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I am a fan of DOS games, and I used to play this game a lot, many years ago - Wolfenstein 3D. So recently, when I looked it up, I was pleasantly surprised to see the game still alive and kicking on its 17th birthday, and it has even been ported onto so many platforms like Gameboy, Atari, Apple Mac, and the iPhone. If you want a very light, playable, 3D game, Wolfenstein 3D still rocks.

Today, everyone regards Wolfenstein as the granddaddy of all 3D games, because that was the game that launched it all. Everything else 3D came after that. For a 3D action game that only weighs 2+ megabytes, and takes up only minuscule memory on today’s PCs, this is still a highly enjoyable game. Read the rest of this entry »

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I still use Internet Explorer (and Chrome) sometimes, especially if some websites render better in them. If you use IE a lot, you may notice that it slows down after a while. Many times, it’s due to cookies. This post is mainly concerning IE 7. Some issues you might experience that could be helped by optimizing your IE installation include, but are not limited to:

• Your IE installation might be producing errors that say IE has encountered an error and must close (happens with Firefox too).
• Internet connectivity issues resulting in frequent inaccurate 404 errors
• Your computer begins loading webpages at an abnormally slow speed
• There may be a high number of pop ups intruding on your web browsing time

Here’s a very simple way to reset cookies on Internet Explorer, and optimize it: Read the rest of this entry »

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Network and internet connectivity issues can be caused by a whole host of different things ranging from hardware failures including cabling and NIC card to ISP outages and router failures. Previously, I mentioned how to set up a remote access VPN connection; now let’s take a look at how to troubleshoot network connection problems.

The most important thing to remember when troubleshooting anything is to check the easiest and most obvious possibilities first. It can certainly be embarrassing when it takes several days to determine the problem was a simple cabling issue after you have replaced the NIC card several times, and maybe yelled at your ISP.

So first thing is to check to see if all the computers are having the same problem, or is it only one machine. If all machines on the network are having trouble you should begin looking at the network hardware (routers ISP cabling etc) Read the rest of this entry »

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Spending a night out under the stars is one of the highlights of life everyone should try out every once in a while. No phones, no PDAs, no Internet, no light pollution, and no air pollution. Just the stars spread out over the night sky like an ornate blanket. Waking up to the chirping of birds and crisp, undefiled air. Everyone should try it at least once in their lives.

But the privilege of the camping experience also carries some weight of responsibility. The fact that the earth is having so many problems on account of man’s activities should be clear enough to everyone by now. So on Earth Day, let me list down some tips to make your camping experience more eco friendly, while minimizing your environmental impact. Read the rest of this entry »

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What happens if you are a WordPress theme designer and happen to have a blog as well? Well for one thing, if it’s going good, you don’t HAVE to update your blog and it will be none the worse for it. At least that’s the lesson to learn from WPdesigner.com, the once popular and (still) going strong WordPress themes blog.

Well, apparently it got “updated” recently, after more than a year of “hibernation.” The last “valid” post was way back in March 2008. After that, the former owner Tung Do (Small Potato) sold his blog to a Czech guy who let the whole blog go to sleep. Since then, the blog was not updated (until now that is). Read the rest of this entry »

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If you have been using your computer a lot, you probably have a few programs that you use more often than the others. In my case, I use Microsoft Word, Notepad, and Photoshop a lot. To make your working time more productive you can use keyboard shortcuts, and minimize use of the mouse.

Mouse dependence is especially time consuming if you largely work with a laptop. Instead of doing this, you can create shortcut keys for all of your most used applications. Here’s how to create a keyboard shortcut for an application. Read the rest of this entry »

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