tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11091119140691686472024-02-20T18:51:25.969+02:00Digital BrainChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581447034570998865noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109111914069168647.post-8981889856352454292020-10-15T05:44:00.000+03:002013-05-20T17:51:42.588+03:00Welcome<div style="text-align: center;">
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Here you'll find various solutions for your digital needs.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Microsoft Flight" is a flight simulator game and the successor of Flight Simulator X from Microsoft. The game is not much of a simulator and it's more like an arcade game where you have to find hidden items on the map and perform different maneuver tasks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are four types of tasks that you can do in the game:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Missions</b> - the first few missions are tutorial like tasks where you are given tips on how to take off, land and perform different maneuvers; then as you advance it gets more difficult</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Challenges</b> - you are asked to achieve specific goals and depending on how well you do it, you earn experience and trophies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aerocaches</b> - are hidden items that you have to find on the map and you get rewarded for doing it</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jobs</b> - every airport has a list of jobs that are available only during specific time intervals of the day; it usually consist of transporting a passenger or some goods from one place to another</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The plane is best controlled with a joystick, but it can be controlled quite comfortable with the mouse too, making the game very accessible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The game is free to play with no restriction, but the free content ends pretty fast and except repeating the missions and do some chaotic multiplayer free flight, there is nothing else you can do. To get more content you'll have to buy some DLC packs or buy new planes to get access to new jobs at the airports.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If you're not up to spend money in this game, you can earn Microsoft Points through <a href="http://digital--brain.blogspot.com/2012/05/bing-rewards.html" target="_blank">Bing Rewards</a> program to pay for the new content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">World of Tanks is a team-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) action game dedicated to armored warfare. The game mainly consists of tank battles between two teams on various high feature maps. In order for one team to win the battle, they must destroy all the opponent's tanks or capture the enemy flag by sitting next to it. The battle can also end up in a draw, if battle's time expires or both team captures enemy's flag almost simultaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before you start a battle you have to choose a tank with which you will fight. There are a large variety of tanks and upgrades you can choose from, organized in 4 tech trees corresponding to each nation:Soviet, USA, German and French. Each tech tree has multiple branches corresponding to different tank types:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Light Tanks</b> - are fast, light armored and mobile used to scout and destroy artillery opponents</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Medium Tanks</b> - are moderate armored tanks, with moderate speed and moderate damage power; they serve many tasks on the field such as support heavier tanks, front-line tanks and scouts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Heavy Tanks</b> - are large tanks with slow speed, heavy armor and high damage power;they are vulnerable to fast medium tanks and artillery, if they are not supported by other tanks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tank Destroyers</b> - generally don't have a turret and must rotate the whole tank to aim at a target, but have a much more powerful cannon than other tanks of the same tier and a thick front armor; though their side and back armor are much thinner</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Self-Propelled Guns</b> - also known as artillery, are ranged armor tanks that can fire almost anywhere on the map; the down side is that they have very light armor and long reloading time</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When you first create an account you'll have at your disposal 1 tank of tier 1 from each nation. As you participate in more battles and earn more experience and credits, you can advance on the next tank tier by researching and purchasing it with your earned credits. Here is an example of a tech tree:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The game can be played entirely free all the way to tier 10 tanks. There are certain limitation to free accounts, for example you can't form a platoon with more than 2 players and you can't create tank companies. But the most let down is the slow progress due to small amount of experience and credits received in battles. To bypass this limitations you can buy gold and activate premium account for a specific period ranging from 1 day to 1 year. Also you can progress even faster, by buying one of the premium tanks, granting you direct access to tanks of higher tier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This game is one of my favorites because of it's originality and freedom of play style, and on top of that it's free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jEP-f3kbuUk/T59NA0YWe3I/AAAAAAAAALI/AFxhBBdEgcI/s1600/bingrewards.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jEP-f3kbuUk/T59NA0YWe3I/AAAAAAAAALI/AFxhBBdEgcI/s200/bingrewards.png" width="200" /></a>Bing.com – one of the largest search engines, which is owned by
Microsoft, has a new service for us. It is called Bing Rewards and
here we can earn special points for using Bing.com and other Microsoft
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sign up on Bing Rewards program with your free Windows Live ID and earn credits by conducting internet searches and testing new features. When you have enough credit points you can choose your reward from a list that includes items such as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In just a couple of days I managed to collect 15% credits of my goal by taking advantage of the Bing offers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581447034570998865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109111914069168647.post-35523640047679492612012-04-30T13:45:00.000+03:002012-05-05T10:33:47.057+03:00SRTweak<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0f243e;"> <span style="color: black;">SRTweak is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_editor" rel="wikipedia" title="Subtitle editor">subtitle editor</a> that performs different operations on *<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip" rel="wikipedia" title="SubRip">.srt</a>
file type. To use it, download the
latest version available from download section below, install it by
double-clicking SRTweak.bat and follow the menu. After installation is
over, just right-click on your *.srt file and click “SRTweak it!”, like
in the picture below. When you do that, a new window will open with a
list of options you can choose from.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Overview:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit/64-bit)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">removes romanian diacritics from subtitles (you can submit other languages in a comment)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">shift subtitles with a number of seconds/miliseconds specified by user</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://cid-2cf05a900f9844d3.office.live.com/self.aspx/Shared/Automation/Automated%20Text%20Editors/SRTweak/SRTweak%5E_1.3.bat" target="_blank">SRTweak 1.3</a> (last change </span><span style="font-size: small;">11/22/2011</span><span style="font-size: small;">)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><b>Note:</b></span> The new version (1.3) has several bugs fixed and is highly recommended. When you download the file don’t click “<b>Open</b>“, click “<b>Save</b>”
and run from the local disk, as the internet browser (i.e. IE9) might
restrict access to registry and cause improper installation. I’ll fix
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<span style="font-size: small;">The progam is mostly created in batch script language, but also uses some third-parties software:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">graphics.exe and reply.exe are used to generate the colored text in the CMD wondow and respectively to capture pressed buttons, and are taken from <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21forum/alt.msdos.batch.nt" target="_blank">alt.msdos.batch.nt</a> google group; actually this is where I learned most of the batch scripting</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ntwind.com/software/hstart.html" target="_blank">hstart.exe</a> is used to run the script elevated to comply with Windows UAC</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">SRTweak.bat is the main program </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> All installation files are stored in C:/Program Files/SRTweak/ and to uninstall, you can use Add/Remove Programs from Control Panel or run </span><span style="font-size: small;">C:/Program Files/SRTweak/SRTweak.bat and choose uninstall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The program is fairly complex for batch scripting and it would have been a lot faster in another platform. It all started as a small 20 lines script used to remove diacritics from *.srt files, because it wouldn't show properly in the video player. Then I started to add new features and compatibility workarounds, and it grew significantly. The most resource waster is by far the colored interactive menu; you see, batch scripting was not intended for this. Maybe in future I'll transfer it on a better platform.</span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581447034570998865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109111914069168647.post-6992683719855136952012-04-30T08:30:00.000+03:002013-05-17T10:52:28.313+03:00Enable VMware MAC Bridging<span style="font-size: large;">Page moved to <a href="http://www.sortbyte.com/software-programs/networking/enable-vmware-mac-bridging">this</a> link.</span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581447034570998865noreply@blogger.com