These Old Games

We've got a lot of Chromebooks going on here. This one is my daughter's Lenovo 300e which is ostensibly to be used for school work a...

I have several Chromebooks to support my websites and my kid's educational needs. I will be looking at the Acer CB311 series of machines...

A few posts ago, I mentioned how the cloud saved many of my books in digital form. On logging into DriveThruRPG, I suddenly realized how man...

Good Evening, I recently purchased some wonderful software from Inkwell Ideas and came across a little hiccup. Under XFCE, for some reason, ...

In December 2010, I started a website called Pretender to the Power. I was recently back to school and thought I had a little free time on m...

In December of 2010, I started a website called Pretender to the Power . I was recently back to school and thought I had a little free time ...

There are many guides to installing Linux on a Chromebook . What I don't see are too many guides on what needs to be done afterwards. Us...

This morning, I had some trouble with my version of XFCE on my Chromebook. Tab-Alt stopped working, the menu bar had vanished, the programs ...

If you use Duolingo on a chromebook, you may have microphone problems. I tinkered around with the settings and chromebooks do not allow web...

Installing Minecraft on a Chromebook is simple. Get Crouton, install Saucy and XFCE then get stuck. Why stuck? You need to change the per...

Years ago, I wrote a terminal cheat sheet over on  pretendertothepower.com  I think it is time for an update. One command that I misund...

I have recently been suffering from some lockups and crashes. The need for a task manager was incredible and I lamented the lack of one. ...

If you are using Crouton on a Chromebook, there will come a day where you ask "How do I right click?" With Chrome, you tap with t...

My questioning mind. Google Drive stores files locally. I wonder where? Could I find those files and drop them on a jump drive to edit else...

As my multi day test of my Chromebook’s offline I noticed that I have some curious behaviors. Dropbox happily stores and updates informatio...

I am currently offline today, but still wanted to do a little writing. Google Drive is an excellent writing tool and the offline capabiliti...

For Christmas, my wife and I exchanged Chromebooks. I received the Acer C720 and she the HP Pavilion. We were replacing my Asus EEE and her...

I opted for the Unity interface for Ubuntu.  HowToGeek  has a great set of instructions. At the end of the install, you have a very basic U...

This weeks edition of Just 5 Things covers Google Drive. 1. Google Drive is a cross-platform cloud storage solution. 2. Google Drive sup...