T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

Old Computer Terms

BIT: A word used to describe computers, as in “Our son’s computer cost quite a bit.”

BOOT: What your friends give you because you spend too much time bragging about your computer skills.

BUG: What your eyes do after you stare at the big mean computer screen for more than 15 minutes. Also: what computer magazine companies do to you after they get your name on their mailing list.

CHIPS: The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat to avoid having to leave their keyboards for meals.

COPY: What you have to do during school tests because you spend too much time at the computer and not enough time studying.

CURSOR: What you turn into when you can’t get your computer to perform, as in “You $#% computer!”

DISK: What goes out in your back after bending over a computer keyboard for seventeen hours at a clip.

DUMP: The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after you install your computer.

ERROR: What you made the first time you walked into a computer showroom to “just look.”

EXPANSION UNIT: The new room you have to build on to your home to house your computer and all its peripherals.

FLOPPY: The condition of a constant computer user’s stomach due to lack of exercise and a steady diet of junk food (see Chips”).

HARDWARE: Tools, such as lawn mowers, rakes and other heavy equipment you haven’t laid a finger on since getting your computer.

IBM: The kind of missile your family members and friends would like to drop on your computer so you’ll pay attention to them again.

MENU: What you’ll never see again after buying a computer because you’ll be too poor to eat in a restaurant.

MONITOR: Often thought to be a word associated with computers, this word actually refers to those obnoxious kids who always want to see your hall pass at school.

PROGRAMS: Those things you used to look at on your television before you hooked your computer up to it.

RETURN: What a lot of people do with their computers after only a week and a half.

TERMINAL: A place where you can find buses, trains and really good deals on hot computers.

WINDOW: What you heave the computer out of after you accidentally erase a program that took you three days to set up.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

This is a really Cool Printer!

Some guy built a printer out of nothing but Legos and a felt tipped pen.

I’m not too sure how useful this printer is, but it sure is a Cool diversion from doing real work!

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Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

Need and all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction or editing? IcoFX is just the thing. With over 40 features that are readily available, you can do what you want with your Icons. If you can use Paint in Windows, you can use this.

My favorite feature was that as an .ico file, I can create a Favicon for my Blogs with no more than a few easy steps.

Click the pic to get to the download page.

This is a Two-fer, Useful AND Fun.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

If you want to extend the range of your home Wi-Fi connection, it’s really simple. Just watch the video and you will have more range than you do now.

Simple Wi-Fi Extender

I used a little different approach, I used Cardboard for a backing and a little spar to hold the ends in place, but it still works to increase your home Wi-Fi connection.

(click the image to view the video)

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

Analog Tetris???

Tetris analógico // Analogical Tetris from Esferobite-DSK on Vimeo.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

Soup Toys is a collection of more than 100 different toys for your Windows desktop and the latest version is completely free. Designed with players aged 5 to 12 in mind, but enjoyed globally by everyone, this physics sandbox game replicates a child’s wooden toy box full of toys, including basketballs, robots, wooden blocks, snowmen, cannons, flying bees and a pirate ship. With its open-ended design, the possibilities are endless and players are limited only by their imagination.

Great for your kids and grandkids, but you may just want to play some of these yourself when they aren’t around.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

Speechable, How Many Words are Your Picutres Worth?

Here is on I made in less than a minute using my “Dead Joe” picture from last Halloween.

It took longer to think of what to put IN the balloon than to actually MAKE the balloon.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

A little known fact about Bing (at least I didn’t know) is that there are little Easter Eggs contained within the Background pictures on their main screen.

You can’t see it right there, but do a mouseover the screen and you find little snippets like this

and this

and this

about the picture and/or things related one way or the other to the idea the picture represents.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

“It’s been a Tuff Week!”

Which way to go?

Check out the Old Lady’s Face

Waiting in line for an iPad

“Who’s bright idea was a Friday Golf Outing?”

“That Bear won’t find me Here!”

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!

T.G.I.F.

The end of another week has finally arrived and it’s time to take a break from all the headaches and problems of the past 7 days.

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I like to change Backgrounds and Screensavers for different Holidays and whatever my whim happens to be at the time.

I know, if you use Windows, you can create your own Slideshow Screensaver with your own pictures, but do you want to go through all the effort of setting it up for each and every time you want something different?

Free Slideshow Screensavers by Fun Utilities

You can pick from Pages of different Screensavers, mix and match them and get as many as you like, all for FREE.

Just a little something to help brighten your weekend and maybe put a little smile on your face to boot!

Smile! It’s Friday!