I am looking at this screen through computer glasses, and when they come off, on will go my progressive lens glasses. I think insurance has helped us a bit with our glasses, though I'm not 100% sure, as we did pretty well finding good deals before we had insurance for vision.
With another potential job change coming up, and the possibility that we may not have the same insurance we do now, we may lose our vision insurance.
I was reading some retirement advice that suggested that you might be able to get a free eye exam by ophthalmologists that volunteer to do them for those that can't afford them and need an exam. If this is you, and you are over 65, it suggests that you go take a look at EyeCareAmerica.org to find an ophthalmologist that will offer free eye exams in your area.
Updated 11/28/18
Showing posts with label AARP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AARP. Show all posts
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Where are the Best Jobs for Seniors?
Unemployment statistics always seem to be negative and at the same time, more seniors are finding it necessary to supplement their retirement income, or make career changes if not quite at retirement age. It's possible with current economic trends that more retirees will be working to supplement income.
AARP at their website, aarp.org, provides a list of the top 50 jobs for career change for those over 50. The top 10 in their list of 50 includes:
Updated 11/28/18
AARP at their website, aarp.org, provides a list of the top 50 jobs for career change for those over 50. The top 10 in their list of 50 includes:
- Home Health Aid
- Personal and Home Care Aide
- Computer Software Engineer
- Medical Assistant
- Network Systems and Data Communications Analyst
- Dental Assistant
- Self-enrichment Education Teacher
- Compliance Officer
- Dental Hygienist
- Veterinary Technologist
Updated 11/28/18
Thursday, December 15, 2011
How to Use Motorola WX345 Features
I notice that many of you come here to learn how to set up playlists on your Motorola WX345. I have more help for your Motorola WX345 here.
What you may not know is that Consumer Cellular has provided some tutorials through Youtube to help you with your phone...they don't provide anything about setting up playlists yet, but they do have the following:
My husband and I had Motorola WX345 phones from Consumer Cellular for a long time until we upgraded. At this update I don't know if they are still available. But we were pleased with this basic phone, and know that if no longer available from Consumer Cellular, they have another to offer. We love their no-contract phone service price, and AARP discount we receive.
Updated 11/28/18
What you may not know is that Consumer Cellular has provided some tutorials through Youtube to help you with your phone...they don't provide anything about setting up playlists yet, but they do have the following:
- Video Tour for Use of the Motorola WX345
- How to take and send pictures with the Motorola WX345
- How to Access the Internet with the Motorola WX345
- How to use the Address Book on the Motorola WX345
- How to Send a Text Message with the Motorola WX345
- How to Insert a Memory Card, Sim Card and Battery into the Motorola WX345
My husband and I had Motorola WX345 phones from Consumer Cellular for a long time until we upgraded. At this update I don't know if they are still available. But we were pleased with this basic phone, and know that if no longer available from Consumer Cellular, they have another to offer. We love their no-contract phone service price, and AARP discount we receive.
Updated 11/28/18
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
How to Set Up Motorola WX345 Playlists
One thing I noticed when we received our Motorola WX345 cell phones is the lack of explanation in the manual as to how to set things up. The phone is capable of quite a bit for what we paid (nothing with Consumer Cellular's plan).
My husband and I wanted to figure out how to use the "playlist" feature, and it took a little doing, but once set up, it's great! I'll explain in a minute...but first want to say that I found Consumer Cellular in our AARP magazine, as they are already VERY low priced and have good coverage using the ATT network, and on top of it offer an AARP members a discount.
We waited patiently for our contract with the service we had to end in order not to be penalized, then joined Consumer Cellular...a service with no contract, and easy-to-follow website, and reasonable prices with minutes my husband and I can share between our phones....we are saving $30 a month over our previous plan, some may save more depending upon what service and plan you have. You can get $10 off your first bill, and so can I, if you contact me with a comment I'll tell you how...your comments are moderated, so won't post if you don't want them to, I'll just find them and respond to you personally so give me a way to contact you...I don't spam, I promise...I'm just happy to help someone else save during times like this when things are so challenging.
What I love most is that we signed up for the least expensive plan, and can upgrade it and downgrade as needed, any time. They even have a feature that warns you when you are reaching your minutes limit so you can upgrade as needed and thereby save over what it would cost to pay for the extra minutes individually. We are not heavy cell phone users, but even if we were, we'd be saving LOTS over our previous plan.
So, back to the Motorola WX345....it's the free phone being offered right now, with a reasonable charge to activate. We chose the free one not only because it is free, but the battery life is amazing. However, the manual is VERY basic, not bad, but leaves out some helpful details, and we've done a lot of discovering on our own.
The phone has an MP3 player, and 1 GB of memory, so we purchased microSD cards to expand the memory a lot in order to save music, and in my case, music and audio books. But how to listen? I started out by saving my music and audio books directly on the microSD from my computer to the phone with a usb cable (another extra we purchased)...but had to listen to each song and section one by one...no continuous play...right from the SD card.
So I got the manual out to try figuring out the playlists. It got me started, and the rest I figured out myself. Here's how it's done, for those of you who, like me, find it a little challenging to figure out technical things:
Before you start, you'll want to have some mp3's saved on your phone in the phone storage itself (it only has 1 GB) or on a microSD card (I believe you can get as much memory as your like...we got 8 GB). They aren't hard to insert into the phone.
Here's how to set up playlists:
1) Open the phone and go to "menu" by selecting black button surrounded by "silver" square on top of keypad.
2) Go to "multimedia"...should be the top left corner icon on the screen, select
3) Go down to "music player", select
4) Go to "my playlists", select
5) Select "options" by pressing the button on the top left of your keypad
6) Go to "new playlist" and select
7) Type the name of the playlist you want to make on the screen then press the select button...."done" should be highlighted, select again.
8) You will now see the title of your new playlist on the screen.
9) To load your music or other mp3 selections into the playlist, select the playlist title, select "load", and you will have the option to get music from your phone or SDcard storage, choose the location where you have stored your music files.
10) Go to the file with the music you want to load and select it, then select the mp3's individually one by one, and select - it will say "done" as each is loaded to your playlist. When you've loaded all the songs you want to, back out, or close the phone.
How to play:
1) Repeat steps 1-4 above
2) Choose the playlist you want to play and select
3) Select "load"
4) Select the first song or whatever song you want start playing from
5) Select play
And now I'm going to have to tell you how to do the settings so that it will play continuously through the songs and repeat them or stop at the end of your list.
How to set up Playlist settings:
1) When you have chosen a playlist you'd like to play following the steps just above, select "options" using the upper left button
2) Go down the list to "settings" (it is out of view on the screen) and select.
3) Select "player settings"
a) You can select "all" or "off" depending upon whether you want the playlist to play again when it gets to the end or not.
b) You can turn "shuffle" on or off, I think this means that the music plays in random order, but have it off, so don't know.
c) Here's an IMPORTANT setting - in order to keep the music playing when the phone is closed, you need "Background play" ON...otherwise music will stop when you close the phone.
That's about all you need to know, you'll find that you can fast forward and back using the right and left side of the "silver thingy" surrounding the "select" button at the top - first go to "now playing" by pressing the top of the silver square, and from there you can stop what you are listening to by pressing the button in the center of the silver square, or you can fast forward and back using left and right of the silver button.
If you stop the music and close the phone, return to "now playing" as described just above, and continue from there any time, it will save your place...great for audio books. If a call comes in, or message, it will pause for a moment and continue when your done.
That's about it for now, I hope this helps you figure out how to set up and use playlists on your WX345 Motorola Cell Phone and play music or other mp3's with the flip phone closed.
Updated 11/28/18
My husband and I wanted to figure out how to use the "playlist" feature, and it took a little doing, but once set up, it's great! I'll explain in a minute...but first want to say that I found Consumer Cellular in our AARP magazine, as they are already VERY low priced and have good coverage using the ATT network, and on top of it offer an AARP members a discount.
We waited patiently for our contract with the service we had to end in order not to be penalized, then joined Consumer Cellular...a service with no contract, and easy-to-follow website, and reasonable prices with minutes my husband and I can share between our phones....we are saving $30 a month over our previous plan, some may save more depending upon what service and plan you have. You can get $10 off your first bill, and so can I, if you contact me with a comment I'll tell you how...your comments are moderated, so won't post if you don't want them to, I'll just find them and respond to you personally so give me a way to contact you...I don't spam, I promise...I'm just happy to help someone else save during times like this when things are so challenging.
What I love most is that we signed up for the least expensive plan, and can upgrade it and downgrade as needed, any time. They even have a feature that warns you when you are reaching your minutes limit so you can upgrade as needed and thereby save over what it would cost to pay for the extra minutes individually. We are not heavy cell phone users, but even if we were, we'd be saving LOTS over our previous plan.
So, back to the Motorola WX345....it's the free phone being offered right now, with a reasonable charge to activate. We chose the free one not only because it is free, but the battery life is amazing. However, the manual is VERY basic, not bad, but leaves out some helpful details, and we've done a lot of discovering on our own.
The phone has an MP3 player, and 1 GB of memory, so we purchased microSD cards to expand the memory a lot in order to save music, and in my case, music and audio books. But how to listen? I started out by saving my music and audio books directly on the microSD from my computer to the phone with a usb cable (another extra we purchased)...but had to listen to each song and section one by one...no continuous play...right from the SD card.
So I got the manual out to try figuring out the playlists. It got me started, and the rest I figured out myself. Here's how it's done, for those of you who, like me, find it a little challenging to figure out technical things:
Before you start, you'll want to have some mp3's saved on your phone in the phone storage itself (it only has 1 GB) or on a microSD card (I believe you can get as much memory as your like...we got 8 GB). They aren't hard to insert into the phone.
Here's how to set up playlists:
1) Open the phone and go to "menu" by selecting black button surrounded by "silver" square on top of keypad.
2) Go to "multimedia"...should be the top left corner icon on the screen, select
3) Go down to "music player", select
4) Go to "my playlists", select
5) Select "options" by pressing the button on the top left of your keypad
6) Go to "new playlist" and select
7) Type the name of the playlist you want to make on the screen then press the select button...."done" should be highlighted, select again.
8) You will now see the title of your new playlist on the screen.
9) To load your music or other mp3 selections into the playlist, select the playlist title, select "load", and you will have the option to get music from your phone or SDcard storage, choose the location where you have stored your music files.
10) Go to the file with the music you want to load and select it, then select the mp3's individually one by one, and select - it will say "done" as each is loaded to your playlist. When you've loaded all the songs you want to, back out, or close the phone.
How to play:
1) Repeat steps 1-4 above
2) Choose the playlist you want to play and select
3) Select "load"
4) Select the first song or whatever song you want start playing from
5) Select play
And now I'm going to have to tell you how to do the settings so that it will play continuously through the songs and repeat them or stop at the end of your list.
How to set up Playlist settings:
1) When you have chosen a playlist you'd like to play following the steps just above, select "options" using the upper left button
2) Go down the list to "settings" (it is out of view on the screen) and select.
3) Select "player settings"
a) You can select "all" or "off" depending upon whether you want the playlist to play again when it gets to the end or not.
b) You can turn "shuffle" on or off, I think this means that the music plays in random order, but have it off, so don't know.
c) Here's an IMPORTANT setting - in order to keep the music playing when the phone is closed, you need "Background play" ON...otherwise music will stop when you close the phone.
That's about all you need to know, you'll find that you can fast forward and back using the right and left side of the "silver thingy" surrounding the "select" button at the top - first go to "now playing" by pressing the top of the silver square, and from there you can stop what you are listening to by pressing the button in the center of the silver square, or you can fast forward and back using left and right of the silver button.
If you stop the music and close the phone, return to "now playing" as described just above, and continue from there any time, it will save your place...great for audio books. If a call comes in, or message, it will pause for a moment and continue when your done.
That's about it for now, I hope this helps you figure out how to set up and use playlists on your WX345 Motorola Cell Phone and play music or other mp3's with the flip phone closed.
Updated 11/28/18
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