{"id":256,"date":"2007-06-10T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/10\/efficiency-tip-47-turn-off-dog\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:13:15","slug":"efficiency-tip-47-turn-off-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/10\/efficiency-tip-47-turn-off-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #47 &#8211; Turn Off Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default settings for Windows include an &#8220;animated screen character&#8221; or as I call it\u00a0 &#8211; the animated dog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dumbdog.png\" alt=\"dumbdog.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each time you search for something, this friendly guy sloooooowly walks onto the screen and asks what you are looking for.\u00a0 The &#8220;cute&#8221; factor wears off after a search or two.\u00a0 The dog is not as annoying as the Office paperclip, but close.<\/p>\n<p>You can click Change Preferences and turn off this animation.\u00a0 Your searches will start quicker.\u00a0 If you really want an online &#8220;friend&#8221; to play with, get a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/12\/webkinz\/\">Webkinz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=0.97<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default settings for Windows include an &#8220;animated screen character&#8221; or as I call it\u00a0 &#8211; the animated dog. Each time you search for something, this friendly guy sloooooowly walks onto the screen and asks what you are looking for.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/10\/efficiency-tip-47-turn-off-dog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}