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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Set Your Screen Saver to your World of Warcraft Screenshots

Pressing the ‘Print Screen’ key while playing World of Warcraft saves a picture of whatever is on screen. This is a great way to memorialize great moments of game-play.

Of course, if you’re like me, you’re never really going to see these pictures again. So set your Windows screen-saver to display them using the following instructions.

  1. Right-click on a blank space on your Desktop
  2. Select ‘Properties’ from the little context menu that appears. You will see a window like this one: Display Properties

There Are No Winners

Webkinz appears to have a server down, and shows the children this very unfortunate error message.

There are no winners

Now the children know, “There are no winners”.

How to Install Python on Windows

  1. Download and run the Python Windows Installer from http://www.python.org/download/
  2. Add the Python home directory to your PATH environment variable.
    Right click 'My Computer'
    Select 'Properties'
    Choose the 'Advanced' tab
    The bottom panel is named 'System Variables'
    In the list below 'System Variables', select 'Path'
    Press 'Edit'
    The 'Edit System Vaiable' dialog will appear.
    Copy this text:
    C:\Python25;