Posts made by donaldlandru

Cleaning up my old post and marking it solved. After taking options and cost to the business we ended up staying with the bundled music.

It appears most of my reply git stuck in the quote block. I blame the iPad.

Even the cheapest DSLR is still above what most would consider disposable range though. Again YMMV and really depends on the part of the world you plan to visit.

@JaredBusch said in Camera for travel:

@Ambarishrh said in Camera for travel:

We are planning to travel every year to new destinations other than our home countries we normally do. Starting this year with Georgia.

I have a Samsung S7 and my wife an iPhone 6. Curious to know what are the recommendations, do i go with a point n shoot camera, or just continue use the phone? Drone is still under consideration but i am worried that this might not be allowed in some places and a very good one is super expensive now.

Honestly, I would never recommend anyone to buy a point and shoot today if they have a good phone like those.

A modern smart phone is a point and shoot equivalent.

If you want to go beyond a smart phone, then step up to a low end DSLR.
I agree with @JaredBusch with one exception, if you are worried about loss/damage of your phone. Then I would recommend a point and shoot. I personally recommend Canon Powershot line to my family members that have not entered the smartphone age. IMO they are super simple to use.

The caveat of course is instant upload backup is a little more difficult with these devices.

Looking forward to next year as well. A big thanks to @Minion-Queen, ntg and everyone else required to make this happen

Sitting at the hotel, doing work stuffs.

Galvanized water pipe broke in my house in the middle of the night. No worries, they don't make me do this kind of stuff in the office.

I'll take any recommendations anyone wants to give. Glad to still be making my flight after dealing with this since 0500 https://imgur.com/gallery/HOsYg

Anyone else coming in Tuesday afternoon? My flight gets in 1700. Curious to see who else might be around. Other than our gracious hosts of course who will be running around getting everything put together

Interested.

@BRRABill said in Letchworth Park:

@donaldlandru said in Letchworth Park:

Sooooo, I thought my outbound flight was 5:32am Saturday morning, turns out it is 5:32pm. Any space left on this trip / is there enough time to get back for my flight?

Wow that would have sucked if you didn't figure that out until you got to the airport!

Yea, that would not have been a fun time

@Minion-Queen said in Letchworth Park:

@donaldlandru said in Letchworth Park:

Sooooo, I thought my outbound flight was 5:32am Saturday morning, turns out it is 5:32pm. Any space left on this trip / is there enough time to get back for my flight?

Yes there is space and yes we can get you back by time for your flight

Awesome! Count me in!

Sooooo, I thought my outbound flight was 5:32am Saturday morning, turns out it is 5:32pm. Any space left on this trip / is there enough time to get back for my flight?

@nerdbitmn

@scottalanmiller said:

We just use the generic We don't really keep people on hold.

Ouch Yea this is just for the people that decide they want to dial in 15 minutes early to a conference call (meetme). We have leader wait turned on. Not convinced we need to invest dollars here but it has wiggled its way to the C-levels so here I am.

Just about everyone that uses our conference system is complaining about the stock music on hold that is included. Personally I agree the music is dated; however, it is free and what came preloaded.

I am curious to see what anyone else is doing for this. I was looking at easyonhold.com today and setup their demo stream in under 5 minutes which is good quality and not the same old boring.

Anyone have experience (pricing) for these guys or other alternatives?

Thank

@JaredBusch said:

I use follow me like this:

When when I need or want follow me i simply dial *21 to toggle it on.

It is good to point out you can enable confirm calls here as well.

@scottalanmiller said:

@donaldlandru said:

@JaredBusch said:

Actually it is a horrible feature, IMO.

Any more substance to that? We use this on 15+ ring groups dedicated to client support teams, everyone here likes it.

Sure they do, the question is... do the clients like it?

Everyone loves spam filters, until customers can't reach you and you realize you were blocking too much. That your users like the feature shouldn't be a factor, right?

I guess I don't know how the client feels about it, that is for project managers to handle. Since these are primarily on-call situations (middle of the night calls). The previous solution was for the client to start calling cell phone numbers at random, I would think this is an improvement on all counts.

@coliver said:

@JaredBusch said:

Actually it is a horrible feature, IMO. You are making the person calling you dial digits after already likely dialing something to get to you in the first place.

This is for the receiving end of the call if I did my research correctly. Press 1 to answer this call. I use it on my Google Voice number and love it.

This is correct. The sending party doesn't know the difference. They get to listen to music on hold while we try to get someone from their support team on the line. Our support personnel have to press 1

@JaredBusch said:

Actually it is a horrible feature, IMO.

Any more substance to that? We use this on 15+ ring groups dedicated to client support teams, everyone here likes it.

@johnhooks said:

@coliver said:

@johnhooks said:

Just a quick question. I have my FreePBX dial my cell number as part of the extension list for some of the IVR options. If I don't have service (which at our house is common) my voicemail picks up after one right. What's the best way you've found to deal with that? Just a follow me? Or is there a better way?

Which voicemail picks up? The one on your cellphone or the one on your PBX?

The one for my cell phone. Once the IVR dials the ring group, it will only ring once and then the cell phone voicemail picks up (when there is no cell service).

With ring groups I always use, and recommend, the confirm calls option. The only slight annoyance is the fact you have to press 1 on your cell/home phone to answer the call. To me the benefit of retaining the caller ID and knowing it is an office call before accepting the call outweighs that.