Archive for November, 2008

Snow Flakes on Your Mac

Posted in Gadget, Collections, Events, Tools, Download on November 30th, 2008 by ahwe!

Snowfall is a beautiful screensaver for this Winter season. Upon start, it is beautiful snowflakes with a deep red background. It’s easy to install and it looks great.

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Hidden Tetris Game in Mac OSX

Posted in Gadget, Games, Leisure, Classics on November 22nd, 2008 by ahwe!

1. Open the finder
2. Open Applications
3. Open Utilities
4. Open Terminal
5. type “emacs”; click enter
6. Press ESC + X at the same time
7. Type “tetris”
8. Play Tetris! Use the arrow keys to move and rotate the blocks, and press the space to make the blocks fall.

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This isn’t really a part of the Mac OS, it’s a part of emacs which is part of the UNIX system. Most Mac users don’t know this is included with their computer. There are many more games included as well. To know what other games are included, do the following:
Open the terminal again, at the prompt type:

“ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play”

Don’t forget the space!

You’ll get a directory of the games included with emacs,
to play these games do the same thing as with tetris,
except type your chosen game’s name in place of tetris.

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Meet Rovio

Posted in Gadget, Photos, Collections on November 11th, 2008 by ahwe!

Rovio is a robotic wireless roaming webcam that can be controlled from anywhere as long as there is an internet access, be it notebook or mobile phone. You can see, hear and communicate using Rovio as if you were there.

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Not available in Singapore yet, but you can try ordering it online.

I want this for my Xmas gift, yes you heard me.

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Gears On!

Posted in Games, Events, Entertainment, Hobbies, Leisure on November 6th, 2008 by ahwe!

Singapore Arcade Showdown is Singapore’s inaugural nationwide Arcade Gaming Competition, to be held in The Arena Zone of Anime Festival Asia 2008, in search of the best arcade gamers in Singapore.

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Date: 22 - 23 November 2008
Venue: Suntec Halls 403-404
Time: Timing and schedule to be confirmed on later date.

There will be 3 exciting competitive games to choose from:

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The competition will have group stages, followed by playoffs stages. The finals stages will be held on AFA Live main stage for maximum spectatorship.

Be there.

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Random Playlist

Posted in Music, Collections on November 6th, 2008 by ahwe!

01- Cerf, Mitiska & Jarenc - Light The Skies (Retrobyte Classic Electrobounce Mix)
02- Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Armin Van Buuren Mix)
03- Oceanlab - Satellite
04- Tom novy feat. Abigal bailey - Runaway
05- Dobenbeck feat. Joana - Please Don’t Go
06- Orjan Nilsen feat. Tarah - Be As One
07- Dash Berlin - Till The Sky Falls Down
08- Glenn Morrison - No Sudden Moves
09- Global Illumination - Tremble
10- Mindscope - Second way
11- Arctic Quest - Strings & Guitars
12- Rio Addicts - The Distance
13- Markus Schulz feat. Andy Moor - Daydream
14- Markus Schulz -Fly To Colors
15- Markus Schulz feat. Chakra - I Am
16- The Doppler Effect - Beauty Hides In The Deep
17- DJ Shah - Palmarosa
18- Markus Schulz and Departure with Gabriel and Dresden - Without You Near
19- Interstate - I Found You
20- Vincent De Moor Presents Emerald - Fly Away
21- W&W - Mustang
22- Markus Schulz feat. Departure - Cause You Know
23- Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the sky (Wippenberg remix)
24- Armin Van Buuren feat. Herman Brood - Saturday Night (Video)

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