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I may have finally wised up about printers. If you aren't careful, you can end up spending

a fortune on replacement ink cartridges.

I bought a Canon printer with the side tanks and i absolutely love it.

I do not do a lot of printing,,,,,, but the cartridges always seemed to be going empty.

My last (and i do mean last) HP ended up costing a lot more than the Canon that I really enjoy.

You will like the price, too.

You should E Mail the National Federation of the Blind or The American Council of the Blind. Google them.

They should be able to offer suggestions from people who deal with this sort of thing every day.

James....... If you cannot find someone closer........ I will help you via Skype.

Do you know what the eye of the potato is??

That is the start....... If i remember correctly.

Yes, there has been a lot of discussion about it. In the IT section, look for the thread entitled Request Timeout.

It seems to be getting better.

I use a VPN for banking and ebay/paypal transactions.

My VPN stopped working on Monday..... will no longer connect.

Boxed wines have not been available in their usual (for us) outlets in the Rayong area.

A store clerk told me today that the price was set to double - very soon.

I think these can be bought at Big C and foodland. They come in a lime green colored rectangular box, that you place this powdery grains in, set and forget.

I use the same and agree they work very well.

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Yes......... This is the one. You may need to use a little mayo or peanut butter to get them started.

You must think like an ant.

We went through a similar situation several years ago.

Ended up renting a house and hiring a Thai couple for housekeeping duties

and hired nurses to come in.

It was not cheap but compared to what it would have cost for nursing home care in

the USA - it was very inexpensive.

Got mine from Invade several years ago. It has been very handy.

We have a lot of electricity outages so I bought a Tiger 950 Portable Generator.

I assume that I have about 600 useable watts.

Is it safe to charge my Asus TF 101 ............ and/or operate my pc with it??

I don't know how stable this electric current is.

It has both 220 and 12 volt outlets.

Can I use it like an ordinary wall outlet ? (see photo)

I will chime in. I always check availability first with Invade. If they have it (and they usually do) I will buy from them.

Bought a new router last week, as a matter of fact.

I buy from Invade quite often. Excellent prices and service.

This has become my preferred way of IT shopping in Thailand.

When U.S. folks turn 65 they are eligible for the govt national health plan called Medicare. Medicare Part A requires no monthly premiums for most folks and covers basic in-hospital care, but you really need Part B also to cover many other medical costs to include some hospital costs and outpatient costs. You can easily end up in the poor house or not affording medical care without the Part B coverage. For 2013 the Part B monthly premium is $104.90 for most folks. Unfortunately, for U.S. expats, Medicare only covers you in the U.S.; not if you are living outside the U.S. And if you don't sign up for Medicare Part B when you turn 65, your monthly premium will be 10% higher per each year you delayed signing-up for your remaining life. Yea, a delay in your decision to sign-up for or not sign-up for Part B could get costly.

Whether to sign-up for Medicare Part B or not when turning 65 and being a U.S. expat and maybe not being 100% sure if Thailand will be your home for the remainder or you life and getting hit with much higher Medicare premiums if returning to the U.S. can probably make the Medicare sign-up decision when turning 65 a little tough for some U.S. expats.

Now, if Thailand could come up with a good medical plan for expats with monthly premiums equal to or less than Medicare Part B premium costs, then I expect some (maybe many) U.S expats would sign up for it.

You laid that out perfectly. I agree with you,,,,,,,, many US expats would sign up for it.

Picasa is the program i have found most useful. I take a LOT of photos.

Picasa offers not only storage but photo adjustment/enhancement - and is the easiest

method for e mailing photos.

I use Fastone to open them to full size.

Thank you for the good replies.

Air Card service down here is too slow for Skype - which is mainly what they want.

We thought about 3G but True shot that idea down pretty quickly.

Ordinarily I would not trust my line to anyone but me - but i do trust them and it is

only for about 4 or 5 weeks out of the year.

I have TOT ADSL using the TOT issued TP 2 ADSL Router. WiFi Coverage for my condo is fine.

I would like to be able to share my signal with friends who come to visit, several times a year.

I am on the 8th Floor and they are on the 2nd Floor. My signal does not reach that far.

We both have a common electrical raceway, carrying various cables and lines.

Could we use that raceway to add another Ethernet line?????

I would be happy to buy whatever hardware we need.

Anybody have any ideas?

We were quite impressed with Dr. Net. In Pattaya.

He has moved. New location: Still on Siam Country Club Road, but further down - just before the Lotus Express

on the same side of the road.

The number we have for him is 038 413 689.

He speaks excellent English and his shop is quite clean and cool.

I have tried phones, tablets, laptops, desktop for ebook reading but the Kindle is simply the best I have found. Comfortable for long reads, great screen outside and in decent inside light, looong battery life, storage for thousands of books. Very much recommend that he install Calibre on his desktop for ebook storage, management and to change format if the ebooks he gets are not mobi/Amazon format. Simple sideload from Calibre to Kindle via USB cable (included with Kindle).

I agree. Nothing I have seen, beats it. I liked mine so much that I bought one for my wife.

I bought mine directly from Amazon in the US. I bought another one, previously, and had it shipped over.

The BEST way to get a Kindle is to order directly from Amazon. The price is about 200 US and that included

shipping and Thai Customs Duty. Took about 5 days to get here.

Listing a few features of the pump, probably would have been helpful.

The pump is self priming. It usually takes about 3 seconds to prime, after changing tanks.

We have an attractive tap or faucet on the sink top...... about 12 inches from the regular water faucet.

The pump operates on a pressure switch. Turn the tap on - the pump goes on...... the pump goes off

when you turn the tap off.

It pumps a surprising amount of water in a very short time.

I have this type system. Three years ago, I had a friend from the USA, buy and send a Shurflo pump.

Shurflo is a 12 volt pump, used primarily in recreational vehicles and motorhomes in the US.

It cost about 75 dollars, US.

Next to it (under the sink) is a 10 amp 12 volt transformer.

We use the large bottles of water to pump out of........ with a separate faucet on top of the counter.

I was never able to find a similar pump in Thailand, although I looked.

The system works very, VERY well.