Anyone can recommend headphones--good to great sound--Help-- See inside

Hi everyone. I have a need for some headphones with great sound. Years ago at Radio Shack for approximately $50.00 you could get the best headphones, like the CIA uses for listening I think :) The sound was fantastic and far better than our MT headphones.

Well, now I have an account with very unclear, low volume. I just need better sound coming to the ears. Like in the olden days when I just typed because I could actually hear what they were saying!

If anyone has any great headphones, that minimize listening time and maximize typing time, please post or email me. I left my email address, just click the link to email. Thanks SOOOOOO much. Thanks. Really. Thanks.

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You can only find out so much from a company's website......of course they are not going to include "not enough work to keep you busy" or "so much work you will never leave your desk again" or even better yet "we really never send you a paycheck." I am looking for a full-time home-based position, preferably clinic, and I do have experience. Can someone recommend a company?!?!?!?!

I want a spellchecker that comes on CD that I can use again if my computer crashes. I had to purchase a new computer because my old one crashed and I am in the process of installing all my programs and software on my new PC. I have a line counting program and a spellchecker but they are both on A discs and newer computers do not have an A drive. Also, these discs (which I did not know when I purchased them) only gave you so many installations so if you wanted to move it from computer to another you had to uninstall it from one. Since my old computer crashed, I cannot go in and uninstall it and put it back on the floppy. I can't even sell these two programs on ebay as I have no idea how many installations are left on them! I do not understand this - I realize companies are protecting themselves from a person purchasing their product and then giving it to their friends but I have had times when I had more than one computer in my home and they were all only for my use. After having this last computer crash, I realize that I need another back up computer because I make too much money working on it to be without it and I have commitments that I have to honor.

I currently use a program called PC cillin. I have used Norton, and with both I still managed to get "worms" on my computer. Also, my internet service is with AOL.

What must be my 5th headset bit the dust tonight. I have gone through so many and thought this was a keeper. I have had Microsoft, Altec, Radio Shack and a few I cannot even remember. After a few months the mic quits working (operator destruction I'm sure).

Anyone have any suggestions on a good headset with mic? I prefer over the ears but will consider something else if its good and will last.

Then I would down load Express Scribe. That way you have what you need to test for most companies. Beyond that, I would wait until you get a job before you purchase anything else. A lot of companies will load the software on your PC that they use, others provide all equipment, and still others expect that you purchase whatever they require you to use.

If you want my opinion, I would work for a company as an employee for a while. That way they provide you with everything you need and you get the experience you need to move on to bigger and better things.

Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software

This software works as a transcriber that downloads into your computer and allows you to receive files and use your footpedal. I have used it a lot when applying for jobs and testing, especially because I can then use my footpedal and not my keyboard to advance the sound files. This is a free download too, so use it if you have to. I highly recommend it.....

I wonder if there is something else we could use our skills in that makes more money, maybe in medical records or billing and coding. Maybe being paid in something that pays hourly would be more beneficial. I am aware there are medical transcriptionists who really do make good money with benefits. Guess they have the right accounts to do so.

with the camera. Keep that video for a long time! People's memories have a way of fading.

Shelties are the sweetest, gentlest dogs, but their instinct is to nip feet in an attempt to herd. Have fun with your new sweetie!

Good post - good thinking but really, as MTs, we already know we cannot *assume* anything - even on a bulletin board. There are posters who annoy me too and those posters drive away the informative posters which is terribly unfortunate because many of them (the informative posters) are full of GREAT information that they are willing to share. I hate them being driven away by a couple of handfuls of perpetrators.

You cannot assume everyone is that poster - you can think it's them but there's no proof, really, when you think about it. Only the moderators/administrator know who is who on the boards. If things get nasty, they remove all the nasty threads.

GMTA - remember this - great minds think alike - we don't need to lower ourselves to the perps (lack of) standards.

John Faherty
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 2, 2006 12:00 AM

The rest of the country wakes up this morning asking one simple question: What time is it?

But not here. In Arizona we know exactly time it is. It's standard time, and it never changes.

The fact that we sit in blissful time innocence while the rest of the country tries to figure out how to adjust the clock on their car radio and wonders if TiVo will make the necessary adjustments is not an important thing, but it does say a lot about who we are.

We are independent. We have a contrarian's streak, and if something doesn't make sense, we don't want to do it.

And now we are alone in the continental U.S. This morning some counties in Indiana switched to daylight-saving time, leaving just Arizona and Hawaii.

Of course, people who have been here long enough know Arizona has been on daylight-saving time before.

The whole country went on DST during both World Wars to save energy.

After 1945 however, states and communities across the country were allowed to stay on DST or opt out. Arizona went off right away.

The nation became a time puzzle as states and communities were able to pick if, and even when, they would switch their clocks.

It was a mess best illustrated by the fact that the Twin Cities - Minneapolis and St. Paul - sometimes were an hour apart.

Finally, in 1967 the Uniform Time Act was instituted, putting the entire country on daylight-saving time.

Everybody had to do it for one year, and then states could opt out if they wanted to.

Farmers nationwide complained vehemently but nearly every state just stayed with the status quo.

But not Arizona.

It didn't make sense to people here. We had enough sunshine and didn't need to "save" any.

Besides, the sun stayed out so late here during the summer that if we set our clocks ahead by an hour it would be almost 10 p.m. by the time the sun set in June and July.

The owners of drive-in theaters complained vehemently. This was nearly 40 years ago and drive-ins actually had some juice.

So in March 1968, the state went standard and stayed there.

Which means people here will be getting phone calls for the next couple of weeks asking, "What time is it there?"

But we don't care.

We never saw a need to change our clocks and switch our watches, so we won't do it.

Before we get too smug though, we need to remember there was a time when our independence put us in an awkward time frame.

For a while people living in the Territory of Arizona actually switched to something called "Phoenix Time."

There was a long-running debate about whether Arizona was more closely affiliated with California and the West, or Colorado and the Santa Fe Railroad in New Mexico.

A now-laughable compromise was reached. "Phoenix Time" split the difference, putting us half an hour after Pacific Time and half an hour before Mountain Time.

It was dropped in 1910, and now we just set our clocks and let the world move around us.