To our American friends: We wish you a happy Independence Day, 2009!
We’ve finally gotten around to creating a template word list for Fourth of July Bingo Cards. Go and try them out, courtesy of print-bingo.com. It’s a great way to spend a few hours with the family before the fireworks start!
Printing out a few customized cards is free for all! If you’d like to get all of the features of our site, or to print hundreds of cards in a single run, then an upgrade costs you only $10.
Fathers’ Day is just around the corner. This year, for many people, including the USA and Canada, it falls on June 21st, 2009.
If you’re looking for a unique way to provide some entertainment for the evening, how about a quick fun game of Bingo?
Visit print-bingo.com, the best web based bingo card generator on the planet (yeah, we’re getting a little proud), and customize our word list for Fathers’ Day Bingo Cards for your Fathers’ Day BBQ. Toss in your name, and your Dad’s name… and even Mom’s name to make your bingo came truly unique.
As always, printing a few cards from our site is free. However, you can upgrade for $10 to get access to extra features such as printing 1000 pages of cards at a time.
I thought that free burn-in software would be easier to find.
Every now and then I cobble a computer together from parts, or I have to diagnose a PC that is crashing from time to time. Unfortunately, even though a PC can boot, it doesn’t mean that it’s stable and ready to go. The tool for this job is burn-in software.
I used to use the free-as-in-beer version of SiSoft Sandra, but over the years it has gotten rather bloated. Anyway, SiSoft Sandra is more geared towards benchmarking a computer rather than stress testing.
Today, I found a great little tool that seems to do a good-enough job of testing the CPU and RAM – it also puts a modest amount of load on the hard drive.
The free tool that I am currently recommending: CPU Stability Test by Jouni Vuorio. It seems to run fine in all current versions of Microsoft Windows.
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,7146-order,1/reviews.html
It’s a bit old, circa 2000, and I can’t find a current website for it… but it works. There are several “high-quality”, i.e. non-spammy, websites that host CPU Stability Test. Just Google for it if the link above goes stale.
There is still room to find a better free utility, but for now I’m satisfied. But, if you have other suggestions for free burn-in testing software, please leave a comment!
Update: A free utility for testing memory (i.e. looking for bad memory sticks) that runs inside Windows – http://hcidesign.com/memtest/. If you’ve got the ability to reboot the machine, then use Memtest86.