Various fun stuff in general
Why not brighten your day by being mentioned on the CNN front page or what not, here is how to show all your friends, your wife, your kids or anyone for that matter how to become an instant media attraction.
All you need is an InternetExplorer 8 webbrowser and the development tools (installed by default as far as I know), then you are set to go.ย This prank will allow you to “simulate” changes to the text and graphics on ANY web-site, good enough to fool most ๐
See how here;
Have you ever played the various flight simulators out there, there is a good chance you have..ย Now many of these are excellent, and have you ever wanted to try one of the real flight simulators with hydraulics and what not?ย Sure who haven’t..
Well take a look at this, it is an attempt to make a FPS (First Person Shooter) simulator.ย Awesome – the perfect winter project, although you will need some space and likely also to empty your savings account ๐
Cool none the less..
Long version;
Teaser;
Have an iPad or other tablet? Well good for you if you do, just don’t drop it as demonstrated in this YouTube video ๐
So you miss your old 80’s retro gaming device like “Donkey Kong” or what not?ย Well some crazy people have actually turned these into flash games, so now you can enjoy many of these old dreadful games on your pc ๐ย Nostalgic for sure but damn if I get how we could actually spend hours on these games during the 80’s.
Play here; http://www.pica-pic.com
So if you are looking into what to do during your vacation then here is a tip for you, you should buy and read;ย Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
Yes you may recognize the name from Sysinternals ๐ย he’s one of those clever guys from the good old sysinternals days.ย I have not read it yet, but as it come with high praises I have ordered my copy – it should be a VERY chilling factual Techno Thriller very well suited for people that like the details to be accurate.
Can be bought via Amazon.
Yes you read right, a radio powered by water, impossible you say – not at all..
http://techotrack.com/archives/5103
Quite fun ๐
Have you some old MS-Dos program lying around that you for some reason wish you could run, but as you installed Windows 7 64bit this is not possible!?
Well then this is for you, DOSbox is a free dos emulator that does a REALLY good job of executing these old apps.ย It will even emulate a SoundBlaster Pro soundcard so you will be able to get sound and all.ย So if you have Monkey Island I lying around somewhere now is your chance to get all nostalgic ๐ย Oh yeah, it is as with so many other cool things FREE ๐
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
Watch how it can even run old DOS demos;
Be the first among your friends to reach Mars, well sort of ย ๐
NASA is offering to include your name on a Microchip that will be embedded onto the next rover they send to Mars, thus you will have your name transported onto Mars for eternity and FREE of charge.
Enlist here (free);
http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/
You will even get a cool certificate ๐ se mine here;
http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/?action=getcert&hashid=55194C3285DD54C9F5DDD2C3F1DF65C8