[ale] OT - Best Auto GPS

[Lightner, Jeff]

In fact she has a smart phone (pretty sure not a droid) and downloaded a
free GPS trial but I gather she never got it working and ended up
canceling it.

I just spent a couple of hours this past weekend getting her Apple mail
to work with her Bellsouth.net email.   (The AT&T disservice department
walked her through deleting her account then the power went out.   When
she called back they told her they only support the Web interface and
"offered" to transfer her to a pay support department to get her Apple
Mail working.)   As I said she isn't technical so often comes to me for
these kind of issues.  I was interested to find out AT&T apparently
moved all their user's to Yahoo Mail about a year ago.   It was also
interesting they were providing SSL ports to setup POP (excuse me POP3S
for the picky on the list) and SMTP.   I told her in future if she has
issues with mail first check to see if it shows up on the web site.  If
not she should call them and not mention the Apple.   

I found my way to the Apple CLI (terminal) so I could examine ports and
do some telnet to port tests.   Why the hell do they put it under
Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal and also have another Utilities at
same level as Applications that doesn't have Terminal?

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT - Best Auto GPS

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Get a droid phone, car power adapter and windshield-mount holder. The 
> maps are updated and the nav can show 3d or map view plus voice 
> instructions. It also accepts voice input.
> 
> Plus its a phone the can use when they still get lost.

With a screen 1/2 the size of larger GPSs.  One thing we were looking 
for for my MIL, was a BIG screen for her bad eyes.  Now if only the 
volume was louder for her bad ears... :(

> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com 
> <mailto:jlightner at water.com>> wrote:
> 
>     My neighbors who are senior citizens are considering getting a GPS
>     for their car and have asked if I'd be willing to help them pick
one.
> 
>      
> 
>     Since my own GPS is a factory installed in-dash one I don't have
any
>     opinions on the ones that one buys and would like some.   Of
course
>     I know that Garmin and others exists but not much more than that.
> 
>      
> 
>      From things I know and I've heard I'm thinking some of what would
>     be necessary:
> 
>      
> 
>     1)       Easy to use - These people aren't technical.    It needs
to
>     be easy to input destinations and also easy to get updates loaded.
> 
>      
> 
>     2)       Large display and/or audible turn information - I don't
>     really know how good their eyesight is but given that they're
older
>     I'm thinking this would be helpful.
> 
>      
> 
>     3)       Reasonable price for updates.  
> 
>      
> 
>     Of course any other factors one cares to mention would be welcome.
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
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Until later, Geoffrey

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