{"id":20440,"date":"2020-01-06T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"note-to-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/note-to-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Note To My Fellow Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at my veterinarian’s office and I quipped that if they were an airline I’d be getting frequent flier miles as often as I find myself going in there.\u00a0 The lady behind the desk said, “We have a rewards program.\u00a0 You need to be on it, it will save you a lot of money.\u00a0 Just go to our website and download it.”<\/p>\n

I went looking for Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital’s rewards program.\u00a0 I found it and was sent to the PetDesk web site<\/a> where I found:
\n.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What devices does the app work on?<\/strong>
\n.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PetDesk is available on IOS and Android devices (Mobile or Tablet).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Not available for a Windows laptop.\u00a0 Rats!\u00a0 I felt like lodging a complaint for discriminating against us dinosaurs who don’t have a smart phone.\u00a0 I decided instead to gripe about it to my best bud: Electro-Man Mike.<\/p>\n

Mike is a retired network engineer who knows computers, networks, and security stuff inside and out.\u00a0\u00a0 Mike told me that Android emulators are available to run Android aps on a windows machine.\u00a0 He even gave me a link to a web page that listed and reviewed a fair number of them.\u00a0 I went with BlueStacks<\/a>, the top rated emulator.\u00a0 Top rated and free<\/strong><\/em> … can’t beat that!<\/p>\n

I installed BlueStacks, booted it up, went to the Google store from within the emulator, located the PetDesk ap, and installed that.\u00a0 When I booted up PetDesk it asked for a small amount of information and WHALA: my veterinary records were sitting there in front of me.\u00a0 It was kind of spooky how easy that was.<\/p>\n

So if you encounter any other of us dinosaurs who don’t have a smart phone but want to use one or more aps made for an Android phone, tell them to Google “BlueStacks Android Emulator”.\u00a0 And try not to get stuck in a tar pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at my veterinarian’s office and I quipped that if they were an airline I’d be getting frequent flier miles as often as I find myself going in there.  The lady behind the desk said, “We have a rewards program.  You need to be on it, it will save you a lot of money.  … Continue reading “Note To My Fellow Dinosaurs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19,47,159],"class_list":["post-20440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-adventures","tag-bookkeeping","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20443,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions\/20443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}