Lifehacker has a great post on their best How-To features of 2009.Some of these features include how to work with Windows 7, how to clean a slow mac, and how to build a great media set up.
Click here for the link to the post.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Want to know how to do that? Look at this.
Lifehacker has a great post on their best How-To features of 2009.Some of these features include how to work with Windows 7, how to clean a slow mac, and how to build a great media set up.
Click here for the link to the post.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
A Silent Hill play? I'd watch.
I have never payed any title in the Silent Hill series, but I sure plan to. Maybe when I get a new Playstation 2 later....way later.
I would also love to see the Swedish stage play of Silent Hill.
A cover of it over on Kotaku shows a young man standing in front of what appears to be the infamous Cone Head, a reoccurring enemy in the series.
I would also love to see the Swedish stage play of Silent Hill.
A cover of it over on Kotaku shows a young man standing in front of what appears to be the infamous Cone Head, a reoccurring enemy in the series.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Pretty good read
I had picked up a comic the other day because of the title. It was Gears of War.I had played and finished the two main titles for the Xbox 360, but I hadn't reached forward towards the other media that had been released for the franchise. I just finished reading this copy, it is the 10 comic in the series.
It is a fairly good read, nothing too interesting but it has the gritty, war ridden feel that Gears of War conveys. It is a good read and any Gears fan should definitly pick these up.
The fine art of dual monitors
Recently, I've been finding a number of applications that allow me to make myself a more productive student with the use of my two monitors. I use a Lenovo T400 laptop and a random 26" tv I purchased at Wal-Mart before I left for school.
I bought a cord early in the year that allowed me to connect the two. I hadn't known of the potential of the two items together until now. I downloaded such applications as Edgeless, John's Background Switcher, Virtuawin, and Displayfusion in order to enhance my two screens and my work load. I learned that with all these apps in hand, my work was actually getting done.
I am still working on my set up. The picture above is from a week ago and I have changed a few things to make it more comfortable and neat, but the wire problem I have under the desk is something that will take me a while to figure out.
I am still working on my set up. The picture above is from a week ago and I have changed a few things to make it more comfortable and neat, but the wire problem I have under the desk is something that will take me a while to figure out.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The baby breifcase that shouldn't be
Ever wanted a case for your baby that does everything a parent does, other than give love and affection to a needy child? Well you are in luck, dear parent, as Pouyan Mokhtarani has designed a special carriage that is something like a Saw-like death-trap but designed specifically for the child's safety and less work for the parent.
It has an LED screen so the baby sees you and you see them along with a communicator system to transfer all the googly woogly babble most babies love to hear. The "pod" has several doors to keep your baby confined, comfortable and safe. It even has its own ventilation system to bring in fresh air for the youngster. THERE IS A AUTO POOPER SCOOPER!!!!! This machine is amazing, and I don't even have a child.
You can find the layouts and a better description at yankodesign.com.
It has an LED screen so the baby sees you and you see them along with a communicator system to transfer all the googly woogly babble most babies love to hear. The "pod" has several doors to keep your baby confined, comfortable and safe. It even has its own ventilation system to bring in fresh air for the youngster. THERE IS A AUTO POOPER SCOOPER!!!!! This machine is amazing, and I don't even have a child.
You can find the layouts and a better description at yankodesign.com.
Waving in Google Wave
Monday, November 30, 2009
Fog your computer screen with a little Steam
Gamers find many different ways to play the video games they love. Some play on consoles like Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii in front of their wall-sized HD TV's while others play in front of a PC monitor with their keyboard and mouse in hand ready to raid another dungeon or kick some zombie hide.
The console gamers have their own platforms to play on, being the systems themselves, but what do PC gamers have? They have the famous and most used platform, Steam. Steam is an online video game platform that hosts video game downloads such as full games, demos, trailers, screenshots and a wide variety of information on the games it has available. Steam users create an online account, download the desktop program, and that is it, time to shop.
Speaking of shopping, buying a game on Steam is as simple as putting in a valid credit or debit card information, placing a game in your virtual "cart" and checking out. One can buy a game for them self or they have an alternate option to buy a game for someone as a gift and send it to them via email or through the Steam platform itself. Once the purchased game downloads, which can take from 20 to a couple of hours for a game to download depending on the size of the install, gamers can be on their way towards playing some fantastic games such as Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle Deluxe, Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Games run just as good or even better than they do if they were on an install disk. On a Lenovo Thinkpad model T400 laptop with 4 gigs of ram and 140 gig hard drive, games run fairly well. Certain games like Fallout 3 or Borderlands might need a better PC for them to run smoothly, but they worked very proficiently while smaller games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Peggle Deluxe ran extremely smooth with the occasional slow down, but those are few and far between.
There are other platforms such as Direct-2-Drive and Amazon, which is not really considered a platform but it still allows gamers to download online versions of a large variety of video games. Steam still tops them off however due to the great deals they release every weekend which can start from 10 percent off a game with bonus content to even 50 percent off a pack of video games. Black Friday gave gamers a glimpse at the best deals on Steam that included a pack of games that totaled almost $400 but it was cut by nearly 75 percent.
Some PC gamers don’t have the luxury of owning top notch rigs that allow them to play almost realistic games such as Fallout 3 or Crysis, but they do all have a steady and stable platform to play video games together as a growing and powerful community, and it is known as Steam.
The console gamers have their own platforms to play on, being the systems themselves, but what do PC gamers have? They have the famous and most used platform, Steam. Steam is an online video game platform that hosts video game downloads such as full games, demos, trailers, screenshots and a wide variety of information on the games it has available. Steam users create an online account, download the desktop program, and that is it, time to shop.
Speaking of shopping, buying a game on Steam is as simple as putting in a valid credit or debit card information, placing a game in your virtual "cart" and checking out. One can buy a game for them self or they have an alternate option to buy a game for someone as a gift and send it to them via email or through the Steam platform itself. Once the purchased game downloads, which can take from 20 to a couple of hours for a game to download depending on the size of the install, gamers can be on their way towards playing some fantastic games such as Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle Deluxe, Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Games run just as good or even better than they do if they were on an install disk. On a Lenovo Thinkpad model T400 laptop with 4 gigs of ram and 140 gig hard drive, games run fairly well. Certain games like Fallout 3 or Borderlands might need a better PC for them to run smoothly, but they worked very proficiently while smaller games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Peggle Deluxe ran extremely smooth with the occasional slow down, but those are few and far between.
There are other platforms such as Direct-2-Drive and Amazon, which is not really considered a platform but it still allows gamers to download online versions of a large variety of video games. Steam still tops them off however due to the great deals they release every weekend which can start from 10 percent off a game with bonus content to even 50 percent off a pack of video games. Black Friday gave gamers a glimpse at the best deals on Steam that included a pack of games that totaled almost $400 but it was cut by nearly 75 percent.
Some PC gamers don’t have the luxury of owning top notch rigs that allow them to play almost realistic games such as Fallout 3 or Crysis, but they do all have a steady and stable platform to play video games together as a growing and powerful community, and it is known as Steam.
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