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New Team Fortress 2 Spy Skin by Pxl_Buzzard
44 years ago
Hello again everyone. I write with the news that I recently did a small touch-up on
the spy skin in Team Fortress 2 (an excellent online cartoon FPS made by Valve). The skin isn’t anything much, just a new camo tie that I thought was desperately needed (I mean, who wants a plain old striped tie anyways?). I tried to give a fancy beard too, but the game won’t show it for whatever reason even though it shows up in the redone skin. So, without further ado, I present to you the download for the skin (I hope you’ve looked at it on the right side by now to see if you’ll love it or just freak out in it’s pure awesomeness).
Vampirism Obliviated addon for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
24 years ago
Hey everyone, I just thought I would write up a quick post about a little Oblivion mod that I made called Vampirism Obliviated. Here is the description that is in the readme:
Vampirism Obliviated in Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion erases all of the vampire spells and effects within Oblivion that act upon your character, and works whether or not you are currently a Vampire. Specifically, this mod erases the spells that make you into a vampire, such as vampirism25-100, the attack and defense bonuses, and sunlight damage, so that you can still become a vampire again if you disable this mod.
Not that I should get much of a say about its awesomeness, but I do since I made it. Here’s the story about why I decided to make this in the first place. Grab a coke and some Cheeto’s, this is a classic…
…One day I was minding my own business pulling off the biggest theft in history by stealing an Elder Scroll from the Imperial Palace and thus become the Master (Gray Fox for Oblivion players) of the Thieves Guild. This had been going smoothly thus far: I had the already taken the Scroll from the blind monks in the library after sneaking in through the sewers at like 4 in the morning, and now was whooping and hollering on my way back through the sewers, ready to claim the title of Gray Fox. Low and behold, there are a few vampires hiding out in the sewers that had definitely not been there the first time. I kill them with ease, still on my adrenaline rush, and don’t notice the text in the upper-left hand part of my screen saying I had contracted the vampire virus known as “porphyric hemophilia.” A couple days later, a little note pops up on screen after I had finished with a little catnap saying I was now a vampire. Well, I don’t care so much about feeding on people after hours just to be normal, so I tried to take a Vampirism Cure Potion, but lo and behold, I’m still a freaking vampire! I then scower the known (and unknown probably) internets in order to find another solution. There is but one more I can find, which is by removing the vampire spells via the console. I try this, and guess what, it doesn’t work either. It was here that I began the quest to rid Tamriel (the ingame world) of this foul and unsightly life alteration. All the spells that effect you, such as sun damage and night vision, have been removed on only the players’ character, and the other NPC freaks can still use it. I have been playing in the world without vampirism now for weeks, and I’m happier, and I hope that you are touched by my inspiring classic. I’ll likely be selling it in stores soon.
Oh yeah, here’s a download button to the royal Download.com website:
Launchy 2, the Ultimate Stress Reliever
74 years ago
Launchy 2 is simple; press Alt+Space, and an unobtrusive window comes up. Begin typing in what you are trying to find, be that a program, IE or Firefox bookmark, the square root of 625, or that one picture buried deep within 10 folders of organization. Launchy begins finding as you type, and you can limit it to only find certain files in certain folders (as is the default setting). After you hit Enter, the program goes back to playing your copy of Team Fortress 2 that it was having a good time with before you interrupted it. Version 2 of Launchy comes with a slew of skins (the skin in the picture is known as DefaultUbuntu, which is what I use), and their are box full of plugins that you can download and use. Please note, this program is for Windows only, and is freeware. Are you still reading this? Download it from Launchy.net!
Speed Up Your Computer with Automatic Process Priorities
24 years ago
Even though the title may be confusing to some, the idea is simple. If your computer is trying to run a process (program/application) that is stealing a ton of your computer’s memory, then Process Tamer tells the program to watch it, or you (the user) is going to get mad and break something. For example, I open up Internet Explorer, and gasp!, my computer gets all slow because IE is stealing of my computer’s resources to make it run. Insert Process Tamer, and IE realizes its bad behavior and lets the rest of the computer take some juice.
I have been using this program for a couple days now, and I can actually feel a difference in my computer speed, whenever Firefox trys to eat my computer alive, PT slows it down and the computer continues running normally. Plus, it’s free (like I’ve reviewed shareware?), so why not give it a try? If you don’t feel like visiting the homepage for this program, here is a direct download link. If you want a license key for the software (I don’t know why you would), just signup and the website and have fun.
GolfCard – The Weirdest iPhone App To-Date
44 years ago
As I was reading through my RSS Feeds on RSSOwl (maybe I’ll review it later?), I read about this new app for the iPhone developed by Dave Philips. He calls it: “The iPhone18 Golf Score Card,” and it is pretty much a golf score card for those people who would rather use their fancy new iPhone to log their golf stats instead of that old stuff called paper and pencil. The mighty features of this app include having up to four (fore?) players in one round, 18 holes, and automagic score calculations at the end of the round.
I will admit that it isn’t that bad of an idea; if I had an iPhone I would give it a try sometime. But this goes to show how much developers think that the iPhone is the new phone. They believe that everyone will be using it, so they make crazy stuff like this just to prove it. But what about phones like the Helio Ocean (way cooler than the iPhone, in my opinion), who don’t have the Safari browser, thus making them useless to access all of these cool new iPhone apps that people are making? Developers, think about it, and remember that people do use other phones besides the iPhone.
Vista Transformation Pack – Make XP the New Vista!
24 years ago
Vista Transformation Pack (current version 7.0) is a program that aims to make Windows XP look like Windows Vista. The greatest feature (I think) about the whole package is how well it actually works without you stressing on and on to make it work right. Just install it and you’re done. It’s pretty easy to uninstall too, for those people that think it eats up the system resources (which it doesn’t, unless you also install all those optional addons, the the Vista sidebar). The only complaint that I would have against the whole pack is that it doesn’t come with transparent windows built-in; you have to install WindowBlinds to have that feature.
All in all, if you’re tired of the XP look, get this pack (its free!). I’ve been using it since v6 and I love it; looking at the normal XP look on other people’s computers is annoying, because they don’t know what they’re missing.
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Firefox Addon of the Moment #1
24 years ago
Quick Info
Addon Name: Link Alert
Where to Download: here
Short Description: Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link.
Windows Live SkyDrive Beta Review
04 years ago
Windows Live Folders (beta), recently renamed to Windows Live SkyDrive (beta), and with the name change has come new features. The basic idea of WLS is to give you a space to upload up to 500mb of info from your computer to the internet, to be accessed by you, friends, or everyone (with respective folders). The interface for WLS really didn’t change all that much, and the icons are all the same. The service does have better integration with all of the other live services, like Live Spaces and Hotmail, allowing you to link files from your Live Space to SkyDrive. Compared to other services though, the only benefit WLS has is integration with other Windows stuff, and if you are a fan of branded Windows services, this is for you. For other people, there is Gmail, with Gmail Manager for Firefox, and Avvenu, which lets you get any file off of your computer over the internet for free. Whatever service you choose, just remember to make sure it’s safe; you don’t need strangers getting into your files.