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Website Review: GaiaOnline.com

2007-03-22T20:46:00.000-04:00

Like other communities, Gaia contains a few annoying and frustrating quirks that hinder the overall experience. The question is does the good outweigh the bad? You will just have to read on if you want to find out.

Click here for the full review.

Sonic fansite: SCD

2007-03-02T14:47:00.001-05:00

Sonic Cage Dome is a neat little community dedicated to the Sonic The Hedgehog game series. The site features fan games, online tournaments, offline challenges and a podcast series that centers around SEGA's blue blur. While the main site is down at the moment, you can access these features via the forum. Click this text to check it out.

Handwriting style fonts.

2007-03-01T15:25:00.001-05:00

I always liked the unprofessional looking fonts. The thing is it can be difficult locating really good ones. Thankfully someone has done the busywork already, and presented them as a collection of sorts.

Video Game Development Guide.

2007-03-01T11:00:00.001-05:00

Just starting out as a developer? begin with a simple project and work your way up from there. With limited programing knowledge, a puzzle game would be a good start. Odds are you won't be able to execute all your goals at the beginning. As you become more comfortable with the programing language of your choice, your skills will grow.

The full article can be foundhere.

Play a online Street Fighter...for free!

2006-12-12T21:10:00.001-05:00

With Capcom scared of of releasing another installment of their top fighting franchise against the likes of Tekken, Virtua Fighter and to a lesser extent, DOA, its good to have a loyal community of gamers willing to develop their own version of the game they love. Street Fighter Online is a Shockwave game featuring the Street fighters(Ryu, Chun-Li, M. Bison, etc.) and also Heroes and villians from the Marvel Comics universe(Spiderman, Sentinal, Juggernaut, etc.)

While you can play this game in single player mode, the main draw is Online mode where you compete against others and get ranked based on your win loss record. While the game play is not as smooth as it could/should be(maybe my computer is too old...), you may be able to find some enjoyment from it if you liked the Marvel Vs. series of games. If you do not wish to visit the SFO site every time you want to play, you can snag the downloadable version.

Visit the SFO web site.

myLot

2006-12-06T22:19:00.001-05:00

myLot is a unique and fun online community(which pays you for posting content) filled with members from all
over the world discussing topics of everyday life. myLot is a place
where members can discuss whatever is on their mind. Whether you want
to discuss sports, ask a question on how to find a job, get advice on
dating, or just want to talk about what is bothering you, myLot is here
for you!

myLot’s objective is to offer members a place to interact with others
and to discuss the many different topics of everyday life in a
self-regulated network. When you need an answer to a question, advice
from an un-biased source, or just someone to talk to, myLot members are there to help you in a friendly way.

What makes myLot different from other paid to post web sites is that it actually rewards its members for for quality content, and hinders those who use one liners. I have been a member of the site for a few months now, and normally made $ 0.012 per post. The administrators recently adjusted the earnings algorithm and i currently make $ 0.032 per post. The default minimum payout is $ 10.00(you can set it up to $ 100.00 if you wish), and they accept PayPal or iKobo.

If you are looking for some kind of get rich quick scheme, you wont find it here or anywhere else. The site is good if you would like to generate some extra spending money for a rainy day while discussing a number of different topics with people from all corners of the globe. Click here to create your myLot account.

The fallout shelter handbook

2006-12-01T21:17:00.000-05:00

The article follows the Perkins family, who decided to do a test living in a shelter for seven days. Great revelations include: "Mrs. Perkins missed her kitchen and trips to the beauty parlor," (this was during day four); "By the fifth day, the Perkins family began to realize the seriousness of our times and the value of a shelter..."; and lastly: "...the Perkins family didn't enjoy their stay in a shelter, but, on the other hand, they found that it could be done with a minimum of discomfort and danger."

Better cameraphone photos

2006-11-26T15:04:00.000-05:00

Serious photographers might scoff at the cameraphone as a viable device for taking great photos, but for civilians, it's a perfect tool for documenting your life. Sure it doesn't have the features or the resolution that your regular digicam does, but your cameraphone is always on and in your pocket, so you're more likely to get images with it you never would otherwise.

While the general guidelines of good photography apply to every type of camera, a cameraphone does have specific features and flaws you should keep in mind when snapping. After two years of documenting scenes of my life with my phone, here are some lessons I've learned for getting better photos from your cameraphone.

Email tracking trick.

2006-11-22T10:43:00.000-05:00

When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don't sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.

If your Gmail login name was username@gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead. When Gmail sees a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.

Now whats cool is if you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.

To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address.

Source: Here.

Sorrygottago.com

2006-11-18T20:55:00.000-05:00

Don't you have enough things eating into your precious Web time without the damn phone ringing every few minutes? Well, now the Web fights back with these handy little "sound bytes," providing a medley of perfect excuses for cutting off unwanted conversation. Yes, such classics as "There's the doorbell," "My other line is ringing," and "I can't hear you over the crowd noise" will have you thrilling to a peaceful dial tone in no time. For hard-to-get-rid-of callers like bill collectors, bosses, and mothers, try the fire drill or police siren. There's even a little something for those in rural areas. For the most egregious phone offenders -- telemarketers -- try "I'm listening," replete with lots of "hmmms," "um hmms," and even a "That is really interesting, tell me that again." Wanna know more? Sorry, gotta go.

How to create a bottomless pit

2006-11-16T13:56:00.000-05:00

You look into the pit, and it appears to have no bottom. As you look deep into the pit you hear the faint voice of a child asking for help. The child has fallen into the pit and cannot get out. While this is a very old illusion, I have never seen detailed construction information on the subject. As I constructed mine, I took pictures and notes and I will attempt to give this information along with pictures of the effect and its construction.
I estimate it took about 20 hours to build this effect and cost less than $100 depending on your glass prices.
Before you attempt to start building it I recommend you read through these instructions and look at all the pictures so you will understand the concept.

Cassette tape wallet

2006-11-14T22:02:00.000-05:00

Click the image for the tutorial. I'm thinking a black cassette tape would look allot better.

Coupon codes

2006-11-10T18:18:00.000-05:00

Many online stores allow for a "coupon" or "promotion" code when you order to automatically assign discounts, deals and freebies (kinda like money for nothing). RetailMeNot.com is a place for finding and sharing these coupon codes.
So... when you buy online, check here for discounts first (unless you're frikkin crazy).

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Search and win(Search Chips)

2006-11-08T09:54:00.000-05:00

A few months ago while lurking through a forum, I stumbled across this neat web site that gives users the opportunity to win an assortment of prizes just for using their search engine. The program is called Search Chips and in my opinion it has a edge over sites like Blingo. On Search Chips you collect points(which are of course referred to as chips) for simply using the search engine, completing offers, adding links to your Search Chips web page(mine is a work in progress as you can see.), etc.

Your points can net you a Playstation Portable, An iPod(shuffle, nano, or video), or an PowerShot SD30 Digital ELPH Camera. For using the search engine you can instantly win Fandango or Amazon gift certificates. If you want to check it out, Click the button in the side bar, or here.

SEGA logos

2006-11-07T13:14:00.000-05:00

Allot of interesting things have been done to the SEGA logo over the years. Click here to check out What clever things developers for many of SEGA's consoles have come up with.

Beaterator

2006-11-06T22:08:00.000-05:00

Rockstar Games, the loonies behind the supremely violent and dangerously addictive Grand Theft Auto shoot-em-up games has launched an online music sequencer. They claim that Beaterator gives “the average Joe production abilities that previously never existed freely on the Internet.”
You can upload your own samples, or use the ones in the pre-existing soundbank. Best of all it’s free. You only need to register if you want to save your work. And with the ability to save your tunes as mp3s, and lay down special effects afterwards, why not?

Click here to check it out.

Megaman vs. Ghosts n' Goblins

2006-11-02T22:15:00.000-05:00

Bored? Click here to check out this interesting flash game.

Oct. 31st

2006-10-31T16:28:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween.

....That is all.

Seven ways to light a fire without a match

2006-10-30T07:54:00.000-05:00

#4. Pump Fire Drill
The Iroquois invented this ingenious pump drill, which uses a flywheel to generate friction. The crossbar and flywheel are made of hardwood; the spindle and fireboard are made from softwoods (as in the hand drill).

Step One Bore a hole in the center of a rounded piece of hardwood and force the spindle in so that it fits tightly. Select wood for the crossbar and bore a larger hole that will slide freely on the spindle.
Step Two Attach the crossbar to the top of the spindle with a leather thong or sturdy shoelace.
Step Three Wind up the flywheel so that the thong twists around the spindle, then press down. The momentum will rewind the crossbar in the opposite direction. Repeat until friction creates a glowing ember.

Firefox 2.0 config tweaks

2006-10-28T22:29:00.000-04:00

Beyond the extensive options available in its menus and dialogs, there's a lengthy set of advanced Firefox preferences that can customize the browser to your specific needs. Sure, your brother-in-law's not likely to edit Firefox's default configuration, but you? You're a power surfer and you want your web browser your way.

Killer Rat Cake

2006-10-27T22:57:00.000-04:00

"The Killer Rats Cake was made for Son of Zombiefest, our celebration of the posting of our 300th review. Actually, to be fair to the rats, I don't really know that they killed the man they're eating. It's possible that they simply came upon the severed arm and decided it would make a tasty snack. That's why I referred to it through much of this process as the Rat-Arm Cake, but Barbara May pointed out, and I agreed, that was a very uninspiring title, so The Killer Rats Cake it became."

...Looks delicious...

10 useless or dangerous first aid myths

2006-10-26T21:18:00.000-04:00

9. Throw Your Head Back to Stop a Nosebleed

“Don’t put your head between your knees or tip your head back,” Richard O’Brien, MD, says. The latter is especially bad because you can breathe the blood into your lungs or get it in your stomach and vomit. “Press the fleshy part of your nose,” O’Brien says, “and not the part where your glasses sit - lower than that - as if you are trying to stop a bad smell.” Now - and this is the important part - press firmly for a complete 10 minutes by the clock. “People don’t do that, they let up every three seconds to see if it stopped,” he says. Ten minutes! O’Brien saysthere are also medications and little nostril plugs for people who get frequent nosebleeds. If a nosebleed lasts for more than 15 minutes, occurs following a serious injury, or is accompanied by severe blood loss, you should call your doctor or go to the emergency room.

Wow...G.I. Joe was wrong then. Well now I know...

Click here for the rest of the bad ideas.

Halloween Music

2006-10-25T17:00:00.000-04:00

Oddio Overplay contains two spooky compilations called Ghouls with Attitude (volumes I and II). Each compilation is made up of songs and soundbites for your Halloween fun. It's a little confusing, but just click on the track numbers to download the songs.

Haunted Mansion Source Loops contains the original music and sound effects tracks used on Disney's very cool Haunted Mansion ride.

The Scary Halloween Sounds web site hosts an enormous collection of spooky sounds, offering you several door creaks or goblin sounds to choose from.

Console Case Mods

2006-10-21T15:20:00.000-04:00

Click the image to view more console mods. IMO the portable Dreamcast is the coolest.

(DOT)hack G.U.

2006-10-20T22:03:00.000-04:00

Click image to enlarge. Altimit Corporation Is a web site created to promote a new series of .hack videogames.

Years after the events of the first .hack installment, the popular but dangerous online game "The World" has been resurrected. As Haseo the Terror of Death, players are thrown into his quest for revenge in his search for the mysterious PK (Player Killer) Tri-Edge. This time, players will interact in the real and virtual worlds with fellow "The World" players through various chats, mails, and fully voiced video news clips. Together with Haseo's virtual partners, login to challenge and solve the mysteries of this new environment, "The World: R2".

Interested in learning more about this game series? You can do so by signing up at Altimit Corp. (Click here) Its basically a fanpimp, meaning you take part in the site by promoting the game and earning points. You can use said points to buy neat swag relating to the .hack series(graphic novels, wall scrolls, DVD's of the anime, etc.)

The 50 Worst Things Ever to Happen to Music

2006-10-16T22:16:00.000-04:00

Reason # 4. Neverland Ranch
It’s not as though everything was hunky-dory for MJ before he moved here. But somehow, the star’s retreat into a llama-stocked, Ferris-wheel-equipped, 2,600-acre Southern California funny farm in 1988 didn’t help his psyche. Wacko Jacko may since have emerged from his rustic Xanadu — dangling a baby off a balcony here, facing child-molestation charges there — and moved to Bahrain, but the great pop star he used to be has been lost forever in this multimillion-dollar shrine to childhood.

Click here for the full list.

Would Wide Urban Art.

2006-10-15T20:55:00.000-04:00

Click here to visit Art Crimes.

Online Image Resizer

2006-10-13T18:16:00.000-04:00

An online resize website utility developed for digital camera owners, webmasters, people travelling, my sister or anybody who quickly wants to resize a digital image for email or publishing on a web site. No need to open a photo editor to do this!

This should come in handy to...well, anyone.

Comic Book DS

2006-10-12T18:38:00.000-04:00

Comic Book DS is a program making it possible to read your Comic Books on your Nintendo DS.

The program starts in THUMBNAILS MODE

This mode displays the small images 10 by 10.
Those thumbnails can be selected using the pad or the stylus.
A selected thumbnails is then displayed in overview on the other screen

Various information is displayed in the top part of the screen:

* the total number of images and the current image number (on the top left)
* the total number of thumbnails pages and the current thumbnail page number (on the top right)
* the name of the image (on the bottom)

To display the next (or previous) 10 thumbnails, you can either click on the small hands or you can use the pad (while going on the right with the last image selected, or on the left with the first one selected).
To display a thumbnail in real size, you must either press the L button or click on an already selected thumbnail.

The program then switches to the OVERVIEW MODE
This mode displays a part of the image in real size on one screen and a overview on the touch screen.

Pressing again the L button will set the DUAL SCREEN MODE.
This mode displays the image in real size on both screens.
Pressing again the L button will set the THUMBNAILS MODE (and so on...)

Sonic Robo Blast 2

2006-10-11T21:34:00.000-04:00

Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a 3-D fangame based on Sonic the Hedgehog. Using a modified version of the Doom Legacy source port of Doom, Sonic Robo Blast 2 is intended to replicate the original 2-D Sonic games in 3-D, though it also borrows elements from the current Sonic games as well. It also has several unlockables which replicate other classic games, such as set of Mario-themed levels and a NiGHTS Into Dreams-themed level. It may not better the prettiest game on the planat, but the gameplay is on point(isnt that what matters most?)

Entrance to Hell.

2006-10-10T22:22:00.000-04:00

Gates, doors, windows, alleyways, deep holes, little sneaky openings into horrible nothingness, you get the idea? Entrances. Not descriptions, not statuary, trees, not wine glasses, fences, not signs, not celery.

Google buys YouTube

2006-10-09T17:21:00.000-04:00

...The stock purchase, Google's largest, underscores the pressure on the Mountain View, California-based company from startups such as YouTube and friend-finder Facebook.com, which are creating new markets for film clips and social networking. The acquisition also builds on Google's strategy to add more content to attract advertisers...

Seems google is one step closer to owning the entire internet.

Fun with speach bubbles.

2006-10-09T08:00:00.000-04:00

Artist Ji Lee printed 50,000 speech bubble stickers and stuck them on movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City, then went back and took photos of what people wrote. The results are sometimes hilarious, other times thought provoking. Click this text to check out his site.

One of hip hops grandfathers issues statement to all rappers/fans.

2006-10-08T21:41:00.000-04:00

...there are many wrongs in the worldwide hip-hop community, but there are also many aspects of positivity within the hip-hop community that the media or trade magazines rarely focus upon. Many of you in hip-hop culture don't even listen to the rappers who are trying hard to wake your asses up to what is going on in the bigger scale than of what you see in your neighborhoods, their message goes in one ear and out the other.

Click the above text to read the full statement from Afrika Bambaataa. Sad thing is, this will most likely be ignored by most fans. It seems the only way people will listen to truth is if Tupac comes back to life, says the exact same thing, then proceeds to smack the shit out of whoever is selling the most.

The absolute worst cosplay.

2006-10-08T21:21:00.000-04:00

...This is a phenomena that must be stopped. Men dressed as Sailor Senshi, overweight middle-aged women dressed as the Misu sisters, anyone cosplaying as a member of the Neon Genesis Evangelion or Shoujo Kakumei Utena casts---these are the people who can single-handedly ruin a decent convention. I'm talking 400 lb.+ Tenjou Utena's cavorting about here....

Click here to check out the horrid, horrid side of being an anime fan.

Win stuff for searching the web? Blingo!

2006-10-07T21:49:00.000-04:00

Blingo is a website powered by Google, that gives users the chance to win prizes just by searching the web through its engine(your first 10 searches per day are eligible for a prize). Click the banner or here to sign up for it free.

I love free music!

2006-10-06T21:00:00.000-04:00

If you miss what rap used to be like, Check out Crooklyn's Classics for old school hip hop downloads. If you want to search for all kinds of music but cant find much of anything through your average search engine? try using Singingfish, Awesome website that can link you to direct song/video downloads. For comclete albums, make an account over at Albumbase(put kataztrophy as the referral), for retro and new music in any genre.

Perhapes the greatest combo since PB&J?

2006-10-06T18:02:00.000-04:00

... 8-track guitar? Aight so it doesnt look that slick, but the concept is beautiful.

Al Yankovic is back

2006-09-26T22:07:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZ4yYrsilc

I Think Im gonna buy his new album, his parodies seem to be ten times better than what the mainstream fans usually get to hear.

Testing/Welcome

2006-09-21T11:56:00.000-04:00

Welcome to Bizzaro world.... Toped Modnar!

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