http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/14/reference-question-of-the-week-1812/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Sat, 18 May 2013 18:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/14/reference-question-of-the-week-1812/#comment-5571 Brandy Stillman Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:45:42 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2914#comment-5571 Also too late in the particular case, but you can download Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for free to do the recording and output to MP3 or WAV. And, depending upon her phone (most have a standard stereo jack — think headphone/earbuds) a $7 stereo audio cable (like people use to connect their iPods to their car stereos) from RadioShack to connect from her headphone to a computers mic input will do the trick. She would then just play the voicemail from the phone like she were listening to it and click record in Audacity to capture it while it is playing. If for some reason her phone did not have the right jack, most carriers let you forward the message to someone on your network; if she knew someone that had a standard stereo jack on their phone. Glad though you were able to find her a computer shop that would do it.

]]> http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/01/14/reference-question-of-the-week-1812/#comment-5568 Chris Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:31:42 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2914#comment-5568 Too late in this particular case, but YouMail.com (free) replaces the default voicemail provider, and allows for you to retrieve voicemails from a web interface, allows them to be sent as attachments to emails, and had apps for Android phones. Quite handy. But her best best with the default AT&T voicemail is the headphone jack to PC/tape deck line in.

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