According to FOX 61 in Tennessee, councilman Dimitar Kerin was voted out of his position for playing Farmville during meetings. He argued other members on the council played Farmville as well, so much so he had to play during meetings to match them. In the UK, a 12 year-old boy racked up £905 in FarmVille debt. During the period between Jun 19th and July 9th, an average of 63.3 million users played Farmville, making Farmville the most played online game in the world. What makes Farmville so addictive? How can a simple flash based game cause someone to loose their jobs, or spend hundreds of dollars?
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
The Gimp: Adding Python Support in Windows
Posted: July 9, 2010 at 2:40 am by Nathan Driskell
Photoshop is one of the best tools around for creating high quality images. However, most cannot afford $700.00 to purchase Photoshop. With Ubuntu Linux becoming more popular, alternatives for Photoshop are becoming important. Enter The Gimp, one of the best Alternatives for Photoshop. Not only is The Gimp free, but you can install it in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. While The Gimp is powerful, it does not contain all the tools Photoshop users are familiar with, especially Layer Effects. To gain many of the features of Photoshop, you need to install plug-ins. Many plug-ins require Python, a programming language, to be installed as well. While this is not an easy task, this guide will instruct you on how you can add Python Support into Gimp.
Install Windows from a USB Drive
Posted: July 8, 2010 at 6:33 pm by Nathan Driskell
While dealing with computers, there will be time when a DVD drive will burn out. This is especially bad if it’s on a laptop. Many netbooks these days do not even carry DVD drives. So, how are you to install an Operating System? The solution is to install your OS from a USB Drive. As USB drives are reaching 16 – 23 gigs of storage space, they make perfect tools to install your OS.
Flawed Study Suggests Reading on Paper is Faster than iPad
Posted: July 6, 2010 at 3:55 am by Nathan Driskell
I love these so called ‘studies’ experts use to try to confuse and mislead users. Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group (not affiliated with Nielsen, the metrics company), conducted a ‘study’ claiming reading a book is faster than reading the same material from an iPad. The study compared reading times between the iPad and a paper back book.
Libox Reviewed: A Beginning to Sharing Your Media
Posted: July 1, 2010 at 12:31 am by Nathan Driskell
When one has a large media collection, it is important to be able to access it from other devices. With smartphones able to view video, it is becoming more important to be able to access your media. The problem with storing it on your computer is the difficulty networking it to all your devices. Enter Libox, a P2P streaming service allowing you to have remote access to your media collection. Just install the desktop application and you can view your collection from a web browser. Provided you have a worthy smartphone.
Syfy.com Hosts Malware
Posted: May 3, 2010 at 7:10 pm by Nathan Driskell
Today while I was surfing the Internet I went to one of the sites I usually go to find out information about Science Fiction, Syfy.com. My browser, Google Chrome, gave me a warning about the site hosting malware. This has never occurred before, thus I doubted the message. I ignored the warning, and sure enough, my virus scanner popped up identifying viruses. I was quite shocked, as this site is for a cable television station.
Using scanpst.exe in Windows 7 64bit
Posted: April 19, 2010 at 2:27 pm by Nathan Driskell
When running Microsoft Outlook, at times your data folder where all your outlook data is kept can develop errors. These errors can result in the inability to send or receive mail. To compound the problem, you may not be able to delete mail. Below is the error message you will likely receive if you are experiencing this problem.
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