Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
Posts: 56

Re: Anyone actually USE silent alert???

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Originally posted by Shel
O.K. I figured having had my Visor now for a few weeks,I'd finally give the "silent alert" feature a try.

Having an important, early morning appointment, the night before, I set an alarm for 5:30 am, went into Datebk+, and set alarm on. Then (diligantly following the instructions), I went into "alarm preferences", and set it to Silent.

Well, I gotta tell you... I SLEPT right through the damn thing!!!

Seriously... does anyone really use this feature? My Visor Edge is either in my pocket, or on a table. Unless I were in a movie theater, and the Edge was in a shirt pocket, with the bottom pointing up, I doubt I'd really see it....

Anyone use this feature???

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One comment - I hope you're being sarcastic when you say you slept through the silent alarm.. If I have to I'll point out the obvious flaw in your logic... Just teasing... but the silent alarm definetly doesn't do any good if you don't have your Edge in a position where you can keep your eye on it.

Personally, everytime I go to a meeting, the bathroom, or even a movie I toggle the silent alarm. I set alarms for events *all over the place* .. so many that I can't keep track. I do this because it keeps me from forgetting to do anything. Then when I'm out of my meeting, or I leave the theater, I toggle the alarm back on.

Personally I love it... I just wish they'd incorporate IR beaming into DB+. Every time I want to beam an event to my wife's Deluxe, I have to enter DB... which I never use.

-chris

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

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Originally posted by cjones


Question... who is this 'mathias' company? I too am just *itching* to get a stowaway keyboard for my Edge. It's just got to be the most functional and neat product I've seen in a long time. But did some small web searching and didn't find anything on 'mathias'. Spill the info!

-chris

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
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Originally posted by dietrichbohn


Sorry, I meant matias, no "h." They make the Halfkeyboard, Here's the site:

http://www.halfkeyboard.com

And there's also an excellent review from VisorCentral.

The more I think about it, the more I want it: what better way to take notes while you're reading a book, you can take notes without even taking your eyes off the text! Dang!

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Ahh... that too I definetly would love. I sent an email to them right after the review came out from Visorcentral. They said they have no plans to make an Edge-compatible version...

-chris

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

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Originally posted by cjones
Ahh... that too I definetly would love. I sent an email to them right after the review came out from Visorcentral. They said they have no plans to make an Edge-compatible version...

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What? I don't have the email here, but I seem to recall thinking something different. Man, any more bad news about my edge and you can start looking for my posts in the "Marketplace" section of Visorcentral.

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Originally posted by dietrichbohn


What? I don't have the email here, but I seem to recall thinking something different. Man, any more bad news about my edge and you can start looking for my posts in the "Marketplace" section of Visorcentral.

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Ok... I was wrong. I just sent the matias folks an email and this is what I got:

> Hello Christopher,
>
> Thanks for your email...
>
> > I've got a Visor Edge and I'd like to know if
> > there's any plans to make a version for the Edge,
> > and if so when?
>
> We have one in the works.
>
> If you wish to get a notice when it's available, please complete and submit this
> form:
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> http://halfkeyboard.com/contact/index.html#form
>
> No definite date yet but most likely sometime in October.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matias Help Desk
>
> [email protected]
> +1-905-265-8844

So now the race is on... who will get a Edge keyboard out first - Matias with the half keyboard or Thinkoutside with the stowaway keyboard?

-chris

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

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Originally posted by cjones
So now the race is on... who will get a Edge keyboard out first - Matias with the half keyboard or Thinkoutside with the stowaway keyboard?

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