Re: Phone 'chips' (was Old Phone)

[Shapelle McNee]

Fun oh! Interesting stuff.
Well I reckon 'old farts' probably know a lot more about a lot of 
things than 'younger farts'.
However, I do remember those A and B buttons as a young kid, 
forgetting to push the button (was it A or B ...) and yelling down 
the phone to no effect  (exasperating or foolish!?).


Cheers
Shapelle



Hehe Though, to be fair, Powerwatch seem to be in the business of
telling you how bad EM fields are and then selling you stuff to
monitor/protect you:

Mobile phones are bad! 

EMFields has been established to provide high quality measurement equipment
and screening products to protect people from the ever-increasing levels of
Electromagnetic radiation, or electrosmog, in our environment.


So Willau-Tronic would be a competitor to EMFields which seems to be closely
aligned to Powerwatch.

Personally, I'm amazed that in Australia we have more mobile phone
subscriptions than people! - and I'm probably more concerned about the
social aspects than the radiation/medical effects - but then I am an old
fart!...

When I were a lad, WE never had a phone in the house... You had to walk down
the road to the phone booth and play with "Button A" and "Button B"

Cheers


Neil
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phone!)
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on 18/7/08 12:02 AM, Shay Telfer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 At 11:57 PM +0800 17/07/2008, Shay Telfer wrote:

 Hi Barry

 Just in case you might be interested, mobile phones can be made a
 lot safer, (for children and adults) with the use of phone chips.
 They counteract the electromagnetic waves emitted from the phone
 (without interfering with its operation).  Willau-Tronic, a company
 based in Germany, have produced such a chip (E-Smog Handy chip).  It
 is a small bit of circuit with a chip, and is fashioned so you can
 attach it to the battery of the phone.  I do notice a difference
 with a chip attached.

 There are other organisations that produce safety devices to attach
 to mobile phones.  Google might be able to help,there.

 The first mobile phone chip I ever got was for my niece (then seven
 years old) who had just got a mobile phone so she could keep in
 touch with her Dad.

 I'm not sure if there are still distributors in WA or not. There
 used to be several individuals who sold them.

 Willau-Tronic makes chips for computers too.   I use one on my Mac
 24" computer and the screen/computer no longer gives me a headache.

 Anywise, as there are people that make these wonderful inventions it
 would seem there are also people who make inventions so they are
 safe to use.

 Cheers
 Shapelle


 You mean these guys?

 http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/News/20041213_willautronic.asp

 I hope they don't charge much for them.

 Have fun,
 Shay





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Re: Old Phone

[Shapelle McNee]

Hi Barry

Just in case you might be interested, mobile phones can be made a lot 
safer, (for children and adults) with the use of phone chips.  They 
counteract the electromagnetic waves emitted from the phone (without 
interfering with its operation).  Willau-Tronic, a company based in 
Germany, have produced such a chip (E-Smog Handy chip).  It is a 
small bit of circuit with a chip, and is fashioned so you can attach 
it to the battery of the phone.  I do notice a difference with a chip 
attached.


There are other organisations that produce safety devices to attach 
to mobile phones.  Google might be able to help,there.


The first mobile phone chip I ever got was for my niece (then seven 
years old) who had just got a mobile phone so she could keep in touch 
with her Dad.


I'm not sure if there are still distributors in WA or not. There used 
to be several individuals who sold them.


Willau-Tronic makes chips for computers too.   I use one on my Mac 
24" computer and the screen/computer no longer gives me a headache.


Anywise, as there are people that make these wonderful inventions it 
would seem there are also people who make inventions so they are safe 
to use.


Cheers
Shapelle




Phillip

Just for your information my Grand-daughter is 13.  She has a 
medical condition which is potentially serious so she need a form of 
communication in emergencies.  I the past six months she has made 
about $15 of prepaid calls, not enough to cause major problems I 
would have thought.


Barry

On 15/07/2008, at 11:04 PM, Phillip Arena wrote:


Hi Barry,

Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your 
grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young  (as in 8 
and below) using mobile phones.  Mobile phone companies simply 
brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health 
hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to 
alarm  you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as 
electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication 
installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material 
there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a 
number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued 
with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the 
forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in 
the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with 
Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone 
has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either 
base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed 
forces communications officer.  In New York city, they have been 
removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks.


Remember that smoking, asbestos and DDT were once considered safe.

I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched 
on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find 
recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using 
phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a 
mobile in a dangerous situation.


Australia and the Mobile Carriers Forum are really back in the dark 
ages and are doing very little to inform us - if it doesn't matter 
to you then that's a personal choice - as for us, our daughters (4 
and 8) already discuss the dangers of the overuse of mobile phones 
(yes, I shall be holding out as long as possible before allowing 
them to have a mobile).  Mobile phones are making certain companies 
very, VERY rich with total disregard to the impact on the health of 
our society.


Oh, besides health, I met a colleague's son who at a conference 
admitted that his last phone bill was "around $3000" and his 
friend, "around $1500".


Gosh...what did we do without them?

Regards

Phil

With so many people showing an interest in getting an iPhone is 
there someone with an old unlocked phone they have replaced.  I am 
looking for something for one of my Grandchildren who tends to 
destroy phones with great regularity so it needs to be reasonably 
cheap.  Bells and whistles are not required but it must pass the 
"not daggy" test.  Also should be unlocked so current Vodaphone 
SIM card can be used.


Thanks

Barry

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Re: Accounting with OSX?

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Hi Paul

At work we have iMac and use parrallels so that we can still use MYOB 
(now that MYOB do not service iMac versions anymore).


Cheers
Shapelle




I have a some sons with a successful plumbing business.  For several
years they've been operating MYOB on Windoze, but have finally
changed over the office computer to a new iMac.  Does anyone have any
suggestions for a better accounting package to use on the new machine.

Cheers, Paul.


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GIS programs and Mac

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Hi

Just wondered if someone could help me who has /does work with GIS 
programs on Mac.


I've used ArcView and Geomedia on IBM computers.

Would like to be able to use a GIS program on a Mac.
Planning to purchase a SuperDrive Mac  tomorrow (upgrading from 
my personal LC475!!!, that has been neglected these past three years 
as have been using ibookG4 at work)


Have looked at what is available.
I guess top of the range would be GRASS GIS
Has anyone had any experience with this program?

Not sure whether any of the other GIS packages would be suitable?

I use the GIS programs for Biological Survey Work.
ie. using geo-referenced aerial photographs and plotting locations of 
birds (or plants or ...).
eg. positions of calling birds located in the field using a GPS and 
compass and estimating distance, or positions of radio tracked birds 
where they have been hand plotted on photocopies of aerial 
photography - prior to 2001.  Thus have either plotted points 
visually or by loading in the GPS coordinates via excel spreadsheet 
then Access database (using Arcview or Geomedia)
Need to be able to work out distances between points and produce maps 
at different scales. Would also be good to be able to calculate areas 
on the map.  Need to be able to select datum to use.  Also for the 
program to be able to give the northing and easting of any point 
placed on the map.  Need to be able to have a complex legend where 
can turn on or off the different properties and for each point to be 
able to record attributes for (detailed data relevant for each 
point). 


I have wondered if it is possible to use Arcview (or Geomedia) on a 
Mac, especially now can use IBM programs on the newer Mac via 
BootCamp and Windows XP.


Also would it be possible to interrogate maps that have been produced 
by an Arcview or Geomedia program?  Maybe just easier to re enter all 
the info??


I'm not particularly computer literate, tho can learn fast enough.

I hope this makes sense!?
Cheers
Shapelle

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