Happy New year Everyone!!!
Wish you all the best for the new year 2010!
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Recording any sound that is being played on your speakers windows 7
Hi everyone. Today we will learn how to record any music , radio, game sound, just anything that your computer can play and save it. This was easy back in days on windows XP. But now it has become a little tricky because the stereo mixing device is now disabled by default in windows 7 and Vista.
To enable it just right click the speaker icon near the clock, then click “recording device”. Then right click any blank space below your devices list and click “Show disabled devices”. Then enable the “Stereo mix” device and set it as the default. Now you can start recording.
This is a first, but I tried to add a video description to this post. please check it out and tell me how you like it. should I have these video descriptions more often?
Gamespot.com Game of the year
Game spot dot com decided on the best game of the year, the winner is a game that I didn’t know, it’s called Demon’s souls. It looks really great, check it out here
But you know what sucked? Dragon Age:Origin won the PC game of year award! can you believe it? after all I said about it? I guess nobody listens to me anymore 
What about Borderlands, COD WM2, Or even RE5?
The gamer choice awards will be announced tomorrow I guess, we will see who will win this time.
6 things I hate about Dragon age: Origins
Some of the many things that I hate about the game called “Dragon Age: Origin”:
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Bad retarded graphics.
The graphics in this game are basically bad, they try to cover things up with some blur and full screen effects, but the result still sucks. Most of the objects in the game world are have low geometry. Check out my comments in the picture below:
2. PS1 like magic spells.
In a game of this genre, I always expect to see cool spells and magic effects. Well in this game most of the spells remind me of my old PlayStation one. Even there the Magic in Final fantasy IX was pretty spectacular. See an example in the pic below:
3. Crappy combat system.
As I usually do, I chose a mage as my main character in the game, for a start, your character will not respond to an attacker unless you ask him to, and then you will basically have to press “1” or “2” on your keyboard to lunch a spell, then you will have to wait until some count down is over to get to do the same spell again. And that, my friend is no fun.
4. Limited movement possibilities.
You are only allowed to walk in specific regions, don’t dream about crossing water, or even touching it. I think that the animation of footsteps in water is too complicated for our gurus here.
5. Bad long conversation and non-sense replies.
Every time you engage in a conversation, you will be given the chance to choose what to say from 3 or 4 options, most of the time, 1 option will make you sound gay, and the other 3 will make you a total jerk. They should have learned from “Rise of the Argonauts” when each conversation option is influenced by the teachings of some Greek god, and hence each answer is rational and reflects a well specific personality. But here you are just too rude or too nice.
6. You will never get to hear your part of the conversation.
I think that recording multiple conversations in multiple voices was just too troublesome for the developers of this game. But my problem is, why did you decide to record to other part of the conversation? It would be just ok with text conversations as it is in many other role playing games.
Are you a dragon age : Origin fan ? come on! get our of here, or at least tell us what you like about this game.
Did I forget some other things? come on lets make these the “100 things i hate about DAO”
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!
Hi.
It has been a while since I last updated this blog, I got kinda sucked into into some kind of a crazy vortex of anger, boredom, and laziness. Any way, I think I found my way out and I’ll be writing about some very cool stuff.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays everyone !
Use Opera unite to access thousands of shared music and video files
If you don’t know what is Opera Unite, then you can read some more about it here or visit the official website here
Today we will discuss how to use Google to access the media and data files that other Opera unite users are sharing after their permission to have their shared files indexable by Google.
To keep things simple I will set a few links that will give you direct access to Google search results.
1. Streaming music files
2.Streaming Video, Audio, and downloadable PDFs
3. Any shared files.
4. Shared Pictures
5. Acess to self hosted websites click repeat the search with the omitted results included. to show all results.
Clicking repeat the search with the omitted results included. will increase the number of results because Google tends to assume that multiple results are repeated.
Some of the results you will try to access will be offline, this means that the computer hosting the application is currently off, or Opera is not running.
Please carful while accessing self hosted website, there is no way to know the kind of material that can be hosted there. Also do not download suspesious or pirated apps from other’s computers, this can be very dangerous.
To have your opera services indexed by Google and publicly accessible, do the following.
1. register with opera unite and prepare all the application you want to share.
2. Right click each of the applications that you will be sharing and select properties.
3. click on the advanced settings arrow, then check “make application visible to search engines”.
4. If you wish for your files to be publicly viewable, please remove the password protection. to do so open the admin tab of the application that you sharing and click “Public” then save your settings.
that’s it!
It’s of course obvious that your internet bandwidth will be affected if you are sharing huge files that are publicly accessible, and let’s not neglect the risk of virus infection if you were smart enough to open a publicly accessible “File Inbox”
Please do not do illegal stuff with the info provided here. Opera gave us a good thing, let’s not ruin it!
Feel free to post your Opera unite applications links (and passes if any) here.
Opera Unite
Opera unite is a new service provided with the latest Opera browser 10.10. The idea is simple, you create an Opera account, and to that account, you can connect multiple computers (say: Home , Work, Notebook etc) and on each of these computers, you can install applications to do various things, like file sharing, or music streaming!
Other than that, you can connect to your friends computers, check the pictures they are sharing, leave them notes on the fridge (a note sending service is literally called fridge) , or listen to their music.
You can password protect your shared services to increase your security, but on the other hand you can go public and make the files you are sharing appear on search engines!
Another great feature of Opera Unite is the ability to provide a web server. You can host your own website on your computer without stressing over network related issues (static or dynamic IP, port forwarding etc). Opera will provide you with a URL that will give you direct access to your website from anywhere. I think I will write more on some applications of this very soon.
Many more applications are also available, like video streaming, group spreadsheet editor, file inbox and I expect much more to be available soon.
If anyone cares about testing the new Opera Unite as a group, please write your request here.
activate the Missing Hard disk partition in windows 7
after I installed windows 7 on my pc, I noticed that 1 of my 5 hard disk partitions was missing. the real cause of this is not yet clear to me, it is probably related to the ability of the windows 7 installation process to assign driver letters to a big number of partitions, but who knows.
Anyway to get back your partitions do not try extreme solutions such as BIOS settings and chipset INF files, just follow the following steps.
1. right click “Computer” and select “manage” . click “disk management” from the list on the left.
2. locate the missing partition, it is usually the partition without a driver letter.
3. right click it and assign a driver letter to it.
That’s it ! everything should work just fine now.
By the way what was you first impression after installing windows 7? I don’t know about you but I was a little disappointed
Your invitation to preview Google Wave!
Google wave has entered the preview phase!! Testers are now able to give away 20 invitations!!
This is a copy of the email i got on this regard
Thank you for signing up to give us early feedback on Google Wave. We’re happy to give you access to Google Wave and are enlisting your help to improve the product.
To accept your invitation, sign into Google Wave at the following link*:
https://wave.google.com/wave/invite?a=pre&wtok=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(If you do not have a Google account, you will be prompted to create one)
Once you’ve signed in:
Check out the videos and example waves
Invite others to join youHappy waving!
The Google Wave TeamFor help, please visit http://www.google.com/support/wave
* This link will only work for one invitation to Google Wave, it cannot be shared!
I will be giving like 5 invitation to my top geeky friends, so I still have 15 invitation to give away. If you want one, just ask for it nicely in the comments section below, i will be picking 15 random people to give the invitations too.
Good luck
Attend an AdSense webinar and learn how to improve your AdSense performance
I got an Email from google concerning a series of webinars (web seminars) over the coming months.
these webinars will discuss google adsense uses and optimization. here is a copy ofthe invitation letter I got:
Hello publisher,
The AdSense Team will host a series of webinars over the coming
months. At our webinars we’ll show you how you can grow your
AdSense revenue in a range of ways, for example by:- using Google Analytics to identify which pages require
optimisation
- making simple changes to your ad implementation
- using Google Ad Manager to backfill your unsold directly-sold ad
inventory with AdSense, and having AdSense compete with your other
ad networksAt each webinar you will also have the opportunity to consult an
AdSense specialist.For more information or to register for a webinar, see
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22045&sct=20091014-411.
Sincerely,
Siobhan
The Google AdSense Team
I registered for” AdSense Optimisation – Everything you need to know “.
To attend the webinar you will need WMP, Quick time, or just the Flash player 6. and you need to be a Google publisher I think.
Will you be attending a webinar? which one? what are you expecting?
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