Foldit is a really awesome puzzle game.
What is the purpose of Foldit? Basically, it allows the task of protein folding to be distributed to human intelligences. Click here for more information.
Foldit is a really awesome game (at least for people obsessed with biology). I recommend you to check it out.
Pingus is a Lemmings clone. ‘Nuff said.
Pingus is basically Lemmings, but is free, uses penguins instead of Lemmings, and has fewer playable levels.
It’s really fun.
Yes, I don’t really have anything to post about.
Flock is Firefox on Social Networking Steroids.
Flock has integration with Ma.gnolia (what is that?), del.icio.us (I’m working on getting my bookmarks up there), flickr (I have an account at lietk12, but I haven’t found time to upload any pictures yet. Actually, I’m too lazy to do it. I was going to do I strikeout, but I don’t remember the tag and there is no button for it in the Flock blog editor), YouTube (I’m on there, but I am not significant), twitter, Piczo (supposedly a flickr-type service), Photobucket, Facebook, and a bunch of blog services (including “self-hosted blog”).
In fact, I’m writing this post from inside Flock. Like WordPress, it has a basic editor. Conspicuously, there is a lack of a “more…” button (not that I use it) and a lack of the strikeout button. If you do need it, there are also “Source” and “Preview” tabs. “Source” is like WordPress’s source editor. Preview renders the page as HTML. I have no idea why this is more than marginally useful compared to the WYSIAYG editor (Google WYSIAYG if you’re not familiar with Lyx. Google Lyx if you’re not familiar with Lyx.). Here’s a screenshot of Flock’s blog editor editing this post, but without the screenshots. Yay recursiveness!
And this is the left tabbing of the numbered list–it breaks out into the root indentation. The RSS icon that I pulled from Make magazine’s website you see to the right is an example of image position and embeddingness (I know it’s not a word.) in Flock’s blog editor.
The demonstration of Flock’s basic blog editing features is now complete.
Flock’s blog editor is rather^H^H^H^H^H^H (I would insert a strikeout, but there’s no button for that and I don’t go around memorizing random tags…yet) very basic, but it loses some of the quirkiness of the WordPress blog editor (e.g. backspace occasionally deletes the space in front of the character).
One complaint is that Flock doesn’t have theme support yet. However, that’s okay. Flock already has a nice theme:
Insert screenshot here.
You’ll notice the star button to the left of the address bar. That is a button for bookmarking. Media streams, search engines, and RSS feeds are also featured (whenever a page with one of those is loaded, the corresponding button lights up and makes it easy to subscribe to, say, an RSS feed, or install a search engine.).
To be continued, where I will talk about social network integration (the main feature of Flock).
Blogged with Flock
Google Flight Simulator.
Obviously stepping on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator’s doorstep.
So, what is this thing?
Google flight simulator is an “easter egg” (not really; google’s help site gives controls on how to use it) in Google Earth.
First, you need to download the latest version of Google Earth.
Click on the Earth. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A.
This will bring up a dialog box. Choose the plane (currently there are two) you want and choose the runway you want to start on.
The basics:
PgUp is speed up
PgDn is slow down (equivalent to letting the gas pedal in a car come back a little).
The up arrow key is to aim down.
The down arrow key is to aim up.
Left and right keys are really hard to use; they tilt the plane left and right, and it’s impossible to “renormalize”.
I just use Shift+left and Shift+right. They don’t work as well, but they turn the plane.
For explanation of these key shortcuts, go to the Google Earth controls help page (my second link).
What if you found the perfect place to fly (such as Chicago with 3D buildings enabled), but it’s far away from the nearest supported runway?
In the dialog box, you can select “Current position” to fly at that spot. Note that if you’re facing down, the airplane will start out going down.
I’m just very busy.
NEVER try to run Windows Vista on a computer with just 1 GB of RAM.
In other news, I will recommend Terragen as the best (read: the only one I know of) terrain generator and renderer. I’m using it to create backgrounds for my computer.
And no, the rest of those Chicago pictures are not back up yet.
I’m writing this post from Safari for Windows. From what I heard (CNet Buzz Out Loud), it was released to allow developers for third-party iPhone plugins. It looks pretty good, especially with the font smoothing.Unfortunately, there’s no smooth scrolling.And I can’t get the link up to the page, for some reason.Well, here it is, in its full HTTP glory: http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/ The top bar (title bar) looks sort of odd because there’s all this white space at the left (the title is centered). I’ll probably get used to it. A huge pet peeve of mine is that I can’t just hurl my cursor at the upper right corner of my screen and left click to close the window. If I do that, I end up closing the window BEHIND Safari, like with iTunes.If you like “that Mac look” but are stuck on Windows, Safari and iTunes are nice steps to getting it.Now that I’m previewing it, I see that Safari also takes out all my nice line breaks. So much for white space… I am NOT going to post from inside Safari until they get this thing fixed…
Update: now that I’m on Firefox, I’m going to reflow the lines and add the links:
I’m writing this post from Safari for Windows [technically Safari 3 Public Beta].
From what I heard (CNet Buzz Out Loud), it was released to allow developers for third-party iPhone plugins.
It looks pretty good, especially with the font smoothing. Unfortunately, there’s no smooth scrolling. And I can’t get the link up to the page, for some reason [Link is now here]. Well, here it is, in its full HTTP glory: http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/
The top bar (title bar) looks sort of odd because there’s all this white space at the left (the title is centered). I’ll probably get used to it.
A huge pet peeve of mine is that I can’t just hurl my cursor at the upper right corner of my screen and left click to close the window. If I do that, I end up closing the window BEHIND Safari, like with iTunes.
If you like “that Mac look” and don’t mind not using a different (read: NATIVE) web browser, this is for you. Now that I’m previewing it, I see that Safari also takes out all my nice line breaks. So much for white space…
I am NOT going to post from inside Safari until they get this thing fixed…
