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Check out this game. It was created totally in GameMaker.  It has brilliant animations, some really cool humour, lovely sound effects, animated cut scenes.. THE WORKS!

Here’s a screenshot I borrowed from the website:

Click for a bigger view.

This is the velociraptor you move around in the game. He can: walk, run, jump, backflip, climb walls, duck, crawl, swim, bite, tailwhip, pounce, ground-slam and carry objects.

The animation is very smooth and very well done. It has some particle effects and even water splashes up and animates ripples on the surface if he walks in it.

You can download a demo version from the Sixty Five Million and One BC website and then pay US$20 for the full game and play all 35 large levels!

Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux

You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you’ve got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Windows installation disk, you can have Windows apps running right on your Linux desktop and sharing the same desktop files. It’s relatively painless, it takes only a little bit longer than a Windows XP install, and it works just like virtualizing Windows on a Mac with Parallels Coherence—except it’s free. Here’s how to set up Windows inside VirtualBox, and then get Windows apps running seamlessly inside your desktop.

Before getting started, make sure you have enough space on a hard drive for a Windows XP installation (meaning at least 5 GB) and enough memory to make two systems worthwhile.You can follow most of these steps if you want to try running Vista inside Linux, but your mileage might vary, of course (and check out this tip on making Vista’s networking work).

Handy to know!

DVD Burning software for Windows: DVD Flick.

About DVD Flick

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.

Features

• Burn near any video file to DVD
• Support for over 45 file formats
• Support for over 60 video codecs
• Support for over 40 audio codecs
• Add your own subtitles
• Easy to use interface
• Burn your project to disc after encoding
• Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

For a more detailed list of features, see the Features page.

This page linked here has listed a bunch of “Best, Free Alternatives to Nero CD/DVD Burner” software for Windows.

Anybody got an idea of a freeware application for Windows XP to monitor the amount of usage for each application and how often it’s used?  I want to see which are the most used Windows XP applications without writing down each time I launch one. Be nice if it drew a graph you could look at.

I want to switch over totally to Linux, but want to be sure I will have all the applications I want to use on it.  My main concerns are:

1. iPod - I know I won’t be able to use my DRM’d iTunes music, but I think amaroK can manage iPod music nicely and gPodder for podcasts.

2.  One I know I won’t be able to replace is the application to connect my k800i mobile phone to the PC and synchronise calendar, contacts and notes. For some reason nobody has written an Open Source freeware application to do this.  For starters, I’d expect I’d need specific drivers to allow Linux to see the Sony/Ericsson k800i phone and be able to connect to it for synchronising.   The good thing is this phone can be put into FILE mode and it appears as two USB drives in Windows, so I expect this will probably work fine with Linux for copying images and movies on/off the device.

Looking for a new game to play? Perhaps a web based one to play at work

Just found this: OzGames200. Click it.. don’t click it.. who cares KANGAROOS!

Also you can try Top Web Games.

I decided to actually get something productive done while sick at home today and have started working on some articles to do with computer security.

Check out the article so far on my OakleyIT website and let me know what you think. If there’s anything I can add or change, please feel free to post a comment.

http://www.oakleyit.com.au/content/view/15/26/