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Multi-column layout generators |
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There are obvious advantages to use tableless layout in web page design. Someone selected table design because it's too time consuming to get css layout to work. Even the designers of CSS standard think it's difficult. That's why there comes up with new syntax in CSS3 on columns. But this will change. The layout generators newly launched will benefit every real web designers. The layout uses only CSS2 so it's compatible with all browers. It will be an easy step to design, read more...
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| | permapage | score:9971 | -Ken Lee, December 28, 2008 |
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An open letter to Blizzard Management |
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Congratulations on your wildly successful game, World of Warcraft. As a PVP strategy game designer myself, I'd like to point out one of the characteristics of your game that sometimes goes unnoticed but is key to its success.
You have created a consistent environment where we can all play in our own way. People say WoW is casual-friendly. I think it is freedom-friendly. We each are free to play with as much or as little structure as we see fit.
The fact that people with such wildly varying play styles and interests can find satisfaction in your world is the ever-present principle that has led to WoW's broad appeal.
I've seen the argument many times that 'WoW is a PVE game'. WoW is much more than that. WoW will always consist of a mostly PVE environment. But to me, the PVE world is simply part of the environment where I can partake as much -- or as little -- as I want.
Personally, I don't like highly structured PVE encounters with considerable -- and required -- multi-player coordination. Fortunately for me, you've created multiple tiers of progressively more structured PVE encounters. I occasionally do 5-man instances and I've even done a few 10-man raids, but I quickly grow tired of the overhead and bored of scripted encounters. I spend far more time in the non-instanced PVE world.
Similarly, battleground PVP and arena PVP have very different styles of play that appeal to very different players. With arenas, the structure and overhead of communication and coordination, the creation and maintenance of a team, the scheduling of play time, and the composition analysis and re-comping of a team are all demands that detract from the fun -- for some. Others use their management and analysis skills, their knowlege of other classes, and their self-discipline to set themselves apart in arenas.
Battlegrounds, on the other hand, are available to everyone any time. The game handles the creation of teams and you can communicate and coordinate as much or as little as you see fit. Battlegrounds are low-overhead PVP fun, on demand.
Please don't make the decision to forever lump battlegrounds and arena into a single vision of PVP. Please don't let someone's vision of 'integrated PVP' dictate and limit how players can have fun in your game. Separate the requirements of battlegrounds and arenas and let people do either or both -- without arbitrary interdependencies. Envision it as multiple tiers of PVP; non-instanced, battlegrounds, and arenas. And then let their rewards stand alone. Give battlegrounds their own tier of gear again, free from requirements of arena points and ratings. Let battlegrounds reward gear of sufficient quality to keep -- and grow -- the huge battleground player base. |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9966 | -Ray, September 25, 2008 |
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Free Linux shell accounts |
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A shell account is a personal account that gives a user access to a Unix shell on a remote server, usually accessed through SSH (and historically telnet). A shell account can be used for many different purposes because many different programs can be run on the shell. It might be used to try out another operating system, running IRC clients or bots, compile and run source code and scripts, to host websites, or to use e-mail services. It might be possible to run programs on the server even while not connected, using background jobs or programs such as the GNU screen terminal multiplexer.
Most servers have policies in place on the accounts that limit different kind of resources, like disk usage (Disk quota) or processes.
On some free shell accounts services, if there is no login to a particular account for a long period of time, that account may get automatically deleted. Free shell account services often do not allow background processes. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9955 | -onnet, March 31, 2009 |
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Empires Of Galldon |
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Empires Of Galldon (EoG) has been the underdog of the browser based strategy community for nearly 3 years now due to outdated coding & a small fan base.
However, I've fully revamped the coding on the server and re-released the website under EoGv9.3b
Set in the medieval ages, you will be playing against other players online in an epic battle for survival in this never-ending, free to play for life strategy. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9945 | -Stevoboi, April 5, 2009 |
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Game and Mobile Game Development Projects |
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Shinbe.org is a great site that contains a very good collection of mobile game and PC game projects. You can post your comments about various projects there. There are projects in mobile application and game that support Windows Mobile, BREW, Symbian, Java / J2ME. There are also other projects in PC application and game including 2D Game or 3D Game.
Shinbe.org also covers programming tips & tutorials especially about game development in mobile device and PC. All games projects and tutorials are programmed using C or C++ and combining various engines to make a full playable game.
Shinbe.org also provided news about technology in games development like game engines, graphics engines or physic engines, news about Software Development Kit (SDK) for specific project, for examples Windows Mobile SDK, BREW SDK, etc. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9927 | -shinbe, January 27, 2009 |
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Customizing Windows Vista |
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When you first turn on your new computer system, you see the Windows desktop as Microsoft (or your computer manufacturer) set it up for you. If you like the way it looks, great. If not, you can change it.
Windows presents a lot of different ways to personalize the look and feel of your desktop. In fact, one of the great things about Windows is how quickly you can make the desktop look like your desktop, different from anybody else’s.
Windows Control Panel:
Virtually all of Windows’ settings are configured via the Control Panel. You open the Control Panel by clicking the Start button and selecting Control Panel; from there, what you see depends on which version of Windows you’re using. In Windows Vista, the Control Panel looks like the one shown in Figure 1. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9924 | -qjokobloon, February 24, 2009 |
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Zubby.com: A New and Friendly Social Network |
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Are you tired of joining an online community only to find that the people are rude, the content is graphic, and the staff is unreachable? Zubby.com, the internets newest online community, is different. Zubby.com will live up to your expectations and more!
Zubby's family friendly approach to social networking not only attracts likeminded individuals but ensures that you, your family, and your friends will have a great time sharing ideas and meeting new people.
At Zubby.com, unlike many other sites, the friendly atmosphere is immediately apparent. The founder and site operator, Randy Zlobec, set out to make a community where its members would be safe from unwanted adult images and graphic videos. This idea has been eagerly adopted by the Zubby.com members and has set the tone for the entire site. By simply visiting any member's page you will see that they, and their page visitors, are encouraging, inspiring, humorous, and gracious. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9921 | -S Perryman, December 30, 2007 |
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Free Games should be Free |
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Ever wonder why playing Free Online Games often requires a membership? Yeah, you can play 10 or so games as a guest, but then comes the part of giving up your email address and bulking up on more spam. Great!
We don't like that scenario either. That's why we designed www.getgameshere.com. A site with no membership section, ever. The site is filled with free games to play, for free.
The collection is no where near as large as other gaming sites. It is being carefully hand picked to select only quality games.
We hope you'll like our idea. The site has a contact area where you can drop us a line and let us know. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9920 | -Gamer 99, August 29, 2008 |
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Dress Up Games, Fashion Games |
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| Play dress up games and fashion games on Roiworld's official site. Create your own style and compete with others. Dress up celebs, participate in challenges, and earn points. Play for free. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9919 | -tessa, May 10, 2009 |
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The Game Homepage |
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The Game Homepage (TGH) is a great site if you're trying to find games. Whether it's quick games just to burn some time, or involved games that take days to beat, you'll find your type of game!
TGH even has a score competition section where you can compete with other users for high scores! read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9918 | -Marcos Boyington, June 4, 2008 |
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Top Ten Obscure Video Games |
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The best eleven games you never tried...
The launch of the Xbox 360, to use a timeless cliché phrase, marked the beginning of the end for this generation. In less than a year, Nintendo and Sony will have replaced their consoles for a 3rd PlayStation and a supposed Revolution. When people look back at this generation, gamers will remember Halo, Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft, and 1,001 Mario titles.
What about the games that did not have a built-in audience? read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9917 | -Ray, December 5, 2005 |
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WaooGames.com : Free games online |
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WaooGames present a collection of free games on line classified by category.
Go through the list of the games classified by category, either make a keyword search. Go through the top 5 of the games the most played in every category. For a better comfort you can run the games in full screen mode.
The categories presented are :
- Action Games
- Agility Games
- Shooting Games
- Racing Games
- Fighting Games
- Sports Games
- Strategy Games
- Simulation Games
- Adventure Games
- Cerebral Games
- Memory - Observation
- Card Games - Board
- Gambling Games - Luck
- Puzzle Games
- Kids Games
- Dress up Games - Fashion
- Fun Games - Trash
- Other Games read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9912 | -ellobo, November 14, 2008 |
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Free games for your blog and site |
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http://www.leengames.com is the biggest online games portal with more thn 2000 free online games to play and to embed in your site.
www.leengames.com has moved in Alexa ranks by 11,000,000 ranks to be in the first 200k sites within 2 months since the day of launchig 1st january 2008, and that is an unpreceeded move in the Middle East as the site is launched from Dubai.
the site is in the transitional period to move to a new system of play and earn, which is that all players shall be played independintly while they are playing, which means in other words, that leengames.com will pay for any player whom play any game or reffer any player to play these games as he plays. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9910 | -leengames, April 7, 2008 |
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YUNiTi: Social Networking at its best |
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YUNiTi combines the best of both MySpace and the Facebook. YUNiTi.com allows you to be creative with your page, adding colorful backgrounds and flashing slideshows, but it also gives you the security of Facebook, with your choice of privacy settings. The site aims to gain international popularity which will allow more people to get to know each other and create a diverse network.
Most importantly, YUNiTi is for all ages - even for users under 13 years of age as long as they have a parent present during signup.
Some of YUNiTi's most noted features:- Users can create their own forums and chatrooms
- Users can create custom, professional, web 2.0-style profiles
- Users can quickly hide any part of their profile to a group of friends, including their age
- Users can validate that they are who they say they are using ValidateID
- Built in tools to create your own quizzes and polls
- Highly customizable updates (know when your friends added a photo, were tagged in a photo, wrote a blog, and more!)
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| | permapage | score:9907 | -Marcos Boyington, May 30, 2008 |
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Free UNIX Shell Accounts |
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At Blinkenshell.org you can get your own personal shell account on a Linux server for free!
The service includes 24/7 access to a Linux server with SSH and SFTP to securely log in to the shell and transfer files. You can use the account to host dynamic webpages with PHP, CGI and SQL databases, access IRC and stay connected 24/7 using detachable screen, compile your own programs and run scripts in several languages and more. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9901 | -independence, January 16, 2008 |
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MailCatch.com: No setup, disposable email addresses |
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Tired of getting spammed again and again? Worried about all the resources waster to store those spams worldwide?
Worry no more, MailCatch.com is there!
MailCatch provides its users with disposable temporary and anonymous mail accounts to catch spam instead of your own email address.
But wait, it is even better than it sounds, you do not need to register, or signup, or even *go* to the site to create your mailbox. When you are on a site requesting your email simply enter an address like foo@mailcatch.com. The server will create it automatically. Then you go to the site, check it and be on your way.
Also features RSS feed and mail forwarding!
All that is available without polluting the planet as MailCatch does not store the mails it receives, they live in memory for a few hours and they they disappear forever! No traces, no pollution! read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9896 | -Sorkny, August 9, 2008 |
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