Archive for February 2007
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Online Maps Warning
February 26th, 2007 |I just survived and thoroughly enjoyed a weekend-long family celebration. Today, I learned that some people didn’t make it to the party because Mapquest didn’t have the right information or street for the location of the party. I was horrified. I used Google Maps and it was perfect in giving directions and showing the location [...]
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Dream Day Wedding Review
February 22nd, 2007 |It’s been a weird week. I’ve been getting up way too early most mornings as my family prepares a large celebration this weekend. So I thought it appropriate to play and do a review of Dream Day Wedding. No, it’s not a wedding we’re preparing for… but it sure involves almost as much work.
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Dream Day Wedding PC Game Review
February 22nd, 2007 |I’m an old married woman, but playing Dream Day Wedding had me reflecting back on my own wedding day, grateful there were no crises. Dream Day Wedding combines I Spy-style puzzles with Choose-A-Story and the match card game. Search for things the bride, Jenny, needs in the usual settings from the florist and the bakery to [...]
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Virtual Villagers 2
February 21st, 2007 |I’m buried with the final preparations for a big family event happening all weekend. I’ll write about it at another time. In the meantime, I posted a review of Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children, a follow up to the popular Virtual Villagers. The only recent I mentioned this here is because some of you only get [...]
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Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children PC Game Review
February 21st, 2007 |This is my first encounter with the Virtual Villagers, but not the first time I’ve played a SIM-style game. I’ve played Populous, Sim City, The Sims — years ago. This game’s objective is to complete the 16 puzzles with other tasks along the way. This game stands out from many adventure games in that every [...]
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Apple II for Pocket PC
February 20th, 2007 |I have many fond memories using the Apple ][+ and Apple //e. Funny, I have little or no memories of early Windows PCs. Gnome's Gaming on the Go reports that those with Pocket PCs/Windows Mobile devices can play Apple games with the appleCE Apple II emulator. I dumped those Apple ][+ and //e programs long [...]
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Handheld Devices and the New Daylight Savings Time
February 19th, 2007 |Users of most PalmOS devices have a simple fix for daylight savings time without downloading a thing. The instructions come from the Is Palm Help Forums: Tap Prefs from the Home/Applications screen. Tap Date & Time. Tap Location. Tap Edit List from the down down list. Tap to select your location in the list. Tap Edit to get to the Edit [...]
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Expensive Books, Text Messaging and Snail Mail
February 16th, 2007 |Today’s entry is a hodgepodge of stuff I found or experienced this week. This slideshow displays the 10 most expensive books in 2006. Note these are old books not books published in 2006. An entire book comes from text messaging. Though it’s ez 2 read txt msgs, but 2 read 100s of pgs in txt msg-speak? Hard [...]
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Sales Emails from Ecommerce Sites
February 15th, 2007 |You might allow some e-commerce sites to send you emails with sales and specials. I do. But some go overboard and give you no way to cut down the number of emails you receive. One such site sends emails more than once a week with a sale and instead of drawing me to the site [...]
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Read Books Fast and Efficiently
February 14th, 2007 |lifehack.org has an excellent (as usual) entry on efficient reading. I remember coming across classic book How to Read a Book, which covers the different levels of reading and how to reach them — “from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, [...]
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