Okie tech Thread (Redbird: work, default, moving to)

[Synopsis]

What is the Lego celebration logo?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

What is the Lego celebration logo?

If you use Google much, you've seen how the letters are created differently for different celebrations, like for Halloween the letters were made of witches and goblins and jack-o-lanterns, or for the 4th of July, the letters were all fireworks-y. For the 50th year celebration of Legos, the letters were created like stacks of Legos. Then, if you hold the cursor over it, it will tell you what celebration it is. Handy, for various odd birthdays and such. And it's interesting to see what they come up with for various holidays, anniversaries, and events.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by karibear

I like talking computers, it's just that the problems I end up having don't ever seem to happen to anyone else. My local computer guy/techie friend says he always enjoys working on my stuff, he always ends up learning something totally new. He also says most of what goes wrong is stuff I could fix myself, if I could just SEE well enough to do it.

Speaking as a computer guy, it is more interesting to see new problems instead of the same old stuff all the time.

If you have low vision, there are a LOT of options available to you that could help you immensely.
Let me know what your specific issues are and I can probably get you going in the right direction.
I have a lot of experience in assistive technology...
I have 2 friends who are 100% blind that I help out all the time.
Both of them do more with their computers than the average user.

Originally Posted by karibear

Speaking of cyberweirdities, I just sent you another DM. Did you get it as a reply to your last one, or as a repeat of an earlier one? My puter burped in the middle and I have no idea what it did, but it doesn't show the right number of DMs sent/received any more.

There were 2 DMs.
One was just 2 quotes, the other was the actual message you sent, and I responded to it.

Originally Posted by karibear

And speaking of weird, the other night I was using both IE and Firefox. Google is my home page for both. When IE opened, it showed the regular Google logo, when Firefox opened, it showed the Lego celebration logo - just about 12 hours before it showed up on IE! I always thought there was only one Google, so why, if they both go to the same site, would one be different from the other?

If you're using the default FireFox homepage, it is Google, but it's a modified URL,
so it's slightly different. Also, it may have to do with your cache refreshing.

Besides.... Why would you want to use IE?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

Speaking as a computer guy, it is more interesting to see new problems instead of the same old stuff all the time.

If you have low vision, there are a LOT of options available to you that could help you immensely.
Let me know what your specific issues are and I can probably get you going in the right direction.
I have a lot of experience in assistive technology...
I have 2 friends who are 100% blind that I help out all the time.
Both of them do more with their computers than the average user.



There were 2 DMs.
One was just 2 quotes, the other was the actual message you sent, and I responded to it.



If you're using the default FireFox homepage, it is Google, but it's a modified URL,
so it's slightly different. Also, it may have to do with your cache refreshing.

Besides.... Why would you want to use IE?

It did it again! I just sent a reply to this and the connection died!

Anyway.

I use IE because I just don't like the look of Firefox. Not entirely rational, but there it is. But it has quirks, anyway. It's supposed to be disabled so that IE is the default, but links in emails always open into Firefox. Urls I can copy and paste into IE, much nicer. IE is also closer to my beloved old Netscape, which is no longer what it used to be, either.

As for my vision difficulties, I'll DM you another time. It's too depressing to even think about today. Or share with the entire world.

[redbird4848]

Don't feel bad, Kari, my vision and Don's is very bad, as we are both diabetics. I change the screen resolution, but that cuts off part of the screen, and causes the bar on the bottom to disappear, so I just change it back.

Besides, I like high resolution for the porn... DOH! did I say that out loud?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

Don't feel bad, Kari, my vision and Don's is very bad, as we are both diabetics. I change the screen resolution, but that cuts off part of the screen, and causes the bar on the bottom to disappear, so I just change it back.

Besides, I like high resolution for the porn... DOH! did I say that out loud?

Yes, you said it out loud!

But your vision is correctible, right? Or you wouldn't be able to drive. My 'official' diagnosis from the ophthalmologist is "Well, you aren't exactly blind, but you sure can't see sh*t." And there's no way [yet] to correct it.

[redbird4848]

Fanboy here, I took Synopse's and CG's advice and downloaded Firefox. I also have something called TweakNow Reg Cleaner which I am hoping will clean up my reg. We will see how fast Firefox really is...

It keeps saying "...sending this nonencrypted may allow a third party to read this..."

UPDATE: uh oh, now I'm screwed. I can't play youtube, it wants me to download the latest adobe, and then it says I have to close firefox.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

Fanboy here, I took Synopse's and CG's advice and downloaded Firefox. I also have something called TweakNow Reg Cleaner which I am hoping will clean up my reg.

That sounds scary!

Try this, my son seems to like it a lot:
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As for me, I like to do it manually.

Originally Posted by redbird4848

We will see how fast Firefox really is...

It keeps saying "...sending this nonencrypted may allow a third party to read this..."

You can make it stop saying that.

Also, FireFox is not particularly fast, but it is WAY more secure, and I like the fact that it's extensible.

Originally Posted by redbird4848

UPDATE: uh oh, now I'm screwed. I can't play youtube, it wants me to download the latest adobe, and then it says I have to close firefox.

Gonna need more details...
I have no problems with FF, YouTube or Adobe in either Windows or Linux.

Is it possible that you're blocking a pop-up?

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by karibear

Yes, you said it out loud!

But your vision is correctible, right? Or you wouldn't be able to drive. My 'official' diagnosis from the ophthalmologist is "Well, you aren't exactly blind, but you sure can't see sh*t." And there's no way [yet] to correct it.

I DM'ed you some ideas.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

Fanboy here, I took Synopse's and CG's advice and downloaded Firefox. I also have something called TweakNow Reg Cleaner which I am hoping will clean up my reg. We will see how fast Firefox really is...

It keeps saying "...sending this nonencrypted may allow a third party to read this..."

UPDATE: uh oh, now I'm screwed. I can't play youtube, it wants me to download the latest adobe, and then it says I have to close firefox.

It does sound like Firefox is blocking a popup. As for the latest Acrobat, you shouldn't need that for Youtube. Give me a call if you still have my number redbird and I can walk you through this.