Scientists have created a ‘terminator trout’
Mar/100
Scientists have succeeded in creating a genetically modified trout with massive rippling body-builder muscles. The terminator-esque trout was created …
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Play Your Favorite DOS Games in XP, Vista, and Windows 7
Mar/100
Want to take a trip down memory lane with old school DOS games?? D-Fend Reloaded makes it easy for you to play your favorite DOS games directly on XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
D-Fend Reloaded is a great frontend for DOSBox, the popular DOS emulator.? It lets you install and run many DOS games and applications directly from its interface without ever touching a DOS prompt.? It works great on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 32 & 64-bit versions.??
Getting Started
Download D-Fend Reloaded (link below), and install with the default settings.? You don’t need to install DOSBox, as D-Fend Reloaded will automatically install all the components you need to run DOS games on Windows.
D-Fend Reloaded can also be installed as a portable application, so you can run it from a flash drive on any Windows computer by selecting User defined installation.
Then select Portable mode installation.
Once D-Fend Reloaded is installed, you can go ahead and open the program. Then simply click “Accept all settings” to apply the default settings.
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D-Fend is now ready to run all of your favorite DOS games.
Installing DOS Games and Applications:
To install a DOS game or application, simply drag-and-drop a zip file of the app into D-Fend Reloaded’s window.? D-Fend Reloaded will automatically extract the program…
Then will ask you to name the application and choose where to store it — by default it uses the name of the DOS app.
Now you’ll see a new entry for the app you just installed.? Simply double-click to run it.
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D-Fend will remind you that you can switch out of fullscreen mode by pressing Alt+Enter, and can also close the DOS application by pressing Ctrl+F9.? Press Ok to run the program.
Here we’re running Ms. PacPC, a remake of the classic game Ms. Pac-Man, in full-screen mode.? All features work automatically, including sound, and you never have to setup anything from DOS command line — it just works.
Here it’s in windowed mode running on Windows 7.
Please note that your color scheme may change to Windows Basic while running DOS applications.
You can run DOS application just as easily.? Here’s Word 5.5 running in in DOSBox through D-Fend Reloaded…
Game Packs:
Want to quickly install many old DOS freeware and trial games?? D-Fend Reloaded offers several game packs that let you install dozens of DOS games with only four clicks…just download and run the game pack installer of your choice (link below).
Now you’ve got a selection of DOS games to choose from.
Here’s a group of poor lemmings walking around … in Windows 7.
Conclusion
D-Fend Reloaded gives you a great way to run your favorite DOS games and applications directly from XP, Vista, and Windows 7.? Give it a try, and relive your DOS days from the comfort of your Windows desktop.
What were some of your favorite DOS games and applications? Leave a comment and let us know.
Links
Download DOS game packs for D-Fend Reloaded
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Set Custom Reload Times for Individual Webpages in Chrome
Mar/100
Do you have a webpage that needs to be reloaded every so often or perhaps you have multiple webpages that each need their own individual reload time? Now you can have the best of both with the AutoReloader extension for Google Chrome.
Using AutoReloader
When you first look at the drop-down window everything will be in a neutral “waiting” state. You can start using the extension immediately by simply entering the desired “time frame” for reloading a webpage. Notice for the “Repeat Option” that “0 = Continuous”…
You may want to have a quick look through the “Options” to see if there are any “operational changes” that you would like to make.
Once you enter a time click on the “Set Link” to start the timer.
Notice that you can view the time remaining on the “Toolbar Button” unless you disabled the feature in the “Options”.
Clicking on the “Toolbar Button” will show a larger version of the timer in the drop-down window along with a “Cancel Current Timer Link”.
Here is the best part of all with AutoReloader…you can set up your own customized list of “Reload Times” and then access them through the drop-down window. Using the two times shown here we were able to set the “Productive Geek Webpage” up for 30 second reloads and the “TinyHacker Webpage” up for 1 minute reloads at the same time. There was no conflict whatsoever in running both “reload times” simultaneously. This is a really terrific feature!
Conclusion
Whether you have only one webpage or multiple pages that need periodic reloading (such as tracking a Woot-Off or an Ebay auction) the AutoReloader extension is the perfect tool for the job. Running custom reload times simultaneously have never been easier.
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Download the AutoReloader extension (Google Chrome Extensions)
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These Ads For MSN and MTV Should Be Expanded Into Full-Blown Movies [Commercials]
Mar/100
This Australian production/advertising agency, Umeric, has created two of the best commercials I've seen. The first, for MTVNHD (MTV Nickelodeon High Definition) is my favorite—anyone else reminded of War of the Worlds when watching it? More »
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China plans space station, moon orbiter
Mar/100
The Chinese space agency are planning several new endeavours in the near future including their own space station. The first module of their Tiangong …
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‘130-year-old’ woman in world record bid
Mar/100
A woman who lives in a remote Georgian village is claiming to be the world’s oldest person at 130 years old. Antisa Khvichava claims she was born in …
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Combine the Address & Search Bars in Firefox
Mar/100
The Search Bar in Firefox is very useful for finding additional information or images while browsing but the UI space it takes up can be frustrating at times. Now you can reclaim that UI space and still have access to all that searching goodness with the Foobar extension.
Note: This is about the Foobar Firefox extension and not to be confused with Foobar2000 the open source music player.
Before
If you have the “Search Bar” displayed there is no doubt that it is taking up valuable space in your browser’s UI. What you need is the ability to reclaim that UI space and still have the same access to your search capability as before…no more sacrificing one for a gain with the other.
After
As soon as you have installed the extension you can see that the top part of your browser will look much sleeker without the “Search Bar” to clutter it up. The “Search Engine Icon” will now be visible inside of your “Address Bar” as seen here.
You will be able to access the same “Search Engine Menu” as before by clicking on the “Search Engine Icon”.
There are two display modes for search results (setting available in the “Options”). The first one shown here is “Simple Mode” where all results are in a condensed format. Notice that not only are there search suggestions but also “Bookmarks & History” listings as well. You can literally get the best of both when conducting a search.
Note: The number of entries for search suggestions and bookmark/history listings can be adjusted higher or lower in the “Options”.
The second one is “Rich Mode” where the results are shown with more details. Choose the “mode” that best suits your personal style.
For our first example you can see the results when we conducted a quick search on “Windows 7” (using the first of the three offerings shown from Bing).
Our second example was a search for “Flowers” using our Photobucket search engine. Once again nice results opened in a new tab for us.
Options
The options are easy to go through. It is really nice to be able to choose the number of results that you want displayed and the format that you want them shown in.
Note: Changing the “Suggestion popup style” will require a browser restart to take effect.
Conclusion
If you love using the “Search Bar” in Firefox but want to reclaim the UI space then you will definitely want to add this extension to your browser. The ability to customize the number of results and choose the formatting make this extension even better.
Links
Download the Foobar extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
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Geek Fun: Virtualized Old School Windows – Windows 95
Mar/100
Last week we enjoyed looking at Windows 3.1 running in VMware Player on Windows 7.? Today, let’s upgrade our 3.1 to 95, and get a look at how most of us remember Windows from the 90’s.
In this demo, we’re running the first release of Windows 95 (version 4.00.950) in VMware Player 3.0 running on Windows 7 x64.? For fun, we ran the 95 upgrade on the 3.1 virtual machine we built last week.
Windows 95
So let’s get started.? Here’s the first setup screen.? For the record, Windows 95 installed in about 15 minutes or less in VMware in our test.
Strangely, Windows 95 offered several installation choices.? They actually let you choose what extra parts of Windows to install if you wished.? Oh, and who wants to run Windows 95 on your “Portable Computer”?? Most smartphones today are more powerful than the “portable computers” of 95.
Your productivity may vastly increase if you run Windows 95.? Anyone want to switch?
No, I don’t want to restart … I want to use my computer!
Welcome to Windows 95!? Hey, did you know you can launch programs from the Start button?
Our quick spin around Windows 95 reminded us why Windows got such a bad reputation in the ‘90’s for being unstable.? We didn’t even get our test copy fully booted after installation before we saw our first error screen.?
Windows in space … was that the most popular screensaver in Windows 95, or was it just me?
Hello Windows 3.1!? The UI was still outdated in some spots.
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Ah, yes, Media Player before it got 101 features to compete with iTunes.
But, you couldn’t even play CDs in Media Player.? Actually, CD player was one program I used almost daily in Windows 95 back in the day.
Want some new programs?? This help file about new programs designed for Windows 95 lists a lot of outdated names in tech.?
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And, you really may want some programs.? The first edition of Windows 95 didn’t even ship with Internet Explorer.?? We’ve still got Minesweeper, though!
My Computer had really limited functionality, and by default opened everything in a new window.? Double click on C:, and it opens in a new window.? Ugh.
But Explorer is a bit more like more modern versions.
Hey, look, Start menu search!? If only it found the files you were looking for…
Now I’m feeling old … this shutdown screen brought back so many memories … of shutdowns that wouldn’t shut down!
But, you still have to turn off your computer.? I wonder how many old monitors had these words burned into them?
So there’s yet another trip down Windows memory lane.? Most of us can remember using Windows 95, so let us know your favorite (or worst) memory of it!? At least we can all be thankful for our modern computers and operating systems today, right??
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Zeno Clash trailer brings the co-op pain
Mar/100
So, if ganging up on helpless bad guys and pummeling them to death sounds like fun, you should probably keep an eye on Zeno Clash.
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Fable 2 episodic experiment deemed ‘massively successful’ by Molyneux
Mar/100
At the tail end of our GDC interview with Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux, we remembered one more question we simply had to know: How well did Fable 2’s episodic experiment go? We’ll refresh your memory: Last August, Molyneux announced plans to release Fable 2 as a series of five downloadable “episodes,” with the first one given away and the subsequent four priced at $10 each.
Molyneux’s response: “That was hugely successful. There were something like over half a million. I think it was 600,000 downloads of the first episode, which was very, very cool.” Of course, the first episode was free so how was the conversion rate? “It was a much higher than a normal conversion rate,” Molyneux smiled. “Massively, massively successful, and I really love this relationship, which is much more sliced into episodes with consumers.”
Of course, knowing where we were going with this particular line of questioning, Molyneux preemptively offered an answer.”But we’re not announcing whether that’s coming out in this release,” he said, tossing a smile towards the attentive PR people behind me.
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