although the difference surprised me at first. I did have one odd occurrence where a Skype caller could hear my wife on a simultaneous PSTN call but I couldn't hear her. I didn't have time to try to reproduce the problem before deadline, but I suspect the problem...

One annoying volume-related problem is that when the volume on the SuperTooth is turned up to hear the caller better, the text-to-speech voice is overly loud. The two audio signals are disproportionate, with the text-to-speech voice much louder than any caller’s...

reload Asterisk (since you changed a configuration file, remember?) and dial back in from your outside line. Once the demo starts to explain the available extensions, dial 1205 to trigger your new extension. You should hear a beep and you can then record your...

or it doesn't. There's not much troubleshooting involved. There were only a handful of known showstopper problems - unfortunately, one of them involved Boris and a particular and quite popular PC model. The caller is already crying when I answer. Boris has...

workstation. I went out to the site and started to look at the situation. I forced the nightly backup to run immediately, and it finished completely with no errors. I learned that a new user was using this machine, which the caller had not told me before. So...

which you pick a number to call Keypad: Brings up a numeric keypad for touch dialing of a phone number Voice Mail: Access to the iPhone's unique voice mail service that shows information about the message and allows you to hear the message without calling your...

while you can hear the detail in music tracks, it’s not as clear as on better headphones. The sound quality for phone calls is average too; you’ll hear callers more clearly than they hear you and even with the volume up you may have to speak more loudly...

for. There's also a power adapter in the box as standard equipment. The BT620s aren't just headphones - they also work as a Bluetooth headset for your mobile phone. The microphone is on the right cam, so callers might hear more background noise than usual,...

Prime against the cheek—which is necessary to activate Aliph’s lauded NoiseAssassin 2.0 software for noise cancellation. With earlier models of Jawbone, we’ve had trouble keeping the tip against our cheek—which often meant callers couldn’t even hear...