January 18, 2013

Playing Grim Fandango #2

If you never played this game... DO IT.

This is my party dress...


January 17, 2013

KSP: make your space program


With Kerbal Space Program you can conquer the space or die trying.
It's an indie game and you can download here: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/

My fails:





Yeah, I didn't know well how things work, but finally:


KOLEA STLONG!! But the "Mun" is a distant goal...

By the way, some monsters:



What has science done!

January 16, 2013

Capturing screenshots was a problem...


I experienced some problem with Fraps in games like Grim Fandango: it's impossible to capture a screenshot.

So I downloaded this software, ShareX, the successor of Zscreen and put CTRL+PrintScreen to take screenshots.
With the only PrintScreen or Fn(eg: F11) nothing happened playing Grim Fandango, I suppose some "hotkey" problem, but now works like a charm.

ShareX saves and uploads images by default, so set your config.

http://code.google.com/p/sharex/


January 15, 2013

[Nostalgia] Grim Fandango, playing on Windows 7


How can I play this awesome game on the new versions of Windows?

The fast and clean way is a new installer and launcher (the links are in the bottom).
The steps are:
- install the game with this installer using your CDs
- the update patch will be automatically downloaded and installed
- use the launcher to launch the game (there is a shortcut on the desktop) and you can play it in "windowed mode" too...

Installer & launcher:
http://quickandeasysoftware.net/quick-and-easy-week-day-1-grim-fandango-launcher-grim-fandango-setup

If it doesn't work (you click start but the game doesn't start...) use this patch:

GrimPatchXPv2.exe  (google it)

I'm on Windows Seven 32, but without this patch the game doesn't work, so if you have this problem you can solve it very easily!

January 13, 2013

Android App - System Tuner

system tuner android vertical

A very useful utility for Android is System Tuner.
For what? The use for this application is for rooted phones (some functions) and for expert users!

You can use System Tuner as (from Google PlayStore description):

Task Manager:
- Filter user/system/kernel processes and exclusion list
- Shows cpu load/frequency, memory/internal/sd usage
- Sort processes by cpu times, start time, memory or by name
- Kill non manually excluded apps automatically
- Shows detailed information about running apps and processes
- Manually kill running apps


CPU Manager (rooted phones):
- Tweak CPU governor + frequencies during screen-off, on-call
- Tweak CPU voltage (when available on custom Kernel)
- Set CPU settings on boot
- Uses OC/deamon when available and can disable it


Extended Task Killer
- Kill non-excluded apps automatically or manually
- Kill apps during screen-on, screen-off or when widget refreshes
- Manually exclude or include apps
- All system apps are excluded by default
- Manually kill kernel processes (root)
- Display memory and SD details (RAM & internal)


Application Manager without root:
- Backup/restore/uninstall user apps, only APKs are backed-up
Application Manager with root:
- Freeze/unfreeze apps
- Remove app from boot
- Backup/restore/uninstall any apps and settings, including system apps
- Launch and read app logcat
- Display application data and cache usage
- Sort application by name, data usage or cache usage
- Move any apps to/from system/user/SD space
- Clear caches or dalvik cache (must reboot after)


Activity Recorder, Logcat Reader, Terminal Emulator,

System Tweaker (root):
- Tweak SD cache size to boost performance
- Tweak IO scheduler to boost performance
- App booster on boot (APK alignement + DB cleanup)
- Tweak Android auto-kill memory settings
- Uses Linux init.d script when available


Notifications (show several informations like cpu, memory, cpu governor, sd etc...):


I use it to remove some useless "apps" from startup.

Some screen:
system tuner android

Donwload: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.pmw

January 12, 2013

Windows 8 updates notifier

If  you have Windows 8 you know that the pop-up notification about Updates are disabled by design in the desktop... so you can add this feature with this tool:

http://wun.codeplex.com/

windows update notification on windows 8

January 1, 2013

I saw Prometheus.

No comment. I'm very disappointed.

The plot in one gif:



If you saw it and if you want more info, my suggestions are:

Deleted scenes:
http://www.novamov.com/video/r6p9rl56le7n0

What's wrong:
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/06/11/whats-wrong-with-prometheus-a-partial-list/

The "honest trailer":


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