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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 22nd, 2006
  • Comments: 2

Games for the Weekend 5 Base Invaders

The objective in the highly additive freeware game Base Invaders is simple: Defend your central tower. Hordes of aliens, among them the feared drillers, ninjas and bombers try to overcome the obstacles that the player creates to lay siege to the central tower. Every structure in the game can be planted by the player, reminds me a bit of the famous Dungeon Keeper games by Bullfrog.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 20th, 2006
  • Comments: 19

Why you should switch your parents pc to ubuntu

About a month ago my mother called and asked if I could help her with a problem on her computer that I build and installed for her. The computer reacted slowly to her input and was opening unknown websites for no reason. It was immediately clear that some sort of spyware or even worse virus or trojan was responsible for this behavior. She was really desperate and I began to scan the system immediately.

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 15th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Game for the Weekend 4 Battle for Wesnoth

You know it must be Friday when I’m introducing a new game for the weekend. This time it is a strategy game called Battle for Wesnoth. Maybe some of you know the classic games Shining Force by Sega, Final Fantasy Tactics by Square and Fire Emblem by Nintendo. All are turn based strategy games – so is Battle for Wesnoth which can be downloaded for free for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 29th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Zombie City Tactics

Sometimes it’s the small free games that are more fun to play than the large commercial games. Zombie City Tactics is such a game. It’s about 2 megabytes in size and beats many commercial games in the most important criteria of them all: gameplay. I’m not the only one who thinks that graphics are way overrated when judging games. Sure Gears of War is a nice game, but a really good one ? I don’t think so.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Remove the Advertising in Games like Battlefield 2142

Ingame advertising will become more common in the next years. One of the first games that makes extensive use of ingame advertisement is EA Games Battlefield 2142. Once connected to the server it displays ads in the game that are displayed by a calculation of variables like your geolocation or time you did spend looking at an ad.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 24th, 2006
  • Comments: None

About Secret Folders and Cleaning

I did ask about your secret folder in last weeks poll and surprisingly the majority declined to have one. 38% of all voters said that they do not have a secret folder for files that only they care about which leads to the question why. Do they live alone and don’t have to hide everything in a folder because there is no girlfriend / boyfriend snooping around ? 23% said that their secret folder was bigger than 10 gigabytes which is huge.

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Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 16th, 2006
  • Comments: 10

Ultrastar – Singstar like game for your PC

Have you ever played Singstar on the Playstation 2 ? It is a Karaoke like game that is great fun if you play it with some friends. Ultrastar looks clearly like it was inspired by Singstar. The big advantage ? It is completely free and offers many texts for songs on various websites on the internet. You need to download the Ultrastar main program from Sourceforge at the beginning, it is only 500k which means it should be a fast download even for slow connections.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

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