Posts under ‘tech’

I don’t know if I mentioned that we officially have a working laptop again. Office Depot agreed it wasn’t cost effective to fix the old one so they sent us a gift card the value of the old one and I was able to replace it with a similar model, actually a better model. This [...]

Our finances are looking a little less bleak. I won’t be buying any Murray Feiss lighting any time soon; but it seems Office Depot is more than capable of fixing our laptop without fee. They’re sending out a box for me to send it to them in and then they estimate about 14-20 days for [...]

The ongoing saga of the laptop is far from over. Friday morning I received a voice mail from Toshiba explaining that it would cost $325 for them to fix the laptop (which I paid $470 for) and that whether I wanted it fixed or not I should call them and let them know so they [...]

I was recently shown a website by DuskFire, who made several of the art pieces that I use on various websites, about a great search engine called TinEye which allows you to reverse search images that you’ve found in the hopes that you will find out if they’re copyrighted or free for use. Any time [...]

We’ve been having some issues over the past week, once again with the sleep disruption and just feeling more than a little drained and tetchy, it’s been a bad combination of things. The lack of computer with it’s prospects of “ruining us financially”, Max working through some rather sticky issues, and that certain time of [...]

Just quick. I still have the computer, but it’s near constant screen scrolling is making it very difficult to do anything. I’m almost finished with the back up though so soon it will be being sent to the original manufacturer and we’ll see what happens from there. It’s frustrating us on many levels. We hadn’t [...]

I’ve decided the best mothers day gift I could hope for would be a properly working computer. This one is at least not randomly scrolling and thanks to the people at the warranty place it will now turn on BUT it’s still not fixed, and apparently I have to send it into the OEM first [...]

How I was someone was offering laptop keyboards as promotional items right now. The computer is going screwier, which is impeding my ability to back things up. I’m sure I’ll get it. I have to, it’s just making getting things done that I need to do before I can send it in really difficult, and [...]

I was a big ball of stress, some of the residual is still with me but it’s finally starting to release. I had a day planned of catching up on some chores, making a big brunch for everyone, finishing some assignments and then looking for ways to fix the desktop computer. Then munchkin broke the [...]

I’ve been having some major issues with the Firefox browser lately, and have decided to try out Google Chrome. We’re still in the testing phase, much like someone might take a few weeks and see if conjugated linoleic acid is a good way for them to lose weight. I’ve already found a few things I [...]