MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
Hey Kiddies,
Commodore 64 here with a quick how-to for Photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesn’t fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can set [...]
March 1, 2009 - 12:34 am
Tags: Geeky Goodness, Pics
Posted in Geeky Humor | 4 comments
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Almost 3 weeks in to the New Year and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off?
Yeah right we have even more emails today and I am studying for my 2008 Microsoft Certs! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored content [...]
A reader from Idaho was seriously freaked out after a late night at the computer and sent us a picture of their task manager in a strange state.
They asked for their identity to be with held so here is a screen-shot of a random person’s task manager in a similar mode.
Have you seen this before? [...]
Jodi writes in:
I wasn’t sure who I should contact about this, so i am sending this to you. As of late, word attachments coming from my friend on a Windows XP Machine appear as “winmail.dat” files.
When I try to open these, the text runs about 150pp long, (it’s a 4page doc) and the [...]
December 15, 2008 - 12:00 am
Tags: Geeky Goodness, Pics
Posted in Geeky Humor, Questions | No comments
I got a message from Kevin Rose via Pownce a little while back and it was a link to a series of pictures created to look like a children’s book. More specifically a book explaining how babies are made. But get this twist it was turned into an ad for Windows Home Server!
That’s right I [...]
November 25, 2008 - 9:00 am
Tags: Question
Posted in Questions | 14 comments
We got this message from Fred early in the AM. I guess its great for him that we don’t sleep past 7AM anymore!
I am using Outlook 2007. When I get email the pictures show as Red boxes with “X”’s in them. I used to be able to right click on the boxes and download the [...]
October 24, 2008 - 12:00 am
Tags: Question
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 4 comments
Good Morning,
I just saw the link to ask you a question and here is mine. Admin do you know of a way I can configure Vista to let me know if a specific error or event happens while I am AFK?
I hear Vista can hit me on my Blackberry when an event occurs and it’s [...]
September 20, 2008 - 12:00 am
Tags: Geeky Goodness, Pics
Posted in Geeky Humor | 7 comments
This guy’s got the right idea, I hope everyone gets the same laugh out of this one that I got, I mean c’mon, this can’t all be about computers! This is a solution to a common problem for any male, married computer geek. Just get a laptop sleeve to match!
Check out the solution we found [...]
November 24, 2007 - 6:42 pm
Thats funny for so many different reasons.
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November 24, 2007 - 1:42 pm
Thats funny for so many different reasons.
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November 25, 2007 - 5:16 pm
Georgie sent me!
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November 25, 2007 - 5:31 pm
Georgie sent me..
hahaha i know Georgie will asked more than one question…hahaha funny^
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November 25, 2007 - 12:16 pm
Georgie sent me!
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November 25, 2007 - 12:31 pm
Georgie sent me..
hahaha i know Georgie will asked more than one question…hahaha funny^
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November 25, 2007 - 8:54 pm
Georgie sent me to!
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November 25, 2007 - 3:54 pm
Georgie sent me to!
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November 26, 2007 - 1:31 pm
Pretty darn amusing.
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November 26, 2007 - 8:31 am
Pretty darn amusing.
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November 27, 2007 - 11:36 pm
wOW I have a new fav comic and a new fav tech site. Thanx
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November 27, 2007 - 6:36 pm
wOW I have a new fav comic and a new fav tech site. Thanx
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