{"id":278,"date":"2008-05-11T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:41:00","slug":"150-moms-extreme-reader-oovoo-apple-service-archos-705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/150-moms-extreme-reader-oovoo-apple-service-archos-705\/","title":{"rendered":"#150 Mom’s Extreme Reader, ooVoo, Apple Service, Archos 705"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Mother’s day I interview my mom about her newest tech gadget, the Extreme Reader from Guerilla Technologies<\/a>. ooVoo for 6-way video calls at oovoo.com<\/a>. In Dumb Question Corner we cover switching windows in Word, creating anniversary calendars in iCal using Dates to iCal from nhoj.co.uk\/datestoical\/<\/a>, Keystroke to send Mail, how to restore a user directory from a thumb drive. We look at Honda Bob’s website to learn all about brakes at hdabob.com<\/a>. And finally Donald Burr from otakunopodcast<\/a> explains to me the virtues and few failings of the Archos 705 from archos.com<\/a>. See his pictures at borg-cube.com<\/a>, download Miro from getmiro.com<\/a>, iSquint from isquint.org<\/a> and Handbrake from handbrake.fr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Listen to the Podcast Once<\/a> (47 min 05 sec)
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Today is Sunday May 11th, 2008, and this is show number 150.<\/p>\n

Happy Mother’s Day!<\/b>
\n\"ExtremeHappy Mother’s day to all the moms out there! I was trying to figure out what I could to to honor the moms out there, and I figured the best way to do that was to give you the long awaited interview with my own mom. My mom is 87 years old and blind, and if anything she’s doing more exciting things with her life than ever before. In the interview that follows, she’ll be reviewing the Extreme Reader from Guerilla Technologies<\/a>. <\/p>\n

=========INSERT MOM INTERVIEW============<\/p>\n

Now that you’ve heard her yourself, can you believe she’s 87??? do you see why she’s my hero? I don’t know how it happened, but we both turned into geeks when i wasn’t paying attention. Because she’s so interested in technology, she really seems to enjoy hearing about my podcast and all the fun I have with it. I took some pictures of my mom and her “gear” – and I’ve got them up on the blog. You definitely want to check these pics out, I got a shot of the Extreme Reader, but also of the startup screen of her computer, sporting a 66 MHz cpu, 640 kilobytes of memory, and a 16MB hard drive (partitioned into two 8 MB drives of course!) She runs Word Perfect 5.1 on this bad boy under DOS. <\/p>\n

There’s a good reason, not just mother abuse, why she’s using a 14 year old computer. When she got it my brother set her up with a cool program called Lyon Large Type that works with Word Perfect to give a high contrast, giant sized version of the text you’re typing at the bottom of the screen. You can see this in the photos as well. This was very helpful for a long time, but she can’t see the text any more at all unfortunately. She still does a wonderful job of capturing our family memories in her class, so it’s all good! Head on over to the blog, see my beautiful mom. And if your mom is still with you, give her a call and say hi – that’s what she really wants from you.<\/p>\n

pictures of mom and her setup and all 3 of us.
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