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 dekstop clients games steampowered.com

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.

Use Anchor

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.

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 ?

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

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/.

Free Download Manager

Free Download Manager in Action

There is a free download manager to answer your download task, sometimes we found another download manager also is free, but they will put an add or inject ad aware into our computer, without notice, or it is noticed but you are not aware. With Free Download Manager, you get the complete package to download, there are tab window to download flash, to download torrent, to upload file, scheduler, site explorer, site manager, html spider. Many of you might knew there is also flashget, but this Free Download Manager will make you satisfied with no ad and more fast to download.

The interface also user friendly, with nice icon on the toolbar, and the download indicator can see as graphic progress, also there is log of download file, and the media preview or convert, we can also put our comment and share the file we download to other community, giving and share your information to the world, what was you might knew with your knowledge to solve other person problem with software you just get. Free Download Manager support many windows version including from Microsoft Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, but the current version only support for 32 bit version.

Well the best point is, this is open source software, means you can see the source code if you are programmer, you might curious to see inside the code and trying to add something of this free download manager. As programmer, sometimes you not satisfied with the current version and you have more idea to add as features, go on and do it, download the source code and make it changes to the new one then share to everyone.

3D Stunning, Dawn of War 2: The Last Standing free Downloadable Content

I never imagine 10 years ago while there are many 2D arcade game using lowest graphic pixel. From famous super mario bros to space shoot game. Now, visual graphic technology has changing so much following and demanding the highest realistic 3D graphic to support for many games and visual design, do not forget the visual video card business also demanding to provide the best, fast processing, and increase discreet visual graphic memory. If you want fast processing of visual graphic do not use shared memory, use discreet memory graphic card. There are GPU ( Graphic Unit Processing ), while ten years ago we always talk about CPU ( Central Processing Unit ) which is dominated by Intel, now the world of graphic need more fastest GPU, which is currently dominating by NVidia and ATI. Intel still struggling into battle area of Graphic Processing. The industry standard of Visual Graphic Card still dominated by NVidia and then ATI.

The more transistor inside of GPU the more fastest processing visual graphic, sure, the price also will make it higher, than standard  GPU. People might be still confuse which better graphic processor to run the best software gaming and run the best processing heavy graphic. The lower graphic card class such as ATI RadeonHD3450 can still run the great game like Dawn of War 2: The Last Stand, this game supported by NVidia Graphic Card, but do not try to use Intel Graphic Card these would more annoying while running the game, and may be running in slowing process. You can tell me if you can running Dawn of War 2 in Intel Graphic.

3D Stunning

Dawn of War 2 which is The Last Stand has been play and reported at Gaming Huge, using 3D realistic graphic, from the detail of each character to the environment, i like these game a lot. The visual graphic very sophisticated, relic entertainment very concern about the detail, the sound of each character, the sound of the environment, you never found in another game before. The battle field of The Last Stand using destructable environment, thousand of  creatures. You can rotate the view camera using ALT+Mouse scroll and mouse movement, and swithching back to normal view using Backspace button. See what you get when you playing this game and rotate the camera, you got 3D stunning movie like John Woo or the Matric, excellent and great job Relic.

Speak Visual

NVidia make campaign about their Graphic Card using two word “Speak Visual”, while Dawn of War 2 supported by NVidia yes these game Speak Visual, you feel what just you see and play the visual rotation of camera, zoom in of each character, really Speak Visual. By speak visuall you don’t need to write a thousand word to describe it, you just write these description on your mind. Have you imagine what will happen for the next 10 years of visual graphic revolution and improvement ? You will never knew, but many researcher, gamer, and hardware manufacture doing the great improvement. If you not involve in these visual graphic development, you just wait and see, but if you involve, you can set the highest bar of the next 10 years visual graphic art. Be there, and make it your own.

Many forum software spread all over the internet, free to download, free to use, but which one is the right for you to do the right thing for providing forums for your internet user and for your community. I compare three forums software, which i knew these three forums software is more popular and many website using it. The first software is phpBB, phpBB is the fantastico deluxe choose to install when you have webhosting that provide and using CPanel. SMF or simplemachine forum is the list number two at fantastico deluxe, the third forums software is the commercial one which many website using it, the commercial forums software is vBulletin. If you already using CPanel at your webhosting, you don’t need to worry about downloading phpBB or SMF, to compare three software forums, i use ForumMatrix.org, let’s not talk to much and let see the result:

Forum Matrix, compare phpBB vs SMF vs vBulletin

From this comparison, you can make assessment which the right forum software for you, if you want free you can go between using phpBB or SMF, if you want get the commercial license you can go with vBulletin.
The decision back on your budget and your goal when building the forums. If you expert enough to do php or write programming code in php you can go with open source and free, if you want support you can go with vBulletin, there many company offering support also for open source.

Domain is the name for your website, without domain name, your website cannot be recognize by the world wide visitor. Domain can be the name of brand, and today there million domain has been registered. Domain can be forwarding to another website or domain name, here is the great article regarding forwarding domain name read here, domain can be masking, domain can be protected and domain can be trusted when securing with SSL ( Sockec Secure Layer ).

It is important for today currently growing internet business using domain name as another brand value. Microsoft suing Lindows.com because the phrase of Lindows similar with windows, it changed perception of people that Lindows might be similar with windows, instead Lindows running linux. But the agreement for both party has been reached. In this case domain name is very important for business on the internet and for influence people through the online business. Domain Name can be registered at registrar, domain name can be transfered and can be manage.

The unique domain name can be easy to remember by people, avoid registering more than two word for domain name, at least you want register those domain only for fun or you have strong budget to introduce those domain to the public using any marketing campaign. Choose the domain name that you happy with it.

Before registering your domain name, just search your domain name at keviomedia.com

Apple iPod Suffle, Buy Now

iPod shuffle in polished stainless steel.

The special edition iPod shuffle, available exclusively from the Apple Store. It’s as brilliant as your taste in music.

Say anything with free engraving.

Make it a gift they’ll never forget by adding a personal laser-engraved message to any iPod. It’s easy and it’s free. Just add your personal message after selecting your iPod.

The world’s smallest music player.

To create the world’s smallest music player, we moved the controls from iPod shuffle to the earphone cord. This makes iPod shuffle smaller than ever, and the controls are right where you can reach them. So when you want to play, pause, or skip to the next tune, you don’t have to fumble for your iPod shuffle — just follow the cord and press a button.

The first music player that talks to you.

VoiceOver will surely be the next big hit on your iPod shuffle.1 Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. Just press a button, and VoiceOver tells you. You can even hear the names of your playlists. And when your battery needs charging, VoiceOver tells you that, too.

Easy-access controls.

The controls are located on the right earphone cord. With command central strategically placed in this more convenient location, you can navigate your music — and activate the VoiceOver feature — without taking your eyes off your run, your ride, or whatever you’re doing. iPod shuffle includes these easy-access controls, but you can also use headphones with similar controls from manufacturers like Scosche, Klipsch, V-MODA, and Belkin.

Your music library. To go.

iPod shuffle is now available in both 2GB and 4GB capacities. So you have plenty of room to store hours and hours of music — up to 1,000 songs with the 4GB model.2 That’s a load of essentials for your workout or commute. And there’s room for multiple playlists and audiobooks, too.

Let’s talk color.

The anodized aluminum enclosure makes iPod shuffle sleek and durable. It’s even more colorful in gleaming pink, blue, green, black, or silver. And making its debut: the special edition iPod shuffle in polished stainless steel (Talk about rock star treatment). Even the iPod shuffle clip rocks. It attaches securely to your shirt, jacket, workout gear, and backpack, making iPod shuffle the perfect fashion tech-cessory. And yes, there’s still room for personalized.

Multiple playlists.

You’ve probably made multiple playlists in iTunes. One for your commute. One for the gym. One for just chilling out. Now you can sync playlists on your computer with iPod shuffle, and play the perfect mix for your activity or mood. VoiceOver tells you the name of each playlist, so it’s easy to switch between them and find the one you want without looking.

Multiple languages.

A French love song. A Spanish bolero. An Italian cantata. Your music library has songs from all over the world. That’s why VoiceOver speaks 20 different languages. So it can tell you song titles and artists in the correct languages.

To shuffle or not to shuffle.

The shuffle switch has three positions. Flip it to the left, and you’ll hear your music in a refreshingly random way. Flip it to the middle, and your songs play in order. Or flip to the right to turn iPod shuffle off.