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    1月30日

    Mikes Retro Software of the week 1/30/08

    A long time ago in a remote windows 95 machine I had a cool little game called Scorched Earth. 250px-Scorched_Earth_for_DOS_screenshot

     

    Scorched Earth is one of many games in the loose genre of "turn-based artillery games". Such games are among the earliest computer games, with versions existing for mainframes with only teletype output. Scorched Earth, with a plethora of weapon types and power-ups, is considered the modern archetype of its format, on which the popular Worms, Hogs of War and GunBound games are based.

    Its slogan, "The Mother of all Games," was coined in 1991, during the Gulf War, after Saddam Hussein threatened the U.S. that if they stepped on Iraqi soil, it would be "The Mother of all Wars."

    Download Scorched Earth Original(Requres Windows Live Signin) Scorched Earth

    Download Scorched Earth 3D (Requres Windows Live Signin) Scorched 3D

     

     

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    1月28日

    Windows 7 Milestone 1 leaked.

    The Question is why and the answer is: Please be better than Vista! Notice how much it still looks like Vista however you would have to expect that.

     

    Start Menu

    startmenu

     

    PowerShell

    powershell

     

    Display Properties

    display

     

    Control Panel

    controlpanel 

     

    Desktop

    7desktop

     

    Welcome Center

    welcomcenter 

    System Tray.

    systray

     

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    Rockband Drumset works on Windows.

    So I was surfing Youtube for my latest and greatest music videos when I got the urge to see if anyone had posted some interesting videos on Rockband.

     
    Rock Band Drums on the PC.

     

    To my suprise I found this dude had put together an app to use your drums that are included with the Rockband game on youDrumMachine pc.  This is so cool. I can now play the drums record my session and share it with the world via Youtube or your favorite video site. Another great how to get windows xp to recognize your usb drumset head on over to Matt Hackmanns Blog.

     

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    1月27日

    XBOX 360 *Free Game Update*

    undertow2Remember when I talked about a free game will be given out for lack  of network performance from Microsoft? Well without much fanfare Microsoft decided the game: "Undertow"  would be the freebie. I understand that the game will only be available until tomorrow **unconfirmed**.  So get it fast before its not free. undertow

     

     

     

     

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    1月23日

    Zune Playlists Easy to Create?

    I was pondering late last night how can I get along with the new Zune software. No more name calling and bashing the moderators at Zune.net forums. I needed to be a responsible Zunian(no I am not an alien. Just of Zune citizenship) and do more investigating.  Here is how the XML is laid out for both the Windows media playlist file and the Zune Media Playlist file.

    Here goes my case:

    Windows Media Playlist or WPL

    <?wpl version="1.0"?>
    <smil>
        <head>
            <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 11.0.6000.6344"/>
            <meta name="AverageRating" content="0"/>
            <meta name="TotalDuration" content="5676"/>
            <meta name="ItemCount" content="1"/>
            <title>Happy</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <seq>
                <media src="Fun\mikedopp_This_is_mikedoppcom.mp3"/>
            </seq>
        </body>
    </smil>

     

    Zune Playlist or ZPL

    <?zpl version="2.0"?><smil>
      <head>
        <meta name="generator" content="Zune -- 2.1.888.0" />
        <meta name="itemCount" content="1" />
        <meta name="totalDuration" content="5458563" />
        <meta name="averageRating" content="0" />
        <title>7Habits</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <seq>
    <media src="C:\ZUNE\Music\New\mikedopp_dropitlikeitsdopp.mp3" /> 
        </seq>
      </body>
    </smil>

    So the difference is?

    <?wpl version="1.0"?>

    and 

    <?zpl version="2.0">

    In my logical thinking as a Zunian I figured lets just make a template and be happy.

    First things first in order for the Zune software to see your mp3's, wma's or wmv's you need to point the software to the right directories. This will assume you already know how to do so.

    You will need to edit using notepad or my favorite notepad2 the <meta name="itemcount" to make sure the content number equals the correct number of well items in the mp3 etc directory.

     

    The <media src=""> tag is very important in that you need an absolute path defined for where the media is vs. Happy directory \ song name.

    Another concern was does the Zune care about the <meta name="totalDuration" content="5458563" /> ? The answer is no not so much. So my answer would be don't worry too much about this as the playlist will work just fine without it.

     

    So here is the .zol file you can rename to "whatever.ZPL" and add your own tags and or information ie mp3 and or video. 

    <?zpl version="2.0"?>
    <smil>
      <head>
        <meta name="generator" content="Zune -- 2.1.888.2" />
        <meta name="itemCount" content="1" /> <!-- make sure the correct number of itemCount per song-->
        <meta name="totalDuration" content="0" />
        <meta name="averageRating" content="0" /> 
        <title>Happy</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <seq>
          <media src="C:\ZUNE\Music\New\mikedopp_dropitlikeitsdopp.mp3" />     
        </seq>
      </body>
    </smil>
     
    <!-- Zune Playlist notes:
         you definitly need to use the itemcount and keep it accurate. total duration can be 0 as well 
    as averageRating Make sure you have absolute paths with media src and type them out.-->

    Or you can open up Windows media player drag all the songs you want to be in a playlist as long as they can be seen by the zune software and save the playlist that was just created into the folder that you have the music and the zune software can see..

    Once created right click on the .wpl file and rename it to .zpl. The zune software will do the rest.

     

    Enjoy!

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    Mikes Retro Software of the Week.

    Novell Novell's NetDrive.

    Transferring files to and from your blog's web server can become a nuisance. Most of the pain is from having to use an FTP program to move your files instead of the file NetDrive manager you are accustom to. Novell's NetDrive can make this file juggling almost transparent. NetDrive lets you map your FTP server just like a local drive. Manage your files exactly like you would your offline files and NetDrive will do the uploading and downloading almost transparently.

    Licensing restrictions keep Novell from distributing netdrive.exe on their web site so you will need to find it on the web.

    System Requirements: Windows XP-Vista an FTP Account to connect to. A lot of patience due the fact this software was buggy to begin with.

    Very Hard to find little app. NetDrive.exe

     

     

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    1月15日

    Xobni invites

    Xobni Banner 

    I have 3 Invites. Xobni Icon

    Fulfill your invite wants and needs by leaving a comment for me or go to windowsobserver.com I will give to the first three to comment.

     

    Xobni Insight is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers effortless email management and provides instant access to the most important information in your email.

    After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly your Outlook productivity will burst to life with blazing fast email search, automatic phone number discovery, threaded conversations, and more.

    Watch our demo video, or read below to see how Xobni Insight improves your email experience. Or better yet, sign up to try the beta right now.

     

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    Mikes Retro Software of the week.

    I was going through all my old backups and laughing at some of the old software I thought was important. I noticed allot of cool stuff I had long past forgotten. So to define Retro would be "its old to me" so that makes it retro. I hope you guys enjoy this I will make a feed of it and post hopefully every Wednesday.

    Some of this software may or may not work on your pc. I hardly remember the system requirements but I will do my best to give detailed info on how to run it. Enjoy!

    This Week we start off with: MSBOBBobSmile

     

     

    Microsoft Bob, designed for Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 and intended to be a user-friendly interface for Microsoft Windows, replacing the Program Manager. At one point, the project was managed by Melinda French, who at the time was Bill Gates' girlfriend (the two later married).[At the time French left Microsoft, she was Product Unit Manager for a group which included Bob and three other Microsoft titles. The project leader for Bob was Karen Fries, a Microsoft researcher. Microsoft originally owned the domain name bob.com, but traded it to Bob Kerstein for the windows2000.com domain.

     

     

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    1月14日

    Exercise and the Wii?

    Part of the reason I purchased a Wii was for the stand up get out of your seat and pray you don't put your wii-mote through the big screen tv movement. I might be a bit late on this but check out some of the cool "exercise gaming" you can do.

    Wii Fit WiiFit

     

     

     

    Or check out the Wii Weight Loss Program.

    Makes it so I can cancel my GoldsGym Pass. Woot! WiiWeightLossProgram

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    SimCity Has gone Open Source.

    Woot! is all I can say.

     SimCity

    Sadly not for windows. However give it time.

    Here is a link to the Classic Simcity

    Link to the Open Source Project known as Micropolis

     

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    1月9日

    The Web 2.0ish in Video

    Someday Active X will be abolished. IE8?

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    1月8日

    Free Xbox Live Game

    Xbox LIVE Holiday Performance

    As many of you know, I have been keeping you up to date on the status of Xbox LIVE. Here is an official message from Marc Whitten (Notwen) GM of Xbox LIVE on where we are and what we are going to do. Again, thanks for your patience.

    Dear Xbox LIVE Members:                                                                                                    

    During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records.  This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service. 

    As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break.  While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance.  I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state. 

    At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service.  And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge.  In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you. 

    Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today! 

    Sincerely,

    Marc Whitten

    General Manager, Xbox LIVE

    Gamertag: Notwen

    Sweet Cannot wait.

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    1月7日

    RSS Feed Reader and Feeds

    I am a avid reader of feeds. I love pulling down content and reading it. I view RSS Feeds like my daily newspaper. Needing a daily taste of tech news and gossip.

     

    Online RSS Readers(web based):

    PageFlakes    48px-Feed-icon.svg

    Windows Live

    Google Reader

    feedburner

     

    Email Readers:

    Outlook

    Yahoo

     

    Client Side RSS readers:

    RssBandit

    SharpReader <-My favorite

    Many Many More...

    The Best RSS readers will allow import and export of OPML files. What is OPML? Good question.

    "OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators." -Wikipedia.org

    Here is my everyday RSS "newspaper" Download me

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    Rockband microphone issues Xbox360

      As you all know I love the Xbox360 especially the party games such as Halo3 and Guitar Hero 3. So naturally when I walked by the Gamestop in my local mall I noticed this large black box with big bold lettering "RockBand" and wow I was interested. I inquired within(Gamestop). Found a setup that matched my console(Xbox360) and inquired about the cost. $180 seemed quite steep but it came with the drums and microphone. What really sold it for me was how excited my wife was to play it.

    So I brought it home. RockBand Special Edition Unboxed the components and sure enough there was all the greatness that I paid for sitting inside. I hurried and setup the drums and pulled out the guitar as well as my Guitar hero guitar(because it works with this also *Bonus*) Turned on the Game and all the components lit up on the green circle of xbox360 love except the microphone.

    Logitech RockBand Microphone

     

     

     

    After close examination I was very concerned it was yet another Logitech device. Grrr! So I looked within the box maybe I missed some documentation on setting up the microphone cause it was still dysfunctional. I did come across the pink paper entitled: "Stop Please don't return any Rock Band Hardware...."

    I went to the support page: http://support.ea.com/rockband . No answers there either. I contacted the support number on the web site and waited 2 hours to talk to someone that had to explain that I needed a xbox360 controller turned on with the microphone to make it work.

    So the whole reason for this was to let all those who are frustrated with the microphone like me. Calm down, relax. You now know how to work the blessed microphone  with the Xbox360. EA needs better than no instructions on how to make the microphone work.

    Rock ON!

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    1月4日

    Kick someone from Terminal Services

    If you work in a terminal services office like I do. It gets a tad annoying when you really need to get some work done and your co-worker/s has a session he is not using. Especially useful when trying to remote desktop into a xp machine.

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    Use this little command line fun :

    mstsc -v:[UrServerNameOrIP] /console

    you could possibly even create a shortcut to do this from your desktop.

    Or just walk over to your system admin/network admin and coerce them into purchasing more licenses for terminal services.

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    1月3日

    Adaptec GameBridge AVC-1410/1510

    So I was looking at woot a while back and I got a two for tuesday.I was excited to get the packages. I opened them up with great anticipation.Read the instructions and grabbed the driver cd and lo and behold it was blank?Surely this cant be on both products right? Sure enough both were blank cd's.So I went to adaptec's support site and there was no drivers ugh. So I googled. I could not find these drivers anywhere. I did however find these on a ftp site that I have lost the link to.
     
     
    Product Description:

    Adaptec GameBridge AVC-1410/1510 Loader: With GameBridge there is no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots with the enhanced graphical resolution of your computer monitor.
    Take snapshots of high scores or levels or record videos of great maneuvers, and save them to your hard disk or external drives, CDs, or DVDs.
    GameBridge TV also provides a very affordable way to add an extra TV or to gain the benefits of a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). Schedule recordings. Take snapshots of any scene. The integrated remote control lets you select from up to 125 channels. Even preview a channel before you choose it.thumb_avc-1410

    Operating System Requirements:

    This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

    • Windows NT 4
    • Windows XP
    • Windows 2003
    • Windows 2000
    • Windows ME
    • Windows NT
    • Windows 98
    Additional Requirements:
    • Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003

     

    Download Burncdcc for iso burning to a cd.

    Download Adaptec Gamebridge Iso

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    1月2日

    Mikes Links Monday 1/2/08

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Just a healthy reminder to go through your fridge looking for these condiments and well clean according. **sarcasm**. I saw this and had to spread the love. How bout this one:

     

    Please Insert cd in floppy drive...

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Happy New Year!! (2008)

     

     

    Links Time:

    Computers and the Internet According to normal users.

    AirTalkr (adobe air IM)

     I recieved a rubiks revenge for christmas (this explains that)

    Jam Studio(online music factory)

    Unison file synchronizer

    Girlfriend software

    online dj mix sofware(free)

    Use Gmail as a online music streamer

     

    Shameless Plug o' The week:

    Wicked cool Wedding and family video developer

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