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Stop iPhone Apps (like Cheezburger) opening App Store at Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Game of War and Zelda Dungeon

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cheezI really love the “Cheezburger” app on my iPhone. The photo streams of “I Has A Hotdog” and “Failblog” really help to get me through the day. But lately, for no reason, the app goes away, and the app store opens up to games like Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Game of War and Zelda Dungeon. It is SOOOO frustrating!

Game of War App Screen CaptureI have found a “Work Around” for this problem, and it’s pretty simple. To stop this from happening, open up “Settings”, and then select “General”, and there is an entry in there called “Restrictions”.

Restrictions Screen CaptureIf you are using “Screen Lock” you will have to enter your password to open this section. Once you are in, simply turn “Installing Apps” off.

Installing Apps Screen Capture

Once you have done that, you can close out of settings, and go back to browsing Uninterrupted. The only down side is that if you want to download a new app, you will have to go back in and turn “Installing Apps” back on.

How I Got This Way – The History of Technology as I saw it – Part 2

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Pacman Game screen

After my brother enjoyed punishing me for a year or so on the Hanimex game console, We noted new, better, color games appearing. These units were at the local milk-bar. The first table I recall was Space Invaders. It was 20c to play, and you got 3 “lifes”.

Space Invaders Tablehttpv://youtu.be/28lv3K0pje0

It was a gigantic leap forward from the pinball machines we were playing previously. There was also another game table out at that time, some yellow thing called PacMan that ate stuff. It was not anywhere as near as cool as shooting aliens though!

Ms Pacman Game Tablehttpv://youtu.be/DHaQ3XSyaXk

The fire in me was well and truly lit. I was hooked. Video games were the greatest things in the world to me. In 1978 I heard about a new game console called Atari.

Atari 2600 Game Console

I started seeing them in the mail out catalogs from K-Mart. The games looked great! The first time I saw one in the flesh was my cousin….again. We played “Combat”. We each had a tank, and the object of the game was to shoot each other, which I thought was awesome. Because I had never played one before, and he owned the unit, he too took great enjoyment at thrashing me. I didn’t mind though. This was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Because it was hooked up to their color TV, this one really was in color.

Atari Combat

httpv://youtu.be/4Ri37_KhsRw

This was the beginning of the golden age of video games for me, and the beginning of a very long and enjoyable relationship with the Atari 2600.