Here's a game for someone to write: You know how the cellphone zombies at your job hang out near windows, pacing in small circles of random diameter.
OK, the object of the game is to traverse a window-facing hall while avoiding the cellphone yappers. If you bump one wearing a tie, you're fired. If you bump one wearing a hawaiian shirt, it just slows you down. You get the idea.
One word: MacroExpress!
I live in CA, he's in MN. First I bought him an iMac and that worked for a couple of years until his ISP stopped supporting Macs. Don't ask me how this happened, I even hired a Mac specialist to drive 50 miles to try to fix the problem but no good. The ISP even 'tried' but to no avail.
OK, heres my present solution fo him: A cheap Windows-based laptop which he is able to physically mail back to me when its so screwed up that even Timbuktu won't work. Besides Timbuktu, I've loaded the Opera browser, FoxMail (OperaMail made his head explode), PhotoAlbum 3 (so the kids can send him CDs), AdAware and Norton AntiVirus.
FoxMail is configured to throw away anything that has a non-jpg attachment; but if I had to do over again I'd probably go with a webmail service.
MOST IMPORTANTLY-- I've installed MacroExpress so that all he has to do to is press a single SFkey to do major functions! He loves this! Maybe I'll sell the macros if there is anybody interested.
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OK, the object of the game is to traverse a window-facing hall while avoiding the cellphone yappers. If you bump one wearing a tie, you're fired. If you bump one wearing a hawaiian shirt, it just slows you down. You get the idea.
Call it Nokia-Lokia??
One word: MacroExpress! I live in CA, he's in MN. First I bought him an iMac and that worked for a couple of years until his ISP stopped supporting Macs. Don't ask me how this happened, I even hired a Mac specialist to drive 50 miles to try to fix the problem but no good. The ISP even 'tried' but to no avail. OK, heres my present solution fo him: A cheap Windows-based laptop which he is able to physically mail back to me when its so screwed up that even Timbuktu won't work. Besides Timbuktu, I've loaded the Opera browser, FoxMail (OperaMail made his head explode), PhotoAlbum 3 (so the kids can send him CDs), AdAware and Norton AntiVirus. FoxMail is configured to throw away anything that has a non-jpg attachment; but if I had to do over again I'd probably go with a webmail service. MOST IMPORTANTLY-- I've installed MacroExpress so that all he has to do to is press a single SFkey to do major functions! He loves this! Maybe I'll sell the macros if there is anybody interested.