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Battle of Desktop Client Games

January 14th, 2010 · News

You want to play game, but you don’t want to go to gameshop store, well there are many online store for shopping game online and deliver to your computer as downloaded file. I am test from three Desktop Client Games, the first one is Steampowered.com, number two impulse from stardock, number three direct2drive.com.

What i want to compare is the price, the easy access to the game without set online or connected desktop client.

Steampowered.com is massive collection of the game, you need to go online first to play the game, while steam provide offline mode, but mostly you cannot run steam then what happen ? you cannot play the game, hell, why steam bind these all game that we have purchased into steam API, this will prevent the buyer to play the game when steam is not available anymore.

Impulse from stardock.com also have big catalog, while impulse also provide desktop client games to download their catalog and purchase it, impulse allow us to play the game after purchase and we don’t need to run impulse to play the game, these is great, why we should prevent to play the game, we already buy it.

Direct2Drive.com, provide also many games catalog, some country restricted to by the game, but mostly can, it depends on their distribution content agreement with the publisher.

The Winner is : Impulse from stardock.com, they deliver the game without irritating customer and gamer to run impulse only to play the game that they have already bought.

Recommendation: If you do not want any trouble in the future, buy the game from the store that not binding Desktop Client Games to the game that you bought. The Desktop Client Games API will always asking the Desktop Client Games to run. The question is are they provide 100% no error from online connection.

Here is the proof of my screen captured, when their services not satisfied your gaming experience.

Bad implementation of Steampowered.com

Bad implementation of Steampowered.com

Bad dekstop clients games steampowered.com

Bad dekstop clients games steampowered.com

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HTML Device: A way to control device through html

December 15th, 2009 · News

What ? HTML Device, this is new element of HTML that control the device, the device element represents a device selector , to allow the user to give the page access to a device, for example a video camera. Device element is part of HTML version 5, HTML Device will extend browser to access the device, the keyword of the device element including, media, fs, and rs232. Media itself including a webcam, while fs is for file system for accessing a usb-connected media player, and for rs232 is RS232 device for serial port.

Long Journey
While it is draft on HTML 5, the browser itself should update their capability to work with the device element, the potential side to access device through HTML is like a knife, it could be use as positif side and it could be use as negative impact. Before the element can work with the browser, there are long journey to implement and to accept this technology to all browser. True, adobe currently can control a webcam, but the adobe itself is the web application that still separated code from HTML. This could be the battle of HTML and Adobe, and vice versa, and when allowing HTML to access the device, browser should increase the security code to analyze the impact of black code to gain access through this device element.

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Adobe Fireworks: Smooth Canvas Resize

November 27th, 2009 · Adobe Fireworks

Well, we were found sometimes, our canvas is not enough to hold up our web graphic design, and we need to resize it. For sure, we even not thinking the default of canvas resize is center all, and this could be make our design mess up again with the guides line.

Use Anchor

See the anchor direction to resize canvas

See the anchor direction to resize canvas

Actually, if we look at the Canvas Resize property of Adobe Fireworks, there are new size field to set width and height of the canvas. By setting and new width or height, then pressing OK button, actually we just mess up our design with the guides line. Unless you need resize all around of your canvas, you don’t need to care about Anchor properties. Adobe Fireworks use Anchor to determine, which the direction the canvas to resize. By default, the center anchor is selected, indicating that changes to the size of the canvas are made on all sides. You need to do Click an Anchor button to specify which sides of the canvas Fireworks will add to or delete from, and click OK. There are 9 button of anchor direction, top-left with set direction to the right and to the bottom or set the x and y, left-bottom-right will resize only the bottom of the canvas and the graphic still intact at the top. There are an opposite of left-bottom-right, which is left-up-right will resize the top of the canvas. By using this method will ensure, you are not make your guides lines mess up and put you in the jeopardy by rearrange of the guide or moving all graphic to the right position again, it will save your time by taking care of anchor property. There are also the measure of width and height, by choosing between pixel, inches, and centimeters.

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Wordpress Content Management System ( CMS )

November 21st, 2009 · Free Software, News, Open Source, Software

Who said Wordpress cannot be set as CMS ( Content Management System ), some said wordpress designed not to fit as CMS, but rather for blogging purpose. Some report said, wordpress need more plugin to stand as CMS, well that’s true, how many award should proof the wordpress as CMS ? This is the proof award, from 2009 Open Source CMS Awards, WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award.

Many wordpress theme run as content management system, there are some feature also inside wordpress to do so, from insert more tag feature at the editor posts, and some other plug in to do so. There are some site describing how to do it and set wordpress as content management system, how to use wordpress as truly content mangement system ?

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Free Software To Burn CD And DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD

November 21st, 2009 · Download, Free Software, Open Source, Software, Windows

Free CD DVD ISO Burner

Free CD DVD ISO Burner

Nero all over package with new CD/DVD Writer, it seems we don’t need to download other third party software. But, how if your computer does not include  CD/DVD Burning software, before buying the expensive burning software tools, think that you can burn ISO, audio, data audio, dvd using free software. In the search of burning OpenSuse ISO, we found some interesting tools to burn ISO, CD/DVD, even Blu-Ray, HD-DVD as free.

CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components. Well, in the three choices of the software, i choose CDBurnerXP, this is the complete package software and rich feature to work with your CD/DVD Burning hardware.  Hardware manufacturer should be include this software with their writer hardware to add value and freedom to choose of free software.

Key Features

  • burn all kinds of discs
  • audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
  • burn and create ISO files
  • data verification after burning process
  • create bootable discs
  • multi-language interface
  • bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
  • Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008/Windows 7

This software doesn’t include source code to download, well if you only need the free software to burn CD DVD, get this software. To download CDBurnerXP go to this download page : http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

ISO Recorder
ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.

ISO Recorder has been conceived during Windows XP beta program, when Microsoft for the first time started distributing new OS builds as ISO images. Even though the new OS had CD-burning support (by Roxio), it did not have an ability to record an image. ISO Recorder has filled this need and has been one of the popular Windows downloads ever since.

With an advent of Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 the version 2 of ISO Recorder has been released, which introduced some new features including ISO image creation and support for non-admin user.

Finally, in Windows Vista it became possible to address another long-standing request and provide DVD burning capability.

Since the very beginning ISO Recorder has been a free tool (for personal use). It is recommended by MSDN download site along with Easy CD and Nero and is used by a number of companies around the world. To download this ISO Recorder go to this download page : http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 3.
Features

  • Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
  • Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
  • Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
  • Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
  • Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
  • Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
  • Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
  • Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
  • Display disc information.
  • Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

This software open source, so you can download also the source code for burning CD DVD, to download this software go to download page: http://infrarecorder.org/.

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