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Meryl K. Evans

Download Retro Games

When I was 13, I loved to walk about three blocks to Showbiz Pizza Place to play video games. The coolest and most expensive game at the time was Dragon’s Lair. Its animated scenes looked nothing like the games we played then… Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, and Pole Position. Even with all the fancy [...]

Firefox Secrets

This is the first Firefox book I’ve read, so it won’t have a comparison to any of the others - as a few books hit the market soon after Firefox started nipping at Internet Explorer’s market share of the browser market.
Chapter 1 kicks off the book with an introduction explaining why Firefox is a first-rate [...]

Software That ‘Improves’ Your Writing

meryl.net articles: When Simple Words Work Better has a review of a program that is supposed to help you improve your writing. The following is what got me started.
It’s stuff like this that steers me away from fancy words whether or not I know what they mean. Say what? The title of the paper in [...]

The First Mile

Zork. Remember it? I think I hear a mixture of, “What the hey?” and “Oh, yeah! Wow, that brings back memories.” For the former group, Zork was a text-based adventure game from INFOCOM — one of the the first interactive computer games. It resembles the Choose Your Own Adventure books only instead of flipping pages, [...]

BlogCritics

BlogCritics celebrates its third birthday on August 12 and it has served over ten million readers. The site is exactly what the name says… Blogs + Critics = Blogcritics. All the folks who post are bloggers with their own blogs and they are critics on movies, TV, books, culture, news, and more.
The front page has [...]

Software Upgrades Aren’t Always Better

Amen to Stop! An IT Spending Manifesto! When my daughter was getting into AOL instant messaging (AIM) and using all the cool add-ons, I looked for more as it’s a great way to learn about extending applications. While doing research, I learned that if you wanted to use AIM themes, you don’t want to [...]

Free Offers For Real?

You may have seen or heard about these sites. They say send your friends your link and if x number of friends sign up for the free offer, you get the cool gadget for free. The cool gadget started with iPods and has grown to include Mac minis, flat screen monitors, desktop PCs, photo iPods, [...]

Grafedia

Whoa. I am surprised I haven’t come across Grafedia till now. But then again, I have not seen any graffiti with blue writing and an underline to indicate it’s a “link.” It’s like a Web treasure hunt for mobile phones and handheld devices.
Ms. Graffiti Writer takes a picture of something she sees or creates and [...]

Book Reading Lists Around The Web

Reading books isn’t limited to summer, but “summer reading lists” are popular as Americans go on vacation during the summer and take books to read on the plane and sitting by the beach or pool. I read year-round as I’m constantly reviewing books, but I enjoyed reading these two books as they are great poolside [...]

Avvenu

It seems like a new PC remoting software launches weekly, especially since more workers take their work home, on trips, to the local coffee shop, just about anywhere. Instead of having to copy all of your files and taking them with you, you sign up for PC remoting or buy software and just access [...]

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