There are bombs in Pac-Man Championship edition DX.
It wasn’t until I heard EA Mythic’s Paul Barnett mentioning it on a Giant Bombcast top 10 of the year explaining how he found out after having played it for quite a while. Now it makes much more sense as to why everyone is raving about the new and improved Pac-Man.
The Google TV Queue is available via Google Reader.
I use Google Listen on my HTC Evo, all the time. The podcasts for that come from a section within Google Reader. I subscribe using the computer, it shows up on the phone. I kept wondering why the Queue on the Google TV wasn’t set up in a similar way. Seeing how Google connects everything you do with everything else, it seemed a little strange. I was wrong. They DO include a Google Queue section within Google Reader. So you hit up your browser, and it appears on your telly!
How great Break Bad is.
Similar to Dexter, in that you’re supposed to like the bad guy. I won’t spoil any of it, except to say that it is great TV.
1 year ago
Locked eyes with a chap who was deciding the best location for his now empty shopping cart, that would cause him the least amount of guilt/effort.
He sort of shambled to a halt, while silently justifying to anyone within sight of him that he was now in his own personal shopping cart drop zone.
He made the drop. The reason became clearer as the extent of his planning became more apparent.
Himself (not disabled) parked in a disabled space, leaving the cart in the very next disabled space over. Both spaces of course being only a car lane away from all the other carts outside the store.
So it was some awesome thinking.
Take up a spot so a genuinely disabled person couldn’t use it, and when you are finished with your cart, leave it taking another space so a disabled person cannot park there, or hope to move it out of the way to be able to park anyway!
Staggeringly thoughtless.
Actually I believe the etiquette for this type of situation is to look away and both of us be too lazy to do anything about the cart, because after all it’s not like we can’t walk properly!
2 years ago
Having replaced a very loved Logitech MX Revolution mouse, with the only version I could find available where the mouse has a second wheel, I ran into the same configuration issues regarding middle mouse button functionality.
Short version for those of you impatient to get things moving….
After you’ve installed the Setpoint software and the mouse and keyboard are working correctly, RIGHT CLICK on the Setpoint icon down near the clock and select EXIT. Then on your computer, go here;
C:\Users\YOURLOGGEDONUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Logitech\SetPoint\user.xml
You and I both know that in the line where it says YOURLOGGEDONUSERNAME, it’s referring to the current user, which is usually your name, but I think I’ve explained that enough right now….
Find the line in the file that says this;
<Button Number=”6” Name=”4”>
From there, down to where it reads
</Button>
Paste this;
<Button Number=”6” Name=”4”>
<Trigger Class=”ButtonPress”>
<Param Button=”6” FirstRepeatDelay=”0” RepeatDelay=”0” Silent=”0” Type=”0”/>
<TriggerState Name=”ButtonDownUp” HandlerSet=”MiddleMouseButton”>
<Handler Class=”MouseButton”>
<Param ButtonName=”MiddleButton”/>
</Handler>
</TriggerState>
</Trigger>
<Param IconLoc=”” Type=”“/>
</Button>
SAVE the file, then run Setpoint again.
ALL PROGRAMS > LOGITECH > MOUSE AND KEYBOARD > MOUSE AND KEYBOARD SETTINGS
Ok geeks need not read any further, but for those of us who don’t speak fluent Matrix, here’s some detail.
For whatever reason, someone at Logitech didn’t think that anyone would want to be able to use the little search button as a middle mouse click, so this is a way of forcing the software to do what you want it to, even though the levers and pulleys are not available to you on the outside. Sort of like making a bus driver drop you off right outside your house even though the route is nowhere near it and if you asked they would tell you there was no way you could buy a ticket to that exact destination. A lot of software works this way, and you can probably find lots of other incomprehensible text files all over your computer that set very specific things in very specific ways. If you must fiddle, do be a good chap and make a backup copy of any file BEFORE you do it. In this case I just RIGHT CLICKED the USER.XML file, selected COPY, then PASTE to put a copy right there with it. If you do screw up, you can just delete the (now useless) USER.XML file, and rename the USER - COPY.XML file to USER.XML and you are all good.
To edit that file you can use Notepad. Open Notepad first, and then drag this file in, or RIGHT CLICK on the file and select OPEN WITH, then from the list that appears select NOTEPAD. If that doesn’t show up then you can select it from the option CHOOSE DEFAULT PROGRAM and any more than that is probably outside the scope of this particular post.
To insert the above text into the file, just copy the text above, then find the corresponding line in the USER.XML file and highlight that, then select PASTE. You should see it change. Then SAVE the file, and run the Setpoint software again (as it says above). Then go to a link on a web page, click the little button and OH MY GOODNESS, it opens in a new tab!
Oh and if you were wondering (which you probably weren’t but what they heck) I use the second mouse wheel for volume up and down, and click it to mute/unmute.
My work here is done (except maybe some pictures to brighten up the entry….. soon)
P.S. This is obviously for a PC, and perhaps the Mac version lets you do this already. Do YOU know?
P.P.S Now I have two functioning middle mouse buttons right next to each other. So if someone ever brings out a Track and Field game that uses the middle mouse button, I AM GONNA WIN!
2 years ago
Is the iPad aimed at people who rarely use a desktop or laptop, but really get a lot of use out of their iPhone/iPod Touch?
If you’ve gotten really used to doing your interwebs on that little slip-slidey screen, then at first glance, a larger area would seem an obvious plus.
Maybe the iPad is not so much a new device category, and more about creating a new market for those that only (want to) understand the iPhone OS.
Training a whole new group of Apple cult members. Brace yourselves, because as soon as they sound the alarm they are going to pour over the horizon. They will not care what your netbook does, because they understand the iPad.
2 years ago
I decided this year that one of my resolutions would be to stop bothering with retro games so much. It’s only 10 days in and I’ve already amassed a PS2 and an Xbox 1, both with a smattering of games. Is this a sign, or just focusing on it WAY too much?
For the record, I did’t purchase them, they were just in the way of replacing other household thingies.
Anyone up for a game of something REALLY old and crappy?
I’m pretty sure this will finally be the year I do NOT purchase Lemmings again. And I’m going to pretend I don’t know about the upcoming Xbox Live Game Room, that’s full of arcade cabinets from days of old.
2 years ago
Just getting started using an Asus Eee PC properly. I am mostly online, so it does everything every other computer does, at the same speed, in the same way, looking the same (only smaller). Even my pudgy man-hands-o-sausage can easily get used to the keyboard.
One thing I really like about it, is how fast it sleeps and wakes again. Shut the lid, no problem, open the lid and press something it comes back within a few seconds.
I don’t think there is anything to be said for the power of this little laptop, sorry Netbook, because it does everything as any normal sized computer would. I can hold it in one hand while using it. Instead of having to scribble down serial or model numbers on a piece of paper, to enter later into some Google doc for a report, I can just take this with me and enter it directly. There isn’t that fragile nature of a full blown 8lb, 19 inch laptop, that cost too much, and has to wait 5 minutes to start up, because you KNOW you will remember something the moment you clicked SHUT DOWN.
Watched Battle Star Galactica on Hulu with the Eee PC, full screen. The 480p version there was a little too juddery to be comfortable, but the lower 360p was fine. Apart from that, which is not exactly mission critical in my day (maybe just once a week for now), it is a good solid machine.
Pixlr.com seems like it was made for this thing. Pressing F11 brings it to full screen, and then it’s just like running a native program.
There is one serious drawback… it’s not actually my netbook. So I have to give it back soon, and get one for myself, but maybe if I sing its praises quietly, I won’t alert anyone to its usefulness.
3 years ago
