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Caroline Toews

technolass@allovertheplace.ca

<p>I was recently reminded that I don&#39;t have a profile here so let&#39;s fix that. I&#39;m quite random in what I post. I love reading, tech stuff, and food. I don&#39;t do politics, so if you&#39;re looking for someone who stays out of the debates and other things, that would be me. I have a hamster named Marshmallow, so from time to time I&#39;ll mention things she&#39;s done. Any other questions, feel free to reach out and ask.</p>

Posts

  • Post #4249688

    Many of you already know this, but it&#39;s now official. In a couple of hours I will be taking posession of an 8-month-old callico kitty! Currently her name is Olive, but I&#39;m going to be changing it to Cara, which is Italian for beloved. I got to hold her for a little bit a few minutes ago and now she&#39;s on her way to the vet to get her first shots. She&#39;s fixed, so I won&#39;t have to go through the howling and youling that I went through with my last female cat. I got all the suppli...

  • Post #4249687

    I just had to give Cara some antibiotics. It&#39;s definitely a challenge to keep 4 feet and a mouthfull of teeth out of the way, while trying to get her to open her mouth so that I can get the syringe in and push the plunger. That&#39;s almost a two-person job! She&#39;s not very happy with me at the moment now though. She slept with me all night last night and she&#39;s been my little shadow, but I suspect she&#39;s going to stay clear of me for the next little while.

  • Post #4249686

    I get to make my very first #Caturday post! Cara was curled up in my wheelchair and I just couldn&#39;t resist!

  • Post #4249685

    RE: https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/116982995425330910 This is my area of the city.

  • Post #4249684

    I haven&#39;t had to leave my apartment since I got Cara on Friday. Tomorrow I have to go out. I&#39;m trying to figure out a way to make sure that Cara doesn&#39;t try to run out the door as I&#39;m leaving. I don&#39;t want to put her in her carrier for the times when I&#39;m out, but I definitely need to find some way to temporarily keep her in here as I&#39;m leaving.

  • Post #4249683

    Cara is turning into a very affectionate kitty. I&#39;ve gotten the exposed belly more than once now and in the middle of the night she crawled up on me and started nuzzling my ear. I still feel bad having to put her in her carrier if someone&#39;s coming over so that she doesn&#39;t run out, and for leaving her alone yesterday and again today. Her mews are so pathetic! I thik that most of this comes from the fact that she&#39;s still so new and I&#39;m afraid that she&#39;ll end up not bonding...

  • Post #4249682

    Sorry everyone but I just have to tell another Cara story before I go to bed. I&#39;m sitting here on my couch with my wireless keyboard in my lap and my headphones on. Cara apparently didn&#39;t want me to have my headphones on because I wasn&#39;t focusing on giving her attention. So, she decided that she&#39;d attempt to get my headphones off by crawling onto my head, while meowing at me the entire time. This cat is crazy! SMILE!

  • Post #1122545

    @Marvella@dragonscave.space That&#39;s the traditional Google Play Store where you can download and install Android apps. For example, you could get the Kindle app and install it. These days it works quite well.

  • Post #1122544

    @Bruce I&#39;ll tell you what&#39;s going wrong today. I can&#39;t access my online Social Security account. Guess why? If you guessed that it&#39;s because of my phone number change you&#39;d be correct. I updated my number with Social Security, but they don&#39;t have the ability to change the phone numbers for online accounts.

  • Post #1122543

    @Bruce Ah. BTW, whatever card we were using for Shaw isn&#39;t working and Shaw wants their money. Apparently we&#39;ve got an overdue balance, but I never received anything from them previously so I don&#39;t know.

  • Post #1122542

    @Bruce Wow! This homecare person knows us from 110 Adamar. She told me that Lana isn&#39;t working there anymore. She took a job at a new building on Pembina.

  • Post #1122541

    Did Whatsapp for PC just get a major update? I&#39;m currently not able to do anything with it at all. The correct scripts are loading but it&#39;s not reading anything.

  • Post #1122540

    Several days ago I wrote about my WhatsApp for PC not working with JAWS 2026. Today I decided to reinstall JAWS 2026. The odd thing is that JAWS 2026 is not listed in my add/remove programs. I have JAWS 2023 through 2025, but 2026 just isn&#39;t there. I never realized how much I use WhatsApp for PC until it stopped working. So I&#39;m going to try to reinstall and see what happens. And it&#39;s definitely something with JAWS 2026, because JAWS 2025 reads it perfectly.

  • Post #1122539

    Yay! Sometime last year I was asked by someone at the clinic that I go to for suggestions on how to make the web site more accessible. I gave some suggestions but then the site building was passed on to someone else. Earlier this year or late last year I went to the site because I was checking whether they were open or not due to weather. At that time I noticed that they were using Accessaby, or however it&#39;s spelled. The next time I went there I got in touch with the original person I&#39;d...

  • Post #816097

    The other day I fell for an extremely realistic fraud scam. I will never be accepting any so-called deals over the phone again, but I also want to limit the calls that I get. I had the unknown caller thing turned on for my iPhone, but it kept causing me problems because the traditional two-finger double-tap doesn&#39;t accept the call. Does anyone have any idea how this feature actually works and what I have to do with VoiceOver to make it work? I&#39;m just so tired of all this!

  • Post #816096

    Could someone please tell me the names of the fourth and fifth Hunger Games books. Asking for a friend, and I actually mean it. SMILE!

  • Post #816095

    @Bruce @mcourcel Wow! It really is Oh Holy Night!

  • Post #816094

    I blocked the scammer that I was dealing with last weekend, but he created a new number and started messaging me again today. I don&#39;t want to do it but I may have to change my phone number.

  • Post #816093

    Well, I did it. I gave up the phone number I&#39;ve had for close to eight years and I now have a new number. I&#39;m going to be reaching out to people to give out my new number, but if you&#39;ve had my previous one feel free to contact me to get the new one.

  • Post #695152

    I wanted to share with everyone a product that I just received that may be beneficial to others. After my fall on Saturday evening, the paramedics strongly recommended that I get myself a key lock box so that if anything like this happens again they&#39;ll be able to access a spare key. I found one that&#39;s completely accessible with push buttons and tactile markings that make it possible to set or change the combination whenever. This is the Master Lock 5422D push button portable key safe. Th...

  • Post #525507

    Yesterday evening someone came over and we built a bowl trap to try to encourage Marshmallow out. This morning she was in the trap safe and sound. She&#39;s not happy right now though and she&#39;s still trying to escape, but it won&#39;t happen if I have anything to say about it.

  • Post #525506

    I&#39;m looking on Uber Eats to see if any of the pet stores will deliver a cage. The search term I used is hamster cage. One of the options that came up for me is Nuburger restaurant. Is this supposed to be telling me what&#39;s really in their burgers?

  • Post #525505

    I&#39;ve created my very first meme. I even took the pictures. I had CoPilot create the picture, but I told it exactly what I wanted it to say and how I wanted it laid out. The alt-text descriptions are from CoPilot, not from me. Hopefully this works.

  • Post #313891

    The other day I was asking if anyone knew how to get recordings out of the iOS app which is apparently called Voice recorder + - Voice Memos, not Recorder as I&#39;d first said, by a developer that I can&#39;t include because it&#39;s in a foreign language that my phone won&#39;t read with characters I can&#39;t reproduce on my keyboard. In any case, I figured out how to get recordings off of the app. There&#39;s a button that&#39;s labeled WIFI, and if you select it you get a URL that you can e...

  • Post #313890

    Last night I said to a group of people that what I&#39;d really like to see someone code is a way to fully access a 3D printer, preferrable one that&#39;s quite a bit less than the $900 mark.

  • Post #294204

    @Bruce @mcourcel Bruce prefers to use cats for cushions instead of drums.

  • Post #294203

    Anyone out here using the OrbitReader 20 Plus with JAWS? I&#39;m trying to set up an Orbit with Jaws2026 and Windows 11. I want the braille cursor to be independent of the PC cursor so that someone can be typing on the computer and the braille display won&#39;t follow automatically. The problem is that neither of the rocker buttons will move the display and when I try reassigning the buttons to do what I want it says they&#39;re already assigned. I&#39;m hoping someone might have some thoughts o...

  • Post #294202

    I first read about the #Recorder app for iOS here on Mastodon, so now I&#39;m hoping that someone can answer a question for me. I&#39;ve got a recording that I&#39;ve made, but I have no idea how to access it outside of the app. Does anyone know where the recordings can be found? Thanks in advance for any helpful information.