New Years (Late) Update

Well I’ll start of by saying Happy late new years! Been busy since new year working through some new years resolution lists ~_^
Well what kept me busy? Work obviously. Been trying to clear up loads of junk on my PC, backing up files etc. Also had to revise for an examination on the last week, and doing more work on my projects. Examination was okay. There was fair amount to write about, which usually lead to getting cramps on my hand.
No updates posted on these as of yet. All I can say that AGT project is way ahead of it’s schedule and my level 3 AI project is pretty much in sync, although appearing to have some bugs and issues which should be managable. As for Air Roar, I received a nice comment from the guy behind Pyrogine2D and he is eager for me to use their API for Air Roar, although I’m already in the process of putting together my work for XNA, I will eventually try an implementation of this game through Pyrogine API sometime in the near future, but highest priorities to my Uni projects.

Up on my list of todos is to begin putting up my old work on my blog. List includes:

• RPG Game Engine made in OpenGL.
• Some old maps I created for CS:S and Half-Life single-player level.
• Very old but cool console text-based adventure game.
• A number of 3D rendering works.
• Video files.
• A number of C++/C# tools I’ve made since.
• Oh and Rm2k games, which aren’t finished but have nice fully functioning custom battle systems.

Well next section of this post is usually stuff I found on the net.

See these images below:

All done in less than 10 mins, no joke intended.
You can make hi-res wallpapers like these here: http://www.wallpapermaker.net
Free to use wallpaper maker tool. Have fun! ^_^

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Streaming and listening to full albums from bands is never easier if you actually check up on http://www.deezer.com/

For the past week I’ve recently been listening to whole band albums through this site. Nice quality songs. You don’t really need to register for the site to start listening to music. Just add the artist/album in the search file and start listening. Signing up is only for creating your own playlist and sharing your playlist to other members. I haven’t registered therefor I am unsure on whether your playlist can be imbedded.

Another I always recommend is Pandora. I’m sure many of you have heard of this awesome site but for those that haven’t, simply enter in some favourite bands/music and with Pandora it will play songs that sound appropriate to the band/song you’ve entered. Pretty neat and interesting use in querying songs of similar sounds.

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Tiinker

Usually early in the morning I spend a couple of hours reading news, blogs etc and it can sometimes eat more than just a couple of hours. Eventually you’ve spent 3+ hours without even having breakfast(LOL) and you eventually figured out that you’ve wasted most of your time reading inappropriate news. This happens regulary.
Then eventually I read up on http://tiinker.com/ and decided to give this new tool a try.
What it does is simply gives you a number of articles appropriate in different news/blog categories such as science, sports, technology etc and you give thumbs up or thumbs down for each short brief article summary. Depending on these ratings it will eventually spew out articles that interest you most. From here on you can continue fine-tuning your articles.
I’ve seen some improvements as I’ve been using it for the past couple of days. Your feed the articles in RSS and put onto your Google home page, which is very handy for me.

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Thank You Notes

If you ever felt the need to thank someone for something and you can’t clearly put right a good “thankyou” note, you can check http://www.thank-you-note-samples.com. It has samples of thank you notes. I dont know when these would come in handy, but its something I thought was pretty interesting.

Ron