Posts Tagged ‘games’

Top 5 Things to Do on a Snow Day

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Hooray!!!!!!!  Schools are closed.  Businesses aren’t opening either.  Snow storms have already passed through or are on their way.  You find yourself with an entire “extra day” to do with as you please, yet you aren’t quite sure what to do.

Well computer fans, you are in luck.  Here is a little list to get you going on this FREEzing Friday.

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FollowFriday – Friday June 25, 2010 – GAMING DEALS

Friday, June 25th, 2010
FollowFriday : On any given Friday, thousands upon thousands (maybe even millions) of Twitter users enter the hashtag #FollowFriday (or #FF), followed by one or more “mentions.” The idea is for users to share the names of other “interesting people” that they follow and think you should too. These recommendations serve as positive comment cards for the digitally inclined.


JumpstartMyPC.com has decided to bring FollowFriday to our blog. Read on and, if you are so inclined, add these “interesting people” to your own list.

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Addictive Games You Can Play in 5 Minutes or Under

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Games and personal computers have been linked since the earliest days of computing.  My earliest interactions with computers were the hours spent gaming on the Radio Shack Tandy Color Computer, the Atari , the Apple IIe and numerous other systems.  Movies released during these groundbreaking years, like Tron, War Games and even Big made an entire generation aware of computer gaming.  Today, the platforms are more advanced, the technology has improved like we only imagined it could and games are available everywhere.  From Facebook to the XBOX360, you can kill 1 minute or thousands of hours trying to beat that high score or simply make the hours go by.

Today, we will look at a few of the most addictive games I have played in the last year.  These are very basic, easily accessible games that you can play in just a few minutes, if you can walk away after you’ve started.

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