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In This Issue: Issue #102 
•   The Last of 2009
   
•   Tired of Nuisance Calls?
   
•   TrueCall Memory Card
•   On This Day
The Last of 2009
This is the last email from us at Mill House Park for 2009.

We are off with our families to spend a (hopefully) joyous Christmas and New Year.

We hope that you have enjoyed the emails that we have sent to you and have found them of interest. Judging by the volume of replies, many of you have. We look forward to helping you all in 2010.

So we wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

Tired of Nuisance Calls?
As seen on Dragons' Den TrueCall is the complete solution to all types of nuisance phone call - telemarketing, silent calls, calls from overseas call centres, fax calls, robocalls, market researchers, offensive or threatening calls, misdials, wrong numbers and recorded message calls.

TrueCall is about the size of a paperback book. It plugs into your phone line at home and checks every call you receive before letting your phone ring. TrueCall checks every call you receive before letting your phone ring.

It connects your friends, family and invited callers straight through but stops all sorts of nuisance calls - telemarketing, silent calls, market researchers, calls from overseas call centres, fax calls, offensive or threatening calls, misdials, wrong numbers and recorded message calls.

How does TrueCall work? When a call arrives, TrueCall immediately checks the caller's number. If it recognises them as a friend or a member of the user's family (the number is on their Star list), it lets them through as normal. If the caller's number is on the user's personal Zap list - a list of numbers of telemarketers or other nuisance callers TrueCall answers the call itself, and politely tells the caller that they're not interested in the call - their phone never rings!

If TrueCall doesn't recognise the caller's number, or the caller withholds their number, it asks them who they are, puts them on hold and only then rings the users phone.

When the user picks up, TrueCall tells them who's calling, and they can choose whether to accept the call, get TrueCall to take a message, or zap the caller (in which case TrueCall takes over, asks them to go away, and puts them on its Zap list so they can't disturb the user again!). At any time during an incoming call the user can press the star button on their phone to put the caller onto their Star list.

NB: Caller ID subcription with service provider is required.

Click here for TrueCall

TrueCall Memory Card
TrueCall Call Recorder 140 hour memory card that allows your TrueCall unit make audio recordings of some or all of your telephone calls.

You can also save and archive any important answering machine messages.

TrueCall Call Recorder is supplied on an SD Card - the same sort of memory card that is used in many digital cameras. It contains trueCall Message Centre software that allows you to copy your call recordings and messages you your PC where you can store, annotate and manage them.

In the UK you are allowed to make recordings of your private conversations provided that the recording is for your own use and can store 140 hours of telephone conversations and messages. But please check if not UK.

Click here for the TrueCall Memory Card

On This Day
1653 - Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.

1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time. (click image for more information)

1916 - Gregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.

1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.

1998 - The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.

2001 - In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden.

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