My kid sister with our T1-99/4A. While our Texas Instruments computer was technically not a toy, I spent so many hours of my childhood playing around on this thing that I think it qualifies for my Retro Toybox theme. It took cartridges, like Nintendo style cartridges, that held games such as Alpiner (climb the mountain while dodging snakes, cougars, giant egg laying … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Disappearing Emails, or How NOT to Use Gmail
I finally figured out why my emails have mysteriously been disappearing, part of the problem is me and part of the problem is with how Gmail works. I only started using Gmail in the past few months. I've had a Gmail address for years, but in the past I forwarded everything to Outlook, resident on my desktop PC and did all my email stuff from there. This set up was great for … [Read more...]
Adobe is Offering Programs For Free! {Tools for Bloggers}
Adobe has done something pretty awesome, they're made many of their old programs available for free download on their website. There are some pretty darn cool tools for bloggers in this list, on for anyone that likes to tinker with images. These may be only available for a limited time. I'd run over there and grab anything your interested in right away, just in case. EDIT … [Read more...]
Don’t Touch That Button! or how to get a computer virus without really trying…
I royally screwed up and managed to install some sort of lovely virus on our desktop computer system. It sort of feels like karma is having a laugh at me, I put out an April Fools prank threatening to retire and the next day my computer stops working. Ha. Somehow I'm not laughing. $50 dollars later (and a two night luxury vacation at the local computer shop) and my computer … [Read more...]