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Alien Swarm
About the Game Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging ...
The cake is a lie, Portal 2 is not.
Portal was one of the best games that I have seen in a long time. The game was way different than anything most of us have ever played, which is the reason for it's success. The game had a brilliant idea that was perfectly executed and a mysterious storyline that left you wanting to know more about what the hell was going on. Throw in a hilarious computer that talks to you (GlaDOS) and it's the perfect recipe. Valve has plans for Portal 2, which will be released sometime in 2011 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC and Mac. Teaser trailer ...
Quickly speed up Mozilla Firefox
For those of you like myself using Mozilla Firefox, I recommend changing a few settings in the configuration file to speed up your browser. This will take you less than one minute. Open up Firefox and type "about:config" in the address bar (no quotes). Tell the browser you'll be careful and enter the settings page, watch out for dragons. In the filter bar, type "pipe" (no quotes). Set network.http.pipelining to true by double-clicking it. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 by double-clicking it and changing the value. Change network.http.proxy.pipelining to true by double-clicking it. Restart the browser and Bingo! You will notice an increase in speed because you ...
Share Your Knowledge, no account required!
- Do you have information on how to do something unique/different with electronics?
- Do you have any interesting news or stories regarding technology or inventions?
We'd like to hear from you!
Don't be shy, just about everything will be posted. Click the light bulb to Submit Tutorial or Article. No account required!
Alien Swarm
About the Game
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.
Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
The cake is a lie, Portal 2 is not.
Portal was one of the best games that I have seen in a long time. The game was way different than anything most of us have ever played, which is the reason for it's success. The game had a brilliant idea that was perfectly executed and a mysterious storyline that left you wanting to know more about what the hell was going on. Throw in a hilarious computer that talks to you (GlaDOS) and it's the perfect recipe.
Valve has plans for Portal 2, which will be released sometime in 2011 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC and Mac. Teaser trailer below:
New Xbox 360 Slim Announced
250 GB of pure sex. A new Xbox was announced by Microsoft this week.
Quickly speed up Mozilla Firefox
For those of you like myself using Mozilla Firefox, I recommend changing a few settings in the configuration file to speed up your browser. This will take you less than one minute.
- Open up Firefox and type "about:config" in the address bar (no quotes).
- Tell the browser you'll be careful and enter the settings page, watch out for dragons.
- In the filter bar, type "pipe" (no quotes).
- Set network.http.pipelining to true by double-clicking it.
- Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 by double-clicking it and changing the value.
- Change network.http.proxy.pipelining to true by double-clicking it.
Restart the browser and Bingo! You will notice an increase in speed because you just allowed Firefox to use multiple connections to access websites and content. Enjoy!
Advanced Wallpaper Search
Here's a quick tip on how I get my wallpapers. Most wallpapers come with that annoying watermark that we all love. To get these wallpapers, we have to browse through bloated websites that have pop-ups galore. Searching this way will give you MUCH more selection. Since I have discovered this, I haven't been back to a wallpaper gallery.
Custom Cell Phone Ringtones, Free!
Many people still don't know that you can use mp3's from your computer as free ringtones. I'm going to take it a step further and show you how to crop a certain section of a song to use for a ringtone.
To begin, download the audio editing software called Audacity. It's 100% free and well worth every penny! Thanks to the developers for making this amazing software free.
Hack Your Doorbell!
Ding dong! I came across this tutorial a while ago and always thought it was interesting.
For those with a LOT of time on your hands and a few extra dollars in your pocket, I'd say try it out!
http://popsci.typepad.com/how20blog/2007/11/build-it-hack-y.html
Connect a Wiimote to your PC
Connecting a Wiimote to your PC is very simple and effective when used with an emulator. A Nintendo Wiimote uses Bluetooth to connect to the Wii, therefore it can connect to your computer. All you need is a bluetooth ready PC (built-in or dongle).
BumpTop
Bumptop is a 3D desktop environment that gives you virtually 5 desktops to use and a cool transition between them. Google recently purchased the software company responsible for creating this amazing program and rumours have already started about a new tablet running BumpTop with Android.