Because Sometimes Newer is Not Always Better

Today’s Cloudeight site pick has a good motto – and that motto is “OldVersion.com …Because sometimes newer isn’t always better”. I keep telling EB that. She wants to fire me and hire someone new … and younger. But younger isn’t always better either. With all the programs that have gone to the dark side and bundled up and… Read More »

How to Enable the F8 Key in Windows 8x

Windows 8 introduced a new boot loader that decreased the time that it takes Windows 8 to start. Unfortunately, in order to do this Microsoft needed to remove the ability to access the Advanced Boot Options screen when you press the F8 key when Windows starts. This meant that there was no easy and quick way to access… Read More »

The Old Man and His Dog

I see an old man walking slowly down the sidewalk with a small dog on a leash. The old man is hunched and barely able to walk. The small brown and white dog isn’t barking. He’s trying to walk as slowly as the old man holding the leash. They look like good friends. The old man is so… Read More »

Millions of Public Domain Images Now Available Online

Awesomeness: Millions Of Public Domain Images Being Put Online Here’s some nice news. Kalev Leetaru has been liberating a ton of public domain images from books and putting them all on Flickr. He’s been going through Internet Archive scans of old, public domain books, isolating the images, and turning them into individual images. Because, while the books and images are all… Read More »