Happy Friday Funday! This is a good day to unplug for a bit, and just enjoy the world around you without distractions. Unplug your computer and disable your network adapter, and put your feet up. No news, no email, no nothing!
But wait! Chrome shows you this annoying little dinosaur graphic.
Watch closely, and tap your space bar.
Whoa! The dino starts running!
Tap your space bar again to jump over the obstacles that come flying at you!
Eventually Chrome will win, and the game will end when you crash in to something. Just refresh your browser to play again!
I couldn’t find any similar feature in the “No Internet” pages of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge or Opera. (But I did find a VPN option in Opera – that’s for another post.)
This is a cautionary tale! Paul Manafort’s attorneys filed a document that was improperly redacted. You can open the actual document (link below), copy the redacted lines and paste them in to a Word document to reveal the text underneath.
The black highlighter tool is not effective for redaction. Use the actual redact tool.
Microsoft recently updated their Snipping tool, now called “Snip & Sketch.” You can see a little overview here. What gets me about this new tool is the icon to save the file. It is the usual 3.5″ floppy disk. Like on EVERY program.
But kids today have never even SEEN a floppy disk. I wonder when this icon will be updated.
Oh well. I needed to lean what this means:
They will need to learn what this means:
However, many modern sharing programs, like MS Office 365 Online are doing away with the “Save” feature altogether. Perhaps there is no reason to change the icon, because the feature will just go go away.
