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Voice Interactive Personal Assistant.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:25 -0600

This is the personal assistant that records, schedules, and replays audio reminders via spoken commands. One verbal cue allows you to record up to 10 six-second voice memos that play at any specified time today, every day, or any day of the week. Say “Today’s Reminders” to hear all reminders for the day and when they will play, ensuring that you remember to take your medication, attend a grandchild’s recital, or complete a household chore. A simple verbal request for “Help” reminds you of the 12 commands the device recognizes. The unit can be heard clearly 20′ away and its dimmable 2″ blue LED numbers are viewable in any light. It’s also a voice-operated alarm clock that responds to verbal queries in a pleasant female voice.

Hands-on with the iOmega iConnect.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:36:06 -0600

The iConnect does essentially the same thing as the Pogoplug as it is able to bring USB storage into one’s home network.You can see the iConnect in the photo as the black box that all the other hard drives are plugged into. The iConnect can be set up in seconds wirelessly with its included router cable and software. When it is plugged into the wall, four USB thumb drivers or even hard drives can be plugged into it.The user can then access his or her files from these drives from anywhere there is an Internet connected computer.

Fun Or Serious Games, Different Types For Different People.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:34:49 -0600

For some they really enjoy the large group fun games, but the focused and serious games are not for them. What type of games do you like to play?

I come from a very large family and we love to play games. I have some brother-in-laws that didn't grow up playing games and so it is like pulling teeth to get them to play games with us. There are certain games that we are pretty sure we can get them to play with us and then there are those that we know for sure they won't even consider playing with us.

When we sit down and play a big group game where everyone is laughing and it's a relaxed setting they will join us. They like the laughing and the poking fun of each other. It can get really fun when you have twenty adults playing together. As long as we are playing these types of games they will join us.

Then there are a couple of games that a few of us love to play and they are much more of a serious game. With these few serious games it is quiet and thought out and no one is helping each other. It is more technical and down to a few players. We love the serious games, but we definitely find that it is easier to play the serious games when the children are quieter and there are no distractions.

One of my brother-in-laws says that he doesn't like sitting and playing in the group setting, but has found that he loves playing more focused on his computer.

Five Best Multiplayer Apps For the IPhone, IPod Touch and IPad.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:34:02 -0600

Multiplayer games on the iPhone were the hot new thing a year ago. Now, the quickly maturing field offers a host of choices. We've picked some of the best for you -- but first, some housekeeping:

To play over local WiFi, all players have to connect over the same hub. Global WiFi and 3G games let you compete from anywhere, but are sometimes geared to a universal pool of players; playing your buddy might be impossible if the game automatically matches you to opponents.

That said... let the games begin!

N.O.V.A. (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance,) Gameloft; $6.99. Gameloft has been a powerhouse of iPhone gaming since day one. Gameloft's specialty is delivering the kind of experience you expect from one of those grandpa game machines hooked up to a television, but in iPhone size. (The company's "Brothers In Arms" franchise, a knockoff of "Call of Duty," is legendary). NOVA is a HALO-like first-person shooter set in a sci-fi world, and up to four can play in a game. The graphics are gorgeous, the gameplay is crisp, and you have good leeway to explore in every screen, adding to the realism.

Galcon, Galcon.com; $2.99. There are those who say that Gameloft gets by on perfect implementation of someone else's idea. The secret of Galcon's addictive power, by contrast, is its originality. The graphics are flat and geometrical, but they're not meant to be realistic. The action is in the strategy, but here's the kicker: there are no turns. You do all your galactic domination in real time. It's simple, it's addictive, and it's at the best at what it does. Add in human opponents and your iPod touch or iPhone become an arcade you can't leave.

Alive 4-ever, Meridian; $2.99. Prefer your shoot-'em-ups with a top-down point of view and waves and waves of living dead? Alive 4-ever is for you. You and up to three other survivors battle it out in a zombie-infested wasteland, where if you know what's good for you, you even shoot the dogs. You'll play Alive 4-ever until you realize you've become one of them,and go looking for fresh brains to eat. Bonus: with multiplayer gameplay, now you've got a lunch date. Bluetooth and local wifi (you and your buddies,) no global wifi.

MyBrute, Bulkypix, $3.99. MyBrute strips away everything except the fighting, then doesn't let you control the fighter. If that turns you off, skip to the next "best." If it doesn't, you're an RPG fan. RPGs are about building, training, equipping, and perfecting your character, then pitting him against others and letting nature take its course. MyBrute does that brilliantly, with equipment and skills out the wazoo and dojos competing for the privilege of training your cute little gladiator. Caution: extremely addictive for the RPG fan, and provides insidious option to buy new features. Fighters also kill each others' pets, but it's cartoony, so you won't mind.

F.A.S.T. (Fleet Air Superiority Training), SGN; Free. Online, real-time, 3-D Dogfights sound sweet? Then you want F.A.S.T. Go to where the DefCon's highest, and engage the enemy over wifi internet, either in private combat against friends, or against random internet victims. Fight head-up or in 2-on-2 dogfights. Ten planes, 30 missions, unlimited opponents.

Monopoly Board Game.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:33:00 -0600

Cloaked in some very interesting history, Monopoly has been a favourite board game for family and friends in one form or another for over a century. Published in 1999, the Guiness Book of Records even state that the monopoly board game has been played worldwide by over 500 million people making it the world's most played board game.

Originally made with the idea of teaching people an economic system, monopoly, literally meaning to dominate or simply have one person own everything, relates here to the buying and selling of property and the management of those properties, monopoly has been seen to help with educating people in the realms of business dealings and financial management.

Originating from a game going by the name, the landlords game, the monopoly board game has evolved to the ones we play today with many different versions and themes available, structured around the ability for one player to create the most wealth to win the game, to monopolize or to own the most, thus creating the most wealth and forcing his opponents into bankruptcy.

The official instructions to the monopoly board game encourage players to adapt the rules or even add additional house rules or perhaps remove a rule to make their playing that bit more unique, however the basis of the original monopoly board game is much the same over.

To briefly outline just a few of the basics, firstly before the game commences the players decide on who is to be the banker and each player chooses a playing piece, then in an agreed order the players roll the dice to progress clockwise around the playing board. On route the players meet various scenario's including the picking of community chest or chance cards which give instructions for that player to follow, the prospect of ending up in jail or landing on a tax square where a payment has to be made to the bank but the most important strategy is for players to buy up properties, once bought, any other player landing on an owned property will have rent to pay to the owner of that property. If a player can acquire a full set of properties which are related they can then start to enhance that set of properties by purchasing houses and hotels to increase the rent payments due from other players when landing on one of the properties within that set.

The winner of the game is the player left after the other players have nothing left in money or property terms, but please be aware that this situation sometimes takes a very long time to achieve so perhaps one of your house rules could be a time limit, where the winner of the monopoly game is the player with the most cash and assets after a given time of playing.

Firefox 3.6 keeps freezing and becoming non responsive

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:02:46 -0600

I am having Firefox 3.6 and it keeps freezing and becoming non responsive.
I have been forced to go back to IE7 with no problems. I would rather use
Firefox. Why is Firefox freezing and becoming non responsive ?

I have scanned my computer for all bugs and my computer is clean.I have even tried by disabling my add-ons for Firefox,upgrading to Firefox 3.6 Beta (revision 5) [3.6b5] downgrading to Firefox 3.5 and tried deleting my cookies and internet temp files and I have the same problem.

Connecting My Laptop to a TV, Not sure what connector I need

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:49:30 -0600

Hey there

I would like to connect my laptop to my TV, but I'm not sure what connector I need to do this.

My laptop has a S-Video and VGA port, and the TV has 2 scart and 1 aerial 'holes' (what's the name for this?!) and something else but I don't know what it's called.

Any help would be appreciated

Printing a PPT as a PDF

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:38:48 -0600

Hello
I am suddenly having trouble with Microsoft Powerpoint and PDFCamp Printer. I create PPTX files that are 12MB and usually print to PDFCamp Printer to compress the size and create a file that is <1MB. However, starting yesterday when I selected this option to print, the 4.5MB file that I printed as a PDF is now a 7.1MB PDF. For some reason when the file converted from PPT to PDF the file size actually increased! I tried multiple files and this started happening with each of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions to why it happens so?

Thanks

CD burner is not burning

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:20:20 -0600

My cd burner is not burning. It reads and plays CD & DVDs just fine. It use to burn CD's but now it doesn't. When i try and burn a CD it goes through the whole process of burning. But when the CD comes out it comes out blank. Don't know what is wrong with it. I have Windows XP.

Cannot renew IP address

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:05:05 -0600

Well, I've read through quite a few posts and tried most of the suggestions and nothing seems to work. I'm having winXP operating system and a Netgear wireless N 300 router with DSL modem. since last two ,I lost internet connection with my desktop. After checking all connections and the router, I tried connecting wirelessly with my laptop...worked fine. I disconnected the ethernet cable from the desktop and the laptop connected via the cable with no problems. So I figured it was the port. After installing a new ethernet port, it worked...for 12 hours. Then the same problem cropped up again.

I've tried repairing the internet connection and get the "cannot renew IP address".

Any thoughts?

Modern Warfare 2 - Sensitivity Tips

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:03:55 -0600

In the world of PC gaming, the sensitivity of the mouse is what dictates a veteran player on how they can easily target enemies. The mouse look in the game can be tweaked to your liking albeit there are some differences from the past series on how to toggle them.

Sensitivity in Modern Warfare 2 is only seen with a slider. This can be a tricky way to really gauge the mouse look. The highest slider seems to be a joke and you should never have higher sensitivity unless you have a different type of pointing devices.

The lowest setting will get you (1) sensitivity. This can be low for first time people that want to tweak their mouse movements. An 800 dpi mouse can be great at (3) sensitivity for rushing. Sniping can be maximized for choosing 2 or lower.

My personal setting is (.8) sensitivity but this is a problem with the game. The only way you can set this is by using cracked MP files and have a developer console to tweak your mouse settings accurately. Although (1) sensitivity is great, it's better if you can still lower it to your tastes.

Starters can get to (3) sensitivity if they prefer a better or a more precise aim. But when playing for a long time, the hands actually get jerky; you can then adjust it to a lower one for making precise aim. By default, the slider is on the (5) setting, the lowest is (3), so just gauge the bar and set it to your preference.

Some hardcore players use up to (.4) sensitivity. Others get to (10) which I really don't know why. Just be sure to get your right mix after a few matches to get ahead of ADS or aiming down the sight.

The only way to get to tweak these settings with a numerical value is to get a modified MP executable and has a developer console to get to lower settings. At this moment of writing, the Parovoz version is the best and close to having a better control over your Modern Warfare 2 gaming spree.

Diablo 2 - A Very Addictive Game

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:03:00 -0600

The grade of addiction that Diablo 2 creates on whoever plays it, is beyond any thing you have ever imagined. Now with some new Diablo 2 items it is even more addictive. Many avid game players have been waiting for the release of this new version since Blizzard announced the sequel to the much acclaimed game Diablo. Even though the wait was long, we can say it was worth the while; we are finally able to play Diablo 2 and you should get your agenda well prepared, as you will need to spend many hours of your time, playing this game.

This new version of Diablo has new distinct characteristics. In this version, we will be able to play with two new characters, named Necromace and Amazona, in addition to the original characters in the previous version by the names Barbaro, Mago and Paladin. Some other new features in this new version of Diablo are the new abilities the characters will have and also some new Diablo 2 Items. Another interesting feature is that every time you pass to the next level, you will be able to make your character more specialized in something.

This game has four different Acts in all of which you will be pursuing Diablo and all its demonic brothers. You will need to complete several missions and tasks in order to advance to the next level and you will need to use some of the spells and tricks that you have learned. Every little thing you do through out the game will make your character either stronger or weaker. If you want to defeat the diabolical demons then you should be really prepared.

Diablo 2 has several games modes, all of which will make your heart jump out. Playing this game is very thrilling and you will spend many hours entertaining yourself when playing it. The new D2 items that are in this version are simply incomparable. They will make your gaming experience much more interesting and joyful. There are many items to choose from and all of them will give your character more probabilities of defeating the devil. You can either purchase some of these items or earn some by playing. The items are not very expensive and they will add a lot more excitement to your favorite game. If you love playing Diablo 2, then some of these items is just what you need and getting them is very easy.

Bubble Shooter Game Review

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:50:23 -0600

The game of Bubble Shooter comes in many variants and even seasonal special editions. The version "Bubble Shooter deluxe v1.6" from Absolutist Games is by far the most popular version which was developed originally in 2004 and we will use this version as the basis for this review. The game is readily available for download for Windows or Mac and also has applications for most PDA style of devices such as iPhone and Palm in addition to Linux based software and CD availability. Whatever method you prefer, and whichever format you like your games to be available in, the makers of Bubble Shooter seem to have thought of them all.

As with all of the Bubble shooting style of games this is easy to play and has simple rules and straight forward play methodology. It is quite addictive to play and the player would be wise to complete any work needing to be done, or appointments needing to be kept prior to launching this cute but demanding application.

The main objective is to clear the screen and there is only one basic method by which to do this, simply fire your bubbles at the multi-colored pack and have them explode in front of your eyes. To do this one has to have a minimum of three similarly colored bubbles on the field of play and by striking them they will explode and clear that part of the screen.

The game is won or lost when either the bubbles reach the bottom of the screen or the player manages to clear all the bubbles from the screen. The play itself is simple, just line up the arrow with the direction you wish your bubble to travel and click the pointed part of the arrow to fire your bubble towards the pack. If you manage to explode a set of bubbles with more than three of the same color, then that "hit" will be worth more points than a pack of three would be. So, as an example, one set of six bubbles is worth more than two sets of three.

There are six different colors of bubbles, no one color is worth more points than another. The player will also notice some silver bubbles at the base of the screen, these are the number of missed shots allowed before you forfeit the game.

Civilization IV - Democracy Game

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:49:11 -0600

Firstly, for those who don't know, Civilization IV is a strategic turn-based strategy game where you, the player, control the fate of an entire nation. You lead it from its humble foundations as a single tribe, all the way through civilization, to a mighty empire.

If you are looking at this article though, you probably already know that. What you are wondering now, is what is a Democracy Game?

A democracy game is one played with a group of friends, whom each have equal say in how the game is played. There is only one require elected position (the Designated Player) but other positions may rise, depending upon how you and your friends want to play. You could have a very orderly online democracy, with a constitution, other positions, and direct popular elections. Or you could decide who is the designated player based upon a weekly game of 'quarters'.

The game is very fun and social, and could easily be a weekly item for young people of similar interests. Maybe your 'Town Hall' meeting is scheduled before your murder mystery, or before your weekly D&D campaign.

However, there is plenty more things you can do to make it interesting. I just recently started a Democracy Game using the Fall From Heaven Modpack, which transforms the whole game into a fantasy experience. Thus after voting on what race/nation we wanted to be, we chose Elves, ad now we've effectively combined our D&D and Civilization Experience!

We've become quite advanced with the concept, and now have an RP economy, a blog that serves as a newspaper, and we even sell advertising on the blog for in-game currency! Its quite vibrant!

Thus you can see, the possibilities are limitless!

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:49:51 -0600

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How safe is the Wireless Internet

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:01:33 -0600

There are quite a few risks associated with wireless internet connections. While the more benign among the spyware and adware programmers monitor the sites that the user visits on the web simply to be able to assess the success of their marketing efforts and identify the web-surfing habits of wire less internet users, there are types of spyware that go beyond these limits. They undermine the user’s wireless internet security, by carefully monitoring the keystrokes and actually capturing passwords and other functions. This surely crosses the line and poses a very definite wireless computer security risk.

Why Kids are Unsafe over the Internet

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:10 -0600

As with almost every product that exists in our economy, the internet can have its dark side, depending on how you use it. A student could use it for homework research or for searching mature content. Either way, they have complete access to a worldwide database of uncensored information.

Unfortunately, there are several sources. An innocent talk through one of the major four instant messaging services a curious search in determined forums or even worse, a case of cyber stalking. Your child could become victim of some more experienced web user who can exploit the security debilities of you home pc. Internet crimes against children are common today, and will never stop, so, if you are a responsible parent, it’s better to take some measures against it.

Providing The Laptop To Outside People

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:54:31 -0600

Another way in which laptops could pose a security threat is usage of laptops by people outside the work circle. First step in computer laptop security is it should never leave the hands of the executive with whom it is entrusted. It is also better to create a password to restrict access to laptops by unauthorized personnel within or outside the organization.

Providing open access to e-mail and files on your laptop computer to outside people are obvious security risks. Critical data like finance information, salaries, social security numbers, credit card data, tax returns etc are easy targets for identity theft.

Employees with Laptop can cause Critical Data to Leak

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:51:14 -0600

Many business executives now work with laptops that give them the convenience of portable connectivity. Filing of reports and keeping track of sales targets and personnel has become simple with laptops. However, on the flip side it also increases the risk of data leakage. Unless the employees take computer laptop security wireless issues seriously there are bound to be security issues sooner than later.