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Should I get another year?



 
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Do you think the prices will go up for the jack?
Yes
86%
 86%  [ 20 ]
No
13%
 13%  [ 3 ]
Total Votes : 23

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kumar
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:51 pm    Post subject: Should I get another year? Reply with quote

Since the Magicjack people are saying that they will officially introduce the Magicjack this year, the prices will most likely go up. Do you guys thinks I should purchase another year about 9 months early, or do you think I can wait and still get another year for $20. I made a small poll to see if what are your opinions on the pricing. Ends 2/29/07
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snowigloo
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes i took the 20 dollar gamble
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laserjobs
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

States on the package $19.95 for additional years.
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Delavan
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If they can get their act together and improve the service, I'll gladly sign up for another year. But if they keep causing me grief and croaking every darn day, then it may not be worth the aggravation. Especially when you need to spend the money to keep a PC running 24/7. Once you manage to get the MJ running, you're not too keen on ending the process in order to put your PC in Standby mode for the night because it may not work again in the morning.
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garybritt
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a macro that runs and kills the magicjack.exe and puts the computer to sleep after X minutes of inactivity. Another macro reloads magicjack.exe when I wake up the computer.

Never been a problem for me.

I kill and restart magicjack usually several times a day for one reason or another.

Gary
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Delavan
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Gary, sounds like something I could use. Can you post the macros and instructions so I don't have to keep doing this manually? Thanks in advance.
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garybritt
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My macros are macro express macros. You would first have to purchase macro express to use them. You could do the same thing with autoit or autohotkey which are free macro programs, but my macros won't help you with that.

Gary
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Delavan
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Gary, I'll check out those free macro programs sometime. For now, I just created a batch program Standby.bat that contains 2 lines.

taskkill /f /im magicjack.exe
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

Then I created a desktop icon for it. At night I just double click the icon to terminate MJ and go into standby. It seems to work just fine.
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garybritt
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent solution for manually turning magicjack on and off or setting suspend state. You could also use a batch file to just kill magicjack or just to reload it.

The only thing my suspend macro adds that a batch file doesn't is that macro express has a function counter that keeps track of how much time has elapsed since last keypress or mouse move. That way I can have the computer auto-suspend or auto-hibernate after set time of inactivity by first killing magicjack and then activating the suspend or hibernate function.

Gary
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war59312
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is an option, have it run while screen saver becomes active:

http://lifehacker.com/software/screensavers/geek-to-live--put-your-idle-computer-to-work-for-you-196567.php
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garybritt
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice Tip on RunSaver. From the download page linked to there is an autohotkey script called Idle Mute that is intended to mute sound after a certain period of inactivity. Looks like that script could be easily modified to run the kill magicjack activate suspend/hibernate batch file (autohotkey could execute those commands directly also without having to run a separate batch file).

A modified IdleMute autohotkey script would mimic what I do with macro express it would seem, but for free.

Gary
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