Technology in our world is constantly evolving at an incredibly rapid rate. The consensus in the IT industry is to stay ahead of the curve. If you misstep the IT bus leaves you behind with the Pentium II’s. It leaves you stuck, trying to achieve the unachievable… stuck in a horrifying downward spiral… a desolate void… or a classic?
A CLASSIC!! Yes indeed. In the haste to become technologies next big thing many ideas, products, and applications fall to the wayside. When I was growing up, the kid on the block who had an Atari 2600 was king! If you were lucky enough to own a Tandy computer you were considered rich! Oh how I long for the days of playing Oregon Trail on an Apple II. For cruising down memory lane I decided to put together a few pictures and links to remind you of some of the “good old days”.
My all time favorite! Click on the picture to download a great Apple IIe emulator which included virtual floppy discs to play Oregon Trail!
The Atari 2600 even though graphics were nothing compared to the Arcade … it was damn cool playing Pac-man at home! Check out the AtariAge website for all things Atari!
If you are an older geek then you can never forget one of the most classic geek movies … WarGames. Would you like to play a game?
If you have any classic technology moments be sure to share them with us!
I tend to leave a lot of comments on various blogs that I read throughout my day, and typing in the same name, email and site URL takes quite a bit of time if you don’t automate it somehow.
Up until now, there’s been no way to show the Alexa rankings directly in Firefox… if you wanted to see them you had to either use the really great About This Site extension, or use the toolbar for Internet Explorer.
Download LogonStudio from Stardock (Free)
The market seems to be full of OS X Expose clones, but this is the first one that I’ve found that not only works really well, but has a ton of customization options. It’s called Switcher, and you might already be familiar since it’s been out for a while.
Outlook 2007 and earlier versions display the Outlook Today page when you first start up, but for most people it’s a fairly useless page since you just want to get to your email anyway.
From the unsure why you’d want to do this department comes this tip on how to completely disable tabbed browsing in Firefox. I’ve gotten quite a number of requests for this over the last few months, so I’m finally breaking down and writing an article about it.
Let’s say you have a directory with hundreds of files with the wrong file names, and you’d like to replace every filename containing test with prod. (this is a contrived example). We can easily do this with the “for” command in bash, combined with a little bit of bash goodness. Today we’ll learn how
If you’ve looked in Task Manager and wondered what on earth the jusched.exe process is and if you can turn it off, then you are in luck. This process is the Java Update scheduler, which is a process that wastes memory all the time just to check once a month whether there are new updates to Java.
Why does every single application insist on installing a completely useless icon into the system tray? It would be one thing if it performed some function, but it doesn’t do anything that you can’t do from your control panel. The least they could have done is have a dialog during the setup process
Quite a few people have written in asking me if it’s possible to turn off Aero when on battery power to save a few precious minutes of battery life. While I dispute the claim that Aero drains the battery life, there is now a utility that will automatically turn off Aero when in battery mode so you
