>> The chief executive of Relationships Australia NSW, psychologist Anne
>> Hollonds, agrees that GPS units are easing tension on the road between
>> couples by
>> ''outsourcing the navigation role''.
>> And Ms Hollonds is not surprised that drivers are having an emotional
>> response to the voice.
>> ''The car is actually a very intimate environment,'' she said. ''A lot of
>> people will say they have their most meaningful conversations - with 
>> their
>> partner
>> or their kids - in the car. It's like a bubble.''
>> Ms Jacobsen's new career started when she recorded almost 50 hours of
>> script for a text-to-speech system. Having now achieved a strange kind of
>> fame, she
>> is taking it for a spin.
>> Her latest CD is called Take A Little Drive. (And, no, it doesn't include
>> lyrics like ''at the next intersection, turn left''.) She also has a
>> personal
>> development podcast called Directions For Life and has shot a pilot for a
>> TV show called Travel the World With the GPS Girl.
>> ''Growing up as a little girl in Mackay in north Queensland, I always
>> wanted my songs - my voice - to be coming out of the car radio,'' 
>> Jacobsen
>> said.
>> ''Now,
>> all these years later, my voice is coming out of the GPS.''
>>
>> Regards Steve
>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>> Skype:  steve1963
>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:28:32 +1000
>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  1 Password for Windows
>> Message-ID: <20100822162831.82AF.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> From:    Dane Trethowan grtdane at internode.on.net
>> To:      Vip-l Mailing list vip-l at freelists.org
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> So here's another auto password/auto form fill application and for 
>> Windows there are
>> several, I've been using one up till now called Robo Form.
>>
>> So what's different about 1 Password? Well firstly the Windows version 
>> has just been released
>> as a public beta and I'm pleased to say that everything seems to be 
>> perfectly accessible however
>> if you're into beta testing products and you'd like to put the software 
>> through its paces to be sure
>> its working as it should then go to http://www.1password.com and click on 
>> the windows link.
>>
>> Further more if you're a Mac or an Iphone user as well as a Windows user 
>> then 1 Password on
>> all your systems could make things so much easier for you, you'll be able 
>> to sync all your log-in
>> info and so on to all your devices that run 1 Password.
>>
>> Regards Steve
>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>> Skype:  steve1963
>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>
>>
>>
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