This is my strategy for Poached Eggs level 1-6 for the iPhone game Angry Birds.
With this strategy you can get all three stars for the level.
The key to this level is to get enough damage to go over 35K points.
Google has released a new feature for GMail called Priority Inbox Beta. It works by analyzing your email and filtering it out what it thinks are the important messages and giving you easier and quicker access to those. It does this by seeing which emails you read, and which ones it applies to. So, it’s customized for each individual user. At first the filters won’t be very accurate, but by seeing your patterns over the course of time, it will become increasingly more accurate. You can even tell Google that a certain email is “less important” or “more important” to help out it’s learning curve.
Seems like CCP has been busy… seems like they also have too much money on their hands. What happens when you have a company run, built, and dreamed of by gamers? Apparently you get CCP. Their persistent world MMO EVE Online has been a classic. Something all other MMOs should strive to be. Now they are branching out. They have been busy developing a first person shooter called Dust 514. Apparently they are wanting to release it on consoles. “Well, what’s so cool about that?” you ask. I’ll tell you. The two games (EVE and Dust 514) will exist in the same universe. Actions done in either game will effect the same universe. Dust 514 will be battles in the trenches on the planets in EVE.
So, I came across this MMO yesterday called Allods Online. I was very very skeptical. I’ve been looking for a good MMO to get into lately and the barriers have either been high-barriers to entry (EVE Online), you have to pay for it (just about any MMO out there), or bad graphics and childish gameplay (WoW). I was first impressed by the graphics for Allods. I looked at a couple of their videos on their website, and it had me intrigued. Then I saw that it was free subscriptions. Double-take! My first thought was then “they must make you pay for in-game items”. Not the case (at least as far as I can tell).
I happen to be a user of both WPTouch (a plugin that makes my blog mobile friendly) and Webcomic (a plugin and theme that allows you to organize comic series). The problem lies in that webcomic uses a custom post type for displaying the images associated with each comic and WPTouch has no idea how to display a webcomic. Thus, when someone visits my site on a mobile device, they can see any text that I post for a webcomic, but they can’t see the image associated with my post. Today I resolved to fix that problem and I was successful. While it’s not the most elegant of solutions, it at least works for now and I hope it can help others.
I’m going to try and nip this one in the bud. For those of you who don’t know what Facebook Places is you can read about it here. It is a new service by Facebook that allows you to “check in” at a location to let other people know where you’re at and who you’re with. I saw someone with this status today:
Facebook launched Facebook Places yesterday.
Anyone can find out where you are when you are logged in. It gives the
actual address & map location of where you are as you use Facebook.
Make sure your kids know too. TO UNDO: Go to “Account”, “Account
Settings”, ………”Notifications”, then scroll down to “Places” and
UNCHECK the 2 boxes. Make sure to SAVE changes and re-post this message
I’ve been on Facebook for a long time. I have seen people do some pretty dumb things when it comes to protecting themselves, their identity, and the identities of their friends and loved ones. One of the biggest threats on Facebook is to give strangers access to your personal information. A lot of people I know play Facebook games which rely on you getting your friends to be neighbors. What typically happens though is that your personal friends don’t play those games, so you go out and find a bunch of random people to be friends with so that they can help you in the game.
One of the biggest disconnects in video games has been the inability for a 3D model to fully interact with it’s environment. Hair never seems to follow the laws of gravity, hands and arms seem to float right through clothing. I have often been disappointed that no one has stepped forward to solve some of these basic modelling problems. It seems now that my long wait could be over. In a video released by CCP (EVE Online) they showcase a technology that solves a lot of those interaction problems. It seems this will be the technology they are going to be using when they migrate to a fully 3D modeled character (as opposed to the static character portraits they’ve used for years).
This is my strategy for the challenge Covert Ops for the game StarCraft 2. With this strategy I was able to get 207 kills.
This blog is a chronicle of my adventure with Adobe in trying to get support for Flash Builder 4. You see, I purchased the premium version of the product 5 days ago, and one of the key features for the premium version is a “profiler”. Now, I got the application installed fine, and everything works EXCEPT for the “profiler”, the one feature that I paid $700 for. What follows is how Adobe chooses to conduct support for a $700 product.
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This is my strategy for the For the Swarm challenge for the game StarCraft 2. With this strategy you can get all three achievements (bronze, silver, gold).