Teh Über Micro

The Indie Gala!

2012-02-04T03:39:00.000-06:00

Just thought I would share another bundle with you guys I just got 11 games and 7 music albums for only $7! This is my first time on this I think the Humble Bundle is a bit better with drm free and cross platform but the games in this are on steam and they look awesome!

Source: www.indiegala.com

Humble Bundle now for Android!

2012-01-31T18:17:00.000-06:00

I was introduced to Humble Bundle the end of last year by my friend. I've loved it ever since. What is Humble Bundle you ask? Well it's a pay what you want game pack that is put together every so often. Part of the proceeds go to one of many charities. For everything you get in the pack if you bought it separate it would be significantly more. The games are cross-platform Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. They are DRM free and you also receive steam codes for the Windows and Mac versions of the games as well. You also receive the sound tracks for each of the games. So basically you get super cheap games and you get to give to charity what more could you ask for in life! Humble Bundle is probably one of the best values you can ever get so go pick yourself up a copy right now and get your friend a copy too!

Source: www.humblebundle.com

Google+ the Public Social Network.

2012-01-27T18:11:00.001-06:00

I just read this case study by this guy Tim Moore about Facebook and Google+. I thought to myself how I use Facebook verses how I use Google+. My conclusion was Google+ is a Public Social Network and Facebook is a Private Social Network. Now what I mean by that is the majority of the things I share with people on Facebook I share with only my friends and not publicly. Now my question is what is the point of even posting things publicly on Facebook I don't really see a way for people to find public posts. I mean yeah you can probably use the search to be honest I've never really tried it before.

On Google+ almost all of my posts are public and you can find them in multiple ways. If you follow me you can find them, if my post makes it to What's Hot you can find it, if it's reshared, or if you're searching for a certain topic you can find my posts. On Facebook I get very little replies to things I post. On Google+ I have complete strangers that comment, plus one, or reshare my posts. So I find I am more actively using Google+ than Facebook and in fact most of the posts I make on Facebook are just posts or other things I found on Google+. I find this a little ridiculous that most my posts come from Google+. Lately I've been trying to get my friends to try out and use Google+ I prefer it over Facebook and in my opinion I think it's an overall better service if you understand it and know how to use it. I thought I would share this with you guys anyways have fun using Google+!

Source: CASE STUDY: Google+ vs Facebook engagement

Finally Hit 7,000 Views!

2012-01-26T20:17:00.003-06:00

I'm really happy to announce that the site has finally hit 7,000 views! I thank everyone that has been visiting the site I'm hopefully getting a couple of my friends to start making some posts on here and get more content on here for you guys!. When I get some time I'm going to start doing more reviews and other posts my self. My goal for the site is to hit 10,000 views or more in the next couple months and get daily posts and increase the followers. Everyone please comment the posts, make suggestions to any improvements we can make I'd love to hear what you think about us. I am getting a lot of the site redesigned and I hope you like the new look. Over the next little while were going to switch the site over to be a more professional tech news site type look instead of just a blogger look. Please follow us on Google+ and comment there as well thanks again guys!

Google's Policy Change & Why it doesn't really matter.

2012-01-25T23:27:00.000-06:00

"Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you're signed in, we may combine information you've provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we'll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience."

Everyone and their dog is freaking out about Google changing their privacy policy globally across all their services. This is to benefit you and everyone else that uses Google. Now let's think about this logically you use Google most likely on a daily basis for everything, they already know everything about you and everyone else, don't you think they would have done something with that information if they were going to already. We all know they use it to make personalized ads big deal I get ads that want me to buy The Legend of Zelda merchandise. They are combining all their privacy policies and all their services into one tidy package aka Google+. This benefits us all we don't need 10 different accounts and profiles scattered around Google's different services. Your data that they already have i.e. everything you ever uploaded or input into anything Google related will be combined together and will be usable by you across all of Google. So there is no need to worry Google knows what they are doing. The privacy policy will be effective in march if you continue to use Google services after that point you automatically accept the new privacy policy. If you decide you don't want to accept the new policy feel free to delete all your Google related accounts.

Source: Official Google Blog

New Domain Name!

2012-01-24T02:58:00.000-06:00

Just thought I would tell you I switched the blog over to www.TehUberMicro.com! Anyways I'm pretty excited I got a real address now and I hope it will get me more traffic I really am trying to put time aside to post on here and hopefully I can get more writers and such for the site. My last post about WebRTC got hundreds of views. I really want to post more stuff you guys love and keep things awesome. Any suggestions are welcomed just post it in the comments or on the Google+ page. Please follow the blog's G+ page! You guys are awesome make sure to tell your friends about the new site.

Google Chrome the future of the internet.

2012-01-24T01:59:00.000-06:00

For a long time I've used Firefox and I enjoy it because it is so customizable gui wise. But a few months ago I started using Google Chrome and the extensions, stability, and innovation that is has are far surpassing what Firefox had to offer. Now let's look at a few things. Chrome is the closest to have complete compliance with the HTML5 standard on HTML5Test.com the latest nightly version of Chrome gets 387 and it should actually get another 20 points for having web cam input support now. Chrome is doing multiple things to help the user out. Number one it's allowing us to get rid of the "required" browser plugins like flash and the ones you need to use your web cam, microphone, or game controller on websites. Next with NaCl it is allowing us to run full applications and games without the need to download and install them on your computer you can just run them inside of Chrome. By allowing us to do these things it let's us put all of our stuff in one place and have it on the go any where we have Chrome. Eventually we will have full Chrome support on Android allowing us to do all these amazing things on all our other devices. Now taking it a level up Google+ which is integrating all of Google's Web services will become more integrated with Chrome allowing us one place for all of our computing needs. Anyways I'm excited for whatever the future brings and it looks great! Go Google!

WebRTC Test

2012-01-22T05:04:00.000-06:00

I thought that I would post this on my blog. It's a small html5 app that let's you do video calls without having an extension or plugin of any kind. Anyways in order to use this you need to have the latest Chrome Developer Channel installed you can find it HERE. But if you want to host your own you can download the files HERE. You'll need a friend to try this with. Anyways have fun!

EDIT: Well I removed the demo because someone posted a much better one HERE. Another blog post was made on WebRTC with more demos you can find it HERE.

Source: www.WebRTC.org

Been Busy

2012-01-20T18:11:00.001-06:00

Sorry for the lack of posting on here lately. I've been pretty busy with college lately. I hopefully will post some awesome stuff soon. I will most likely do a review of Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the HTC Thunderbolt once it is fully functional! Anyways thanks for following me! If there is anyone that wants to write for the blog message me!

GetJar Gold!

2011-12-23T16:18:00.005-06:00

Many of you like me are Android users and you love to download apps but you don't like paying for them. GetJar Gold similar to Amazon's Free App of the Day is a program to get paid apps legally for free! They update GetJar Gold on a weekly basis adding new paid apps to the list. I've gotten so many paid apps for free between GetJar and Amazon that I almost never have to pay for any of my apps. If your like me you should check it out!

GetJar Gold

Native Client comes to Chrome!

2011-12-23T15:24:00.002-06:00

Recently Google had a press release about Native Client (NaCl). Basically the idea behind it is you can run native code (C, C++, or C#) inside of chrome so you don't have to learn a new programming language and can even port existing programs to NaCl. This allows you to install a small extension into Chrome and then play games and use programs that you would other wise need admin privileges to install onto a computer. So far I have played three different games that have been ported to Chrome and can be found in the Chrome Web Store. My favorite so far is call Bastion it's quite an amazing game I highly recommend you check it out. I look forward to when I can install all my games this way it's a lot less hassle for me to do it this way and there is no limit on what an NaCl game can do. There are quite a few major game companies and partners that are working on products for NaCl including Square Enix, Unity Technologies, and Bungie. Anyways I posted some links below!

www.GoNaCl.com

Bastion for Chrome

So many F2P Games! Why not Ultima Online?

2011-12-16T21:15:00.001-06:00

So I've had a lot of fun and excitement lately. First they made World of Warcraft free to play till your level 20. Now Everquest II is free to play and I'm like that's awesome I've always wanted to play that but it's so much a month. Last night I was so excited to find that Lineage II one of my favorite games is now free to play as well. There is a new amazing Age of Empires Online also free to play. Than I found out about a new free to play Command and Conquer game. So many free to play games! So my question is why can't Ultima Online switch to the free to play model that would be amazing. Heck I would pay $50 for the game it's self if there wasn't any monthly fees. Ultima Online was the first to do it good and still does it the best except for the dated graphics there really isn't anything you can't do in UO. The game is now 14 years old and you can Build a house, tame a dragon, be a spellweaving ninja pirate, bake a pizza you name it! I hope someday soon I have my wish and I can play UO for free without paying $15 a month that I don't have. I put some links below have fun playing games for FREE!

Age of Empires Online

Free to Play on Steam

World of Warcraft Free till level 20

Commandand Conquer Alliances

TripleTown Review

2011-12-08T04:20:00.001-06:00

I'm not super big on browser based games or the type of genre Facebook originally seemed to have created. But I found this new game on Google+ it's a very unique little puzzle game I seem to keep going back to when I'm bored. The game is a puzzle game where you randomly get items to place into your little town and when you combined the items you create new plants or buildings in your town. As you play the game you learn how it works and you begin to build up your little town and have it last longer each time. The most dreaded items to get are the bears and ninja bears. Bears can be combined to create churches I found it fun to get as many bears as possible in a confined area and take them out all at once! Ninja bears on the other hand mostly get in the way teleporting around each time you place a new item blocking your way. If you ever get bored and want a unique new game to play I highly recommend this one to kill some time. The only thing I dislike about the game is after a while when you run out of moves you either have to wait a couple days to get more moves or pay actual money to buy them. Have fun building your town!

Play TripleTown Now!

Increased Traffic :)

2011-12-08T04:00:00.001-06:00

This month we had over 700 Views which makes me happy! This next month I want to get over 1,000 views and get more followers on my Google+ Page for the blog. I'm going to make more of an effort to post more often and post things that you guys want to see. Please post any suggestions or ideas to help me out! In the future once I get enough posts my self I plan on getting some more authors (not paid or anything just for fun unless we actually started getting ad money which so far we haven't had any). Also eventually I plan on getting a domain name for the blog next year! Anyways I appreciate everyone that commented and viewed the blog thanks a lot!

Skinny Google Bar

2011-12-05T21:13:00.001-06:00

I found a user style on this site it wasn't exactly what I wanted so I tweaked it so it worked just right anyways I hope you guys like it all credit goes to the original author of the script please reshare so others can use it! You can find the script HERE. EDIT: This guy took my script I edited and made it even better check it out HERE!

Pre-Google Bar:

Google Bar Before Script:

Google Bar after Script is applied:

New Google Bar and YouTube rolling out!

2011-12-02T04:32:00.001-06:00

Well the new Google Bar and YouTube are rolling out but I have been using them early before I officially got the roll out with a simple cookie change.

To get the Google Bar early on Chrome while on www.google.com press ctrl+shift+j click CONSOLE (on firefox just press ctrl+shift+k) then copy and past the following and click enter after which refresh the page.

document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; domain=.google.com; path=/; expires=" + (new Date("2013-12-1")).toUTCString()

Get Google Bar Early

Get new YouTube Early

ColorEye App Review

2011-11-30T18:33:00.001-06:00

I haven't really done any reviews of any kind for a while so I thought I would do one for an app my friends at Valkoria Software are making. It's a unique idea I don't think I've seen anyone else try and do. The app uses the camera on your Android device to determine what color objects are. It displays the name of the color as well as the RGB and other information. This app is not only useful for Artists but also by people that are color blind in fact many of these people have actually gave this app good ratings and commented that it has helped them quite a bit. Valkoria software is a newly founded software development company in the near future they plan on releasing more apps including one called codename smoke bomb. I look forward to seeing their new apps anyways give ColorEye a try it's pretty awesome!

Market Download

Google+ Revolution?

2011-11-29T18:21:00.001-06:00

I've been using Google+ for quite a while now and I love it! Google is amazing and they are smart. I think I have a small idea of what they are planning with G+. They have said they will integrate it into all their services and there will be only one login and profile for all of your Google Service needs! What does this mean exactly? Well here is my idea for this. This is very preliminary I might decide to add more to the concept later.

In this mockup it has the new Google Bar (This may not be completely what it looks like because I have yet to receive the new update) that is rolling out right now. I added both YouTube and Blogger Tabs to the profile.

This mockup is how the YouTube tab in a G+ Profile could look integrating the users YouTube Channel into the tab.

The Blogger tab pulls the rss feed from the users blog and shows all their blog posts inside of G+ the user can also choose to create a G+ Page for his Blogger account and have that as a feed for others that want to follow the blog on G+.

These images are simply mockups of some ideas I have for the future of Google+ I hope that you guys like that and hopefully someday similar ideas will be implemented into Google+ creating a services that combines all the Google services in a way that would be easy for everyone!

New Google+ Page!

2011-11-19T13:30:00.001-06:00

I created a Google+ Page for the blog to try and gain more followers. I hope that more people will start following once again. I'm going to try and start posting more and I also need more writers for my blog so if your interested contact me! This is just for fun it's not a job or anything I just do it for a hobby. Anyways I hope you guys like the blog and what I'm posting hopefully I Get more interesting stuff soon!

You can find our page HERE!

New Go Launcher Ex Themes

2011-11-18T16:48:00.001-06:00

Lately I have been making more Go Launcher Ex Themes and uploading them to the Android Market. A new ThemeFactory has been released and I encourage Artistically talented people to make a theme or two. If you like my themes please consider buying one of my paid themes as a donation!

GreenDroid Donation

Market Link

SpaceOdyssey

Market Link

Rainbow Circles

Market Link

retroPlus

Market Link
This is a CM7 Theme I ported to Go Launcher the Original can be found HERE,

Screenshot Gallery of all my Themes
My Go Launcher Theme Thread on XDA

Note: My Zelda Theme and Facebook Theme are no longer on the Market because of Copyright issues so if you want them they can be found in Theem Thread.

Why I don't like Apple.

2011-09-16T15:50:00.002-05:00

Most of you know I don't like Apple (I make it pretty obvious) I have multiple reasons why that is. I've had many bad experiences with Apple's products. In high school I used Macs for two years in my media production class because of data corruption (which happened for no apparent reason) my 3 week project was lost this happened to me twice.

A lot of people don't know this but for 3 months I owned an iPhone (it didn't have service though) but honestly that didn't matter the fact that it was so uncustomizable and was locked to one computer and forced you to use iTunes made it horrible.

Now let's evaluate this more. Yes in many ways mac is better in that it has (until recently) better security than Windows. Next up it has a lot of good software that comes with it iMovie, garage band, ect. It is based off of Unix (but if I want to go that route I would choose the better free OS Ubuntu which I dual boot already). They are made to be so insanely simple anyone can use them (or so I'm told I have yet to find that to be true but I haven't learned all the new shortcuts on it).

Now here is why it isn't good. All Apple hardware is "proprietary" but after IBM ditched Apple and Intel started making the hardware that became mostly a lie. Yes the adapters and such are all custom but the actual hardware is exactly the same hardware that is used in a PC. Now that brings me to my next reason why I dislike Apple all their products are horribly over priced your paying for hardware that you can get on a PC for $300-$600 on a Mac it cost $900 to $2500. If I wanted to use Mac OS X I could download it and install it on a computer I paid $300 for because it's the exact same hardware just in a different package. The software for Macs is very limited and uncustomizable I have thousands if not more of applications for a PC or a Linux computer than a Mac.

My conclusion is that if people did their research and tried other products they would find much better products for less money with more options and openness. Now for phones, tablets and media players (not a lot yet but very soon there will be quite a few) there is Android which is an open source operating system based on Linux created and maintained by Google. You can do anything you want on Android devices from installing non-market applications out of box to completely replacing the OS with another unofficial customized or newer version of the software. I plug my phone into my computer and it comes up as an external drive I can drag and drop files to it or use any program to sync to it. Or I can throw files on it over a network. My homescreen is completely customizable with apps, widgets, live wallpaper, and themes on IOS you have an endless row of unorganized apps and you can have a different wallpaper no custom anything without jail breaking your device and even then the unofficial stuff is limited by what the OS allows.

For computers there are many options if you don't like Windows I understand Windows does not have a good track record for being secure and 75% of viruses are for Windows XP (so get a Win7 PC that resolves this problem!). The main security issue is the user, if you use good Anti-virus software which you should on any OS and you exercise caution you won't get viruses. I haven't had a virus effect my computer for like 5 years (excluding the time I was away for two years I couldn't protect what my sibilings did to my pc) so it is possible not to have viruses attack our PC every second of the day if you train your self the right security precautions. If you want to use something other then Windows use Ubuntu Linux it's probably more secure then Mac OS X and best of all it's FREE and 99% of the software that runs on it is FREE. It will do everything your Mac does and most things a PC will do. I choose to use Windows because I am more proficient with it but if the new version goes in a direction I don't like I'll just switch to Ubuntu Linux. Now the reasons I will never use macs are that they are overpriced and completely closed off, they force you to use their software, their unupgradable/unfixable hardware, they sell you a product that does less for more of your money when other products that cost less money are in reality better. This is all from my experiences with technology in all three major OSes of Computers and other electronics of course everyone has the right to their own opinion on the matter but I hope that you re-evaluate yours based on the information I have presented to you in this blog post.

Google+

2011-08-02T23:02:00.004-05:00

Google+ for Android

I just thought I would take a little time to talk about Google+ or G+ as a lot of people are referring to it now. G+ is Google's new social network to rival Facebook. When it first came out I wasn't sure if I liked it and how simple it was but as I dove in more and more I was able to find that G+ has many useful features that Facebook lacks.

First of all it's different in the fact that if you have someone in your circle (instead of friends you have circles) you are following those people and you may or may not be in the other person's circle. Similar to following people on Twitter, circles are independent of everyone else's profile so if you or the other person chooses they can be removed with out anyone ever knowing. It's also a simple way to conveniently separate people into their proper social groups aka Family, Friends, Acquaintances, and people who you're just following.

Next up in G+'s line of features is drag and drop sharing of pictures and videos and soon files as well. I find it way more time consuming to upload pictures to Facebook, on G+ I just type my comment drag and drop my pictures or videos and click share, choosing who I want to share it with (everyone, extended circles, specific circles, or only certain people.). Personal messages can be done privately via the main page by simply choosing only that person to share a comment with, thus resolving the dreaded personal message wall posts Facebook is plagued with.

Now my all time favorite feature offered by G+ is the Hangout. When you "Hangout" on G+ you enter into a multi-person video chat which you can have up to ten people in, simultaneously, all with their own webcams and microphones! In addition to that you are able to have text and watch YouTube videos together even videos that have a live feed! To hangout you simply click the green "Start a Hangout" button on the right side of the screen and choose who you want to invite (just like sharing things, you can choose everyone, extended circles, specific circles, or only certain people.). Once you do this it will post an invitation that shows who is in the hangout and it will show up on everyone's feed who was invited. You can also add people by sharing the url that the hangout has which is unique to that specific hangout.

In Addition to the actual website that G+ has, there is also an Android application which has an auto-upload feature for pictures and videos you take with your Android device. It has many other features which I won't be covering in my review of G+. The app can be found at the link at the beginning of this review.

I hope you enjoyed my small overview of Google+ and what it is. I hope to see you on Google+ soon!

Get started with your Google+ here!

Here are some useful links to help you get started with your Google+ experience:

Google Plus Nick
Google+ Tutorials

Start Google Plus Website

The Unofficial Google+ Wiki

Earth Eternal: Reborn

2011-08-02T19:40:00.002-05:00

I've been waiting a long time to play this game and it is amazing! My brother, a few of my friends, and I have been playing this game for the past week or so and it's pretty awesome there aren't any humans in the world of Earth Eternal only animals! So you get to choose to be a Wolf or one of the many of races available as well as there being several classes to choose from. Please keep in mind this is an open beta and it has a few bugs here and there and unfortunately after the beta all characters will be wiped to start fresh for the final version of the the game. I encourage you to check it out! You don't need to create an account just use your Facebook account to login. The game is free and will continue to be after the final release.

http://www.eartheternal.com/

New Team Bamf Website!

2011-08-02T19:06:00.001-05:00

As I posted before I have an HTC Thunderbolt I use a custom rom known as Das Bamf by a group called Team Bamf and they have an awesome new website and forum for anyone who wants to check it out it's the best rom out there for the TB! Anyways check it out!

http://teambamf.net/

Go Launcher Ex Themes!

2011-07-08T16:53:00.002-05:00

I have not posted on my blog in forever! Please forgive me anyone that is actually still following me! Lately since I've been home from my mission I've been getting into the Android Dev community and such. I'm also going to start school soon and I will be taking an Android Development class as part of my degree, since it counts and will also help me learn Java. Anyways I've been messing around a bit and I made a couple of Go Launcher Ex themes I thought I would share with you guys. Of course the first one is The Legend of Zelda. The second one is totally random it's a Facebook Theme. Anyways here they are! If you don't know what Go Launcher Ex is, it's a replacement launcher for Android that has a lot of customizable features including extra home screens, press to hold delete, and themes of course. I use all of GO Dev's products you can find their site located HERE!

My Themes

Legend of Zelda Theme:

Download

Facebook Theme:

Download

More Screenshots

My original post on XDA can be found HERE. It also includes a small guide I wrote to help you get started so you can make your own GO Launcher Ex Themes!

Tornadoes!

2011-04-28T23:51:00.000-05:00

Well just like it says. Unfortunately there has been a huge Storm here in the South that caused a lot of damage I'm mostly undamaged how ever we remain with out power for possible the next 4 to 7 days! I'm running on a gas generator and my internet is pretty unreliable. I'm hoping things get better. The video on here isn't mine but it shows some of what happened if you want to see others go to youtube and type in East Limestone Tornado.

Posting from HTC Thunderbolt!

2011-04-27T02:00:00.002-05:00

Just a test post from my phone! Awesome!

4G LTE VS 3G!!

2011-04-27T01:34:00.004-05:00

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While I was in Atlanta, Georgia I had a chance to try out some 4G LTE awesomeness any this was my highest test results on Speedtest.net's App on my HTC Thunderbolt it was blazing fast and freaking amazing anyways my average was about 10 to 15Mb/s on 4G LTE and probably 1Mb/s on 3G. Verizon is amazing they just need to hurry up and get 4G LTE working in Huntsville and Decatur so I can get it in Athens where I live!

Finally back!

2011-04-27T01:18:00.002-05:00

Well as I posted two years ago I left on a two year mission for my church and was not able to post on here during that time period anyways I'm back and ready to post again! I just got an HTC Thunderbolt and I love it I'll be getting into the Android Development Scene right now trying to code apps and probably roms trying to get stuff going as I try and learn more stuff to help me out with school. I'll post anything I make on here to try out or any reviews I have of products and apps I use. Anyways thanks for supporting me and my blog!

I need new authors.

2009-02-05T08:23:00.001-06:00

I’m sure many of you have noticed I haven’t posted anything lately. Well that’s because there hasn’t been much to post and I have been sick/busy. My mom just had surgery so I have to take care of her and on top of that I am expected to keep the house clean and other things. I am leaving on a mission for my church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints) and I’ll be leaving on March 25th to Ogden, Utah. I will be unable to post news on the site in the time I am away for this and require one or more people to be authors on here if your interested please contact me as soon as you can!

Drunken Coders Competition!

2009-01-20T15:26:00.001-06:00

For those of you that don’t know the entries for the DCC have been released! It looks like there's quite a few good Wii and DS Entries only thing that disappoints me is that they are mostly all Christmas theme and well its almost a month after Christmas. Anyways check them out HERE.

Messenger Plus! WLM 9 100% Compatible now!

2009-01-11T09:09:00.001-06:00

As some of you know the Messenger Plus! Live addon for WLM was not fully compatible with the latest version of WLM 9. Anyways they just released a new beta version today that is fully compatible and a non-beta 4.80 will be out by the end of the month! You can get it HERE.

Source

Windows 7 Beta and WLE Final!

2009-01-09T15:38:00.001-06:00

Wow lots of stuff to post today. First off if you don’t know yet you can now download your self a copy of Windows 7 Beta 1 as it’s now been publically released. There of course was a leaked version but now those of you that have it and those of you that want it can get a legit key to activate your copy of Win7 Beta 1. On a different note Windows Live Essentials Pack is now final version with the exception of the Movie Maker which is still in Beta. However there is not yet a new build of WLM so if your wanting a new build of messenger there will probably be one in February which should be the official “Final” Build of Messenger 9. Also in other news tomorrow you can expect the release of a 100% compatible version of Messenger Plus! Live. You can grab the Windows 7 Beta HERE. Also you can find the WLE HERE. If you don’t already have Messenger Plus! you can find it HERE.

NOTE: Microsoft has been having server problems because of the high traffic so if you can’t get the Windows 7 beta then it’s best just to wait and keep trying and hopefully you will get in. Also before downloading plus make sure it’s the correct version for your build of messenger and that when you install it you DO NOT install the sponsor program.

3D Emoticons for WLM!

2009-01-07T10:28:00.001-06:00

I know a lot of you use WLM and I do as well and I love it. If your one of those people that has WLM 9 then you should give these a try they are Official WLM “3D Emoticons”. They were for some odd reason released in France first but if you want to you can install them on your messenger. Make sure to uncheck the boxes on the second page to avoid changes to your default browser. These are spyware free because their official! Anyways if your on Vista/Win7 make sure to run them as an Administrator for some reason it didn’t seem to work other wise it could just be me. Also apparently you have to be signed in with all your chat windows closed. First install the main installer (the big purple button with the Emoticons on it). Then after that feel free to get additional emoticon packs listed below. There are a total of 9 extra packages you can get. Anyways get them HERE.

SocialURL

2009-01-07T08:46:00.001-06:00

Do you have a bunch of profiles online and don’t want to remember all your URLs for each and everyone of them? Well I have a solution for you! It’s called SocialURL you input all your networks all on one easy to remember page! (SocialURL.com/WhatEver) And this page will be your hub for all your online profiles. It’s been expanding over the years and I find it sad that there's a lack of people using the service when its so useful. Tell all your friends to join so we can make this site more popular and so it won’t get shut down! From what I can tell they are going to be doing a whole site over hall to make it even better! Anyways signup today it’s way awesome!

http://www.SocialURL.com

Zelda Reorchestrated

2009-01-06T18:04:00.008-06:00

Hey all,

I found this project awhile back, and the guy does really great work. He takes original Zelda compositions and recreates them with some Mac software (he may say on the site, not sure) and realistic samples. I've always really liked the music of Zelda (perhaps by Koji Kondo? I think, not sure), but check it out. Everything's available for download, and is licensed under a CC license.

http://www.zreomusic.com/index.php

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T14:04:00.001-06:00

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Holidays! I probably won’t be posting news for a little bit since well there's not much to post and I’ll probably be busy. On a different note I’m in dire need of authors for the blog especially since I’ll be taking a long trip soon and I won’t be able to make posts.

Dragonball Movie Trailer!

2008-12-19T18:38:00.001-06:00

For those of you that are fans of the Dragonball and Dragonball Z anime shows this may interest you the first trailer for the live action movie has been released and it looks way awesome!

Source

Club Nintendo in North America!

2008-12-17T18:44:00.001-06:00

The long awaited Club Nintendo has come to North America you can now register games and take surveys and other things to get Free Rewards. If you’ve never heard of this before it has been offered in Europe and Japan for many years but now we can enjoy it as well.

http://club.nintendo.com/

A-Patch now WLM RC1 Compatible!

2008-12-16T21:50:00.001-06:00

For those of you that use WLM you can now use A-Patch to customize it to your liking including removing ads, removing timer for nudges, more then 3 transfers at once and many other things. Get it HERE.

Windows Live Essentials!

2008-12-15T12:59:00.001-06:00

Finally the long awaited WLE Pack has been released you can now enjoy Windows Live Messenger 9 RC1 with over 200 bug fixes as well as the other programs in the package! Get them HERE.

Edit: For those of you use that use Messenger Plus! this build is not fully compatible with the current version of it however it will load the menus and features such as tabs and Custom Statuses still seem to work.

HBC Version 1.0.1!!

2008-12-13T18:26:00.001-06:00

Well after a long wait the Home brew Channel finally has a new release. There’s not really many noticeable changes other then it being a little faster and you can use different kinds of controls. Hopefully in the future we will see more drastic changes such as DVD and USB drive loading for homebrew. Also I’m hoping that they will make it easier to organize your homebrew in the order you like it in future release.

Txting in Gmail!

2008-12-13T15:30:00.001-06:00

If you haven’t logged into your Gmail account lately now is the time to do it because you can now txt message to USA cell phones directly from the Gmail chat. After your enable the SMS feature in the labs settings you can type a phone number in the chat to send messages to that person. Happy Txting!

Homebrew launcher

2008-12-10T15:17:00.000-06:00

I said I wouldn't completely give up on this blog, and I kept to my word :D

The Wii Homebrew launcher started out life before even the 10 minute limit version of the Homebrew channel, before wiimotes had even started to be usable. In truth, the Homebrew Launcher was the first Wii Homebrew loader with a graphical interface. And by god, even back then, it blew everything else completely out of the water. For the time, it was beautiful. Of course, it used a gamecube controller, the graphics by today's Homebrew standards were not too good, and it used the infamously terrible SD library, but it was the best thing anyone at the time had seen. Of course, since this was before the wad manager or the Homebrew channel, you had to use the slow-to-boot twilight hack to start all your Homebrew. However, takeup was slow, especially with developers who preferred the convenience of apps such as geckoload and tcpload (no prizes for guessing what those did), and including the title.bmp and title.txt that the app then used for the icon and the app name never really became the norm like it did on the hbc quite quickly. However, something as small as that didn't stop the many enthusiasts who created icon packs with icons for tens and later hundreds of apps in. The Homebrew launcher is now of course long obsolete and there is no reason to even think about downloading it.

Or so it would seem.

As a matter of fact, the Homebrew launcher is still very much alive and kicking, and it is mainly ignorance now that prevents people from using it.

The Homebrew launcher is amazing.

It has easy to use support for the four major media types on the Wii: SD cards, usb drives, DVDs, and samba shares. Of course, it fully supports both hbc's method of storing apps, and its own now rarely known about method. It supports Wiiload and compatible apps. Its skins and suPported languages are plentiful and easily customisable. It supports loading of your own Wii channels. It supports storing individual roms and loading them individually, if you modify the emulator slightly. It supports a miniature slideshow for each app if you so wish. The possibilities are almost endless. So, pick up the launcher, learn to get used to the slightly unusual pointer, and see how much easier it can make your life. You won't regret it.

The Homebrew launcher can be booted like any other app or installed like any other wad. For legal reasons, it has no banner.

Download: http://wiihomebrewlauncher.be.cx (if you're not french, use google translate)

New blog

2008-12-04T14:39:00.001-06:00

I've made a blog for my development (because I was getting annoyed at my lack of being able to log in) on The same place where I will host everything in the future (WarpedFla's server)

All non-development posts will go on here as usual.

Thank you.

Sorry

2008-12-04T12:03:00.002-06:00

I've been unable to log into the blog lately, but that's all sorted now. I've done quite a few things since I last posted. I:

Got the new X driver working and made a script for it. This means it is now compatible with all video modes (theoretically; I still need to test 480p, I have the right TV and cable, just haven't been bothered yet). TODO: hack the driver to allow widescreen resolutions (should be relatively straightforward as long as there aren't any incompatibilities).
Got all of the wallpapers looking good, one for each screen resolution (this is set by the TV config script)
Made an alternative config for pypanel to compensate for PAL50's different overscan (again set by the TV config script)
Used and partially tested (only tested with the SD card, not with the image loading or USB loading features) nuvalo's new kernel that he made for me. This makes it quite literally 10 times faster, so some app changes I was going to make have also been canceled as the current ones are now fine and full speed.
Installed a hacked SDL version for supertux, broke DOSbox in the process. Will look into getting supertux to use a different one to DOSbox.

I miight have forgotten a couple of things. There are quite a few things I'm planning now, you'll see when I complete them ;p

Woot!

2008-12-02T18:59:00.001-06:00

It’s getting closer to the holidays and everyone wants to get thier family and friends something awesome. Well I got great news for you. You can get them something both awesome and cheap! Everyday Woot! has a special deal only one item on the site everyday buy it before midnight or your our of luck. Anyways I bought an awesome 10mpix Kodak Camera ($39.99) and 2 Bluetooth headsets ($7.99 for both). These were awesome deals for awesome products I found the same camera at best buy for $200. Anyways get to shopping!

Click Here!

Twilight Hack for 3.4

2008-12-01T23:37:00.001-06:00

I’m sure you all know by now that there is a new TLP hack for the 3.4 update. If you don’t know well now you do unfortunately for you this version is deleted every time you turn off your Wii. So install the HBC and get it over with so you don’t need the TLP hack any more.

Source

Backloggery!

2008-11-30T15:07:00.001-06:00

Well I told you I would find something to post about this week so I did. Anyways I thought I’d tell you guys about one of the coolest sites ever called Backloggery. It helps you keep track of all your games for everything you can think of. Once you make your account you can begin adding games to your list. After you have done so you can rate them track your progress or post comments about them to share with other people.

View My Backloggery

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T18:33:00.001-06:00

I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I’m sorry that this post is a little late but I’ve been pretty busy with stuff lately and haven’t been able to post much hopefully I’ll have more to post this week.

Added: Link to our IRC chat using Mibbit's widget

2008-11-28T22:03:00.005-06:00

On the right, under "Chats", you'll notice an addition. You can click the "IRC chat" link and, using Mibbit.com's (new?) widget, you can join the blog's IRC chat. I think it works great, better than any other web client I've seen. As always, you can still join using an actual client by clicking this link.

avast! Home Edition

2008-11-24T00:26:00.001-06:00

I have used many Anti-Virus programs since I’ve been using computers Norton, MacAfee, AVG, and Anti-Vir. The last three I have used have all been free Anti-Vir was awesome but had a really annoying ads. AVG was awesome but one time didn’t catch a virus like it should have so I switched when my long time friend Walter suggested I use avast! I haven’t had any viruses since I’ve switched to it avast always detects threats before I even download infected files and has saved me many times. It’s very easy to turn off when you need to and when it’s on its awesome it tells you with its own voice when it updates and doesn’t have any annoying ads. You have to get a new free license every so many months but its as simple as visiting a website and clicking a button for an email to renew it. I highly recommend avast! to anyone who doesn’t already have an anti-virus program or who wants to switch to a different one.

avast! Home Edition Site

CDBurnerXP Burning software

2008-11-22T10:50:00.002-06:00

Most people online burn discs, whether they are on a CD-R or DVD-RW, to backup their files, burn a mix CD, or watch their family movies or slideshows. I’ve been using this program for years and it has yet to fail me. It’s a free program that burns everything that you can think of. It even burns ISOs for your Ubuntu Live CDs or whatever else might be an ISO. It’s great to have freeware when it has such great quality. Anyways, check it out and I’ll be posting more of my favorite programs I use on here!

http://cdburnerxp.se/

Tiny Wiimote Projectors

2008-11-21T18:11:00.005-06:00

I just saw this on ThinkGeek and thought it was funny. They're little Wiimotes that you press a button and it projects an image onto stuff of Mario and other characters on their karts. I wish I had the money to buy a couple. Maybe I will later if they're still making them.

Source

Pidgin IM!

2008-11-21T18:11:00.004-06:00

There are so many messengers out there: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr, and Facebook. I have friends on many of these different messengers, but who wants to have 7+ different messenger programs? I have 3 on my computer: Windows Live Messenger (main), Pidgin (secondary), and Google Talk (email). Pidgin is awesome for all of your messenger needs. When you just want to chat with someone, or if you're on Linux perhaps, it’s a great way to not have to use so many messengers. I will greet the day happily when all the messengers merge together like email and other things have done in the past. For now, however, I use Pidgin as my little bird messenger friend to help with my needs.

http://pidgin.im/

Glad I own a Wii :P

2008-11-21T13:41:00.002-06:00

I was browsing the net and found something I thought looked interesting. Apparently the PS3 uses more power than the Wii. Apparently I’m paying $3 a year in power when my Wii isn’t on all the time, while the PS3 uses $15 of power a year when turned off. I think I can afford the $10 a year to leave my Wii on, though, but don’t leave your PS3. It’ll cost you $160 to keep that on.

Source

Join the Wii Cool Zone!

2008-11-21T13:02:00.002-06:00

I know I've got a few people that actually view this blog now, so I just thought I’d make a post about our official IRC Channel for this blog: ##WiiCoolZone on irc.freenode.net ! Anyways, come on in and talk about Wii and whatever other stuff you want with some friendly people just like yourself!

irc://irc.freenode.com/##WiiCoolZone

SUPER ©

2008-11-20T23:29:00.003-06:00

I’m on a roll this week with having posts about stuff other then homebrew, aren’t I? Anyways, I just thought of yet another awesome tool that is free and amazingly helpful. I myself film and edit my own videos in Adobe Premier Pro. When you're all done with your projects you want to be able to encode them with out loosing quality, but have them be a reasonable size. It’s hard to do this with the usual codecs that come with video editing programs. Super is a freeware program that encodes to and from almost every major media format. Not only that, but you can get video files down to a super small size with little to no quality loss to the video. It’s a great program to have if you're going to be uploading to YouTube or any other online video hosting site. So far I don’t think I’ve found a better program to use for getting videos ready to host online, but if you know of something better post in the comments and let me know. Anyways, feel free to check it out.

SUPER ©

IE7Pro Add-On

2008-11-20T23:22:00.002-06:00

People online I talk to always say, "Why do you use IE? It sucks. Use Firefox, it has Ad-blocker, Spell Check, and Scripts, and all kinds of stuff, and its security is better!" Well I must admit Firefox probably is better, but for some reason I just couldn’t adjust to its interface difference. But you know what? It’s not really a problem anymore! I found this awesome Add-On that's free and spyware free. It makes IE have almost everything Firefox has, and anything I can think that you could ask for. It has flash and ad-blocker, Spell Check, Form remembering, Download Manager, Online Favorites storage, the ability to use grease monkey scripts, and many other features. Anyways, if you want to check it out, it's an awesome program.

http://ie7pro.com/

New Themes and more in Gmail!

2008-11-20T14:41:00.002-06:00

I just logged onto my Gmail account only to find there are now a bunch of themes you can choose from! Not only that, but you can choose a theme for each location you login to. Gmail keeps getting better every time I login. It now has Instant Messaging, Video and Audio chat, Themes, Huge File sending, tons of storage for your emails and files, and it doesn’t stop there. In another week or so, every Gmail account will be getting its own email and be able to text message to any cell phone in the USA for free and they can send you texts back to your Gmail phone number! Anyways, I’d say Gmail is by far the best email service, with Windows Live Mail coming in close second. www.gmail.com.

Muzer's Daily Developments - 2008-11-20

2008-11-20T14:39:00.001-06:00

Today I:

Tried, and failed, to get nuvalo's new X driver to work properly. Well, it compiled and worked, but the PAL50 mode still didn't work for some odd reason. I've sent an e-mail out to nuvalo, and will investigate more tomorrow.

That's all. Didn't have time for anything today, really.

Ubuntu Wubi

2008-11-20T13:21:00.002-06:00

I use Windows XP, and it’s because I can’t use certain programs on Linux that I use in Windows. Even with programs such as WINE they just don’t work. However, I love Ubuntu. It’s awesome, and very customizable, and if you didn’t know if you are a Windows user, Ubuntu Wubi has made it even easier to get Linux running on your system by (un)installing it just like you do a program. There is no longer a need to create partitions or mess with your hard drive in unnecessary ways! Anyways, I really love Ubuntu, and if you're a Windows XP user you can customize your Ubuntu install to look almost exactly like Windows XP with THIS. You can download Ubuntu HERE!

Send me an IM!

2008-11-20T04:57:00.004-06:00

I thought it would be cool if I put a little Windows Live Messenger Window on the side of the blog for anyone that wants to talk to me! By now you must think, “Wow, this guy’s getting paid off by Microsoft or something,” but lets think about this: if I was, would I use a blogging service owned by Google? Anyways send me an IM telling me how much you like the blog and any questions you have!

Windows Live Writer!

2008-11-20T04:36:00.002-06:00

I just downloaded the Windows Live Write and used it to make this new blog post. It seems like its a lot easier to use than the in-browser interface. Writer allows me to Create and Edit content on my blog easily from outside of IE in its own Word-like interface. When you first set it up, you type in your blog’s address and your login. It then detects all the settings on your blog and configures stuff. I would say that it’s a pretty fast and easy setup. I’m loving all the new products Microsoft is making lately. I use to hate Outlook, but the 2007 version of it is so simple to get started with. I set it up for my mom, she has a Gmail account, and has a hard time with computers. I opened it and and typed in her email address and password, and it did the rest. It’s really amazing all the stuff these programs do on their own now. You use to input everything manually every time you installed the program. Anyways the Windows Live programs are way awesome, you should really try them out! So far I’m using Write, Picture Gallery and Messenger (which I use constantly and like the best out of them all). Download them here HERE!

Muzer's Daily Developments - 2008-11-19

2008-11-19T15:06:00.003-06:00

I'm starting a new feature that will list everything I did as far as Wii Devving is concerned in the day. So let's get started!

Today I:

Tested davyg's libwiikeyboard with shift support build. It didn't work very well.
Modified the meta.xml for Miight, and added jbc's new icon. I also formatted it for HBL as well, and added jbc's HBL icon.
Implemented new wallpapers into Miight, for all the different TV types
Came up with an idea for a first run script.

That's all, folks!

Happy Wii Day!

2008-11-19T10:34:00.003-06:00

Just wanted to say Happy Wii Day to everybody! It's the Wii's second birthday! I'm celebrating the holiday by wearing my Nintendo Tech Support outfit and playing Wii all day! Comment and tell me how you're spending the holiday!

Info on the Update.

2008-11-18T16:34:00.008-06:00

I have receive a message from Nintendo on my Wii that told me to update to 3.4. The update does not remove the HBC. Apparently, it does however cause both the Twilight Hack and PatchMii not to work. You cannot currently update to 3.4 in an unofficial way like October 23rd 3.3 update with Tona's Updater, but you can however update your Mii Channel with THIS. It has been said in the IRC that Team Twiizers has another game exploit similar to the Twilight hack, one that is working with update 3.4 and uses an unnamed 2nd party game. It has also been said that there will be a simultaneous release of HBC beta 10 and BootMii. It should be reaffirmed, however, that this is entirely speculation.

The announcement lists these changes:

USB keyboard support in Mii Channel
Enhanced parental controls
Twilight Hack version 0.1beta cannot be copied to the console
Improved SD card read/write speed
Improved disc reading

The update appears to include IOS50 (used by menu) and IOS254 (a copy of IOS9, to block PatchMii).

Nintendo has also changed there Privacy Policy as follows:

Old Policy:
"To ensure that your Wii Console is operating properly and efficiently, we may download updates, patches, upgrades, and similar software to your Wii Console. In addition, we may disable unauthorized or illegal software that has been placed on your Wii Console without notifying you where necessary, in order to comply with applicable laws, assist law enforcement, protect us, and our customers, and prevent the use and distribution of software obtained through improper channels."

New Policy:
"We may without notifying you, download updates, patches, upgrades, and similar software to your Wii Console and may disable unauthorized or illegal software placed on your Wii Console to ensure that your Wii Console is operating properly and efficiently, comply with applicable laws, assist law enforcement, protect us and our customers, or prevent the use and distribution of software obtained through improper channels."

Source

USCHTRIS Reviewed

2008-11-18T02:25:00.006-06:00

I'm getting to the last couple entries from the tehskeen competition now. USCHTRIS is a Tetris clone, and well, from what I can tell there's not anything really original or new to it. When I first started it and it went to the logo screen, I thought to my self, "Wow, this has great music, probably the best out of the entries so far, but how do I start the game? Is it stuck or something?" After a few minutes of pressing buttons I finally figured out that if you press the home button it starts the game. The game itself isn't too bad, but there are absolutely no menus and there's nothing special about it. It's just a plain old Tetris game. We already have more than one Tetris game for Wii, why would we want another? I'm sure that the person who made this worked very hard, and it looks great, but it could use some menus and something to set it apart from the other Tetris games that are already out for Wii. We will see what happens with this one in the future. You can get it HERE.
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Controls: 3
Menu Layout: 1
Functionality: 7
Graphics: 5
Music and Sound: 9
Story: N/A

Overall: 5

A look at Windows Live Messenger 9!

2008-11-18T00:21:00.001-06:00

I've been using WLM since it was MSN messenger back in the day and since I'm a beta tester for messenger I get all the new private betas before other people do. I've been using Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta Wave 3 for a while now and it's quite awesome. It has photosharing a better interface and a few other new features. The live team is working hard at finalizeing messenger it has been said that in the final version there will be group video calls and other group features. Also the live team is working on making messenger work with other protocols seeing that they already have Yahoo messenger contacts integrated into WLM it will be great to see all my other messenger contacts on it as well WLM by far is my favorite messageing program and I will celebrate the day when I can talk to all my contacts on it and not need multiple messenger programs. The live team already has a interal beta that has gtalk contacts integrated into it so maybe someday soon we will see a public release of this feature. If you would like a copy of WLM 9 Beta you can get it here I highly suggest it! Also I highly suggest installing Messenger Plus! Live its an awesome add-on that adds features such as tabbed chat windows and custom away messages to messenger.

Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta Download

Msg Plus! Live Download

Note: When you install WLM uncheck all the boxes but messenger unless you want the other programs that are options to download and install. Also when you install Msg Plus! Live choose not to support and install the "sponser" program.

Smashing Updated!

2008-11-17T23:21:00.000-06:00

I'm so glad about this one. Smashing has been updated, and from what I can tell, all the previous problems I had with it have been fixed. The only thing I really have left to complain about is that they need to make the A button work with the menus. Get the new version HERE.

DO NOT UPDATE!

2008-11-17T20:55:00.001-06:00

Recent reports on the IRC have said that update 3.4 from Nintendo will delete all Custom Channels. Whether this means that the Homebrew Channel will be effected by this I do not know. I do not suggest updating with anything other than Tona's Updater as it installs updates without patching exploits homebrew uses. You can download the Tona Updater HERE.

edit by mcpancakes: I received (and probably other people) a message from Nintendo on my Wii message board. It talked about System Menu version 3.4 and what it does. You can find the transcription here.

EDIT: The update has been confirmed not to remove the HBC but it is still not encouraged to update.

Rokoban Reviewed

2008-11-17T19:00:00.001-06:00

Yet another Sokoban puzzle game someone made. This is definitely better than the crude Mario Sokoban that was released awhile back. Its graphics are quite impressive for a Sokoban game, as they are rendered in 3D. You can even move the camera around by pressing the plus button. In Sokoban you have to move crates through the puzzle onto circles until they all turn red. That's how you complete a level in the game. This game, like Portii, has its own level editor, so you can create and send people levels that you created for it yourself. It's a very fun puzzle game to play when you want to take your mind off things for awhile. The game, however, lacked music or sound, which would have made it better. Definitely worth a download HERE.
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Controls: 6

Menu Layout: 6

Functionality: 9

Graphics: 7

Music and Sound: 1

Story: N/A

Overall: 6

Yog Reviewed

2008-11-17T13:14:00.001-06:00

Wow. When I saw the screen for this, I thought, "Man, this is going to be another waste of my time." I loaded it up to find it's actually quite an interesting little game. It's described in the game as "golf as a three year old might imagine it," and it's definitely original. You use your arrow to shoot green things and hit the ball into the hole. After you make it in the hole, you go on to the next level. The game itself has nice music and a pretty good menu. The graphics are okay, but could use improvement. I can see that this game has great potential. Download it HERE.
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Controls: 5

Menu Layout: 5

Functionality: 8

Graphics: 5

Music and Sound: 7

Story: N/A

Overall: 6

Matches Reviewed

2008-11-17T12:58:00.001-06:00

When I first read the title, I thought this game was going to be a memory type card game, but it turned out to be something quite different. Basically, you take turns pressing the home button on the Wiimote, and that's how you take a match (like the kind you start fire with). It's an interesting concept, but honestly this game didn't really have much point to it. If I wanted to play it I'd just get a box of matches and do it in real life.
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Controls: 1
Menu Layout: 1
Fuctionality: 3
Graphics: 2
Music and Sound: 1
Story: N/A

Overall: 1.5

WiiDoom 0.4 Released

2008-11-17T12:27:00.000-06:00

The new WiiDoom was just released. It's supposed to have a new menu for PAD/WPAD selection, but I haven't downloaded it yet. I'll get it when it gets put on the Homebrew Browser. If you want to download it manually, you can get it HERE .

Yay for me as well

2008-11-17T01:02:00.000-06:00

I'm mcpancakes and I've been brought into the loop of this just like Muzer. I'll probably only edit other peoples' posts for punctual/grammatical correctness, but I might make a post of my own here and there. I have almost no coding experience, but am currently learning C and C++ (everything I've done can be downloaded here) and one day hope to contribute to the Wii (or any platform, for that matter) homebrew scene.

Portii Reviewed

2008-11-16T23:45:00.000-06:00

Yet another review I have for you. Portii is a strategy type game where you're a misshaped companion cube named Portii, and your quest is to eat all the cake that you can. Portii can make portals: one blue and one orange. When he goes through one, he comes out the other. Portii is made by beardface, the same person who made WiiPhysics, and it's by far the most well made game I've played from the competition. Its potential for replay is a lot more than the other games that were in the competition. Portii includes its own level builder, with support for uploading your custom levels to the Portii website for other people to use. Portii is a great game. Get your copy at the project's site: http://www.portii.com/.
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Controls: 10

Menu Layout: 9

Fuctionality: 10

Graphics: 8

Music and Sound: 7

Story: 7

Overal: 8.5

New rating system and layout :P

2008-11-16T20:57:00.000-06:00

As you can see below I have my first review and I've decided to have my own rating system using "Micros" on a scale of 1 to 10. Right now there will be six different categories that will be part of the rating Controls, Menu Layout, Functionality, Graphics, Music and Sound, and Story. I will give those each a rating and then average them together for the Overall final rating. I may change this at a later time I'm still working on how I'm going to do it all. Right now I really need someone that's good with images to create me some better icons for my rating system since I lack the talent to do so (I made the current ones in paint using an imagine i already had). I also hopefully would like to get a new not so generic layout for the blog. If you can help with ether of these please comment or email me.

CosmoRacketti Reviewed

2008-11-16T20:50:00.000-06:00

CosmoRacketti is a flying spaceship game it's graphics are pretty decent 3d and it has the ability to do multiplayer right out of box on the first screen. I like that it's level based and you can have your score and progress through the game but if you mess up it resets your score to what you had on the previous level and lets you try again. The controls are pretty good although they take a while to get use to because they completely rely on the accelerometer from what I can tell with the exception of the A and B buttons which are used for weapon fire to shoot enemies and obstacles. As you progress through the game there are more obstacles added and it of course gets harder. I really like this game but I feel that maybe it could use a better menu and a few other game play modes. The music is good but it lacks variety what I played of it there was the same music for all of it not a new song or variety of songs on the different levels. look forward to seeing what more this game will offer in the future if it is expanded upon maybe we can expect to see an online mode for it.
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Controls: 5

Menu Layout: 3

Fuctionality: 8

Graphics: 7

Music and Sound: 3

Story: N/A

Overall: 5

Smashing! Reviewed

2008-11-16T16:59:00.000-06:00

Well this is the first game I've tried from the competition and I must say it's quite impressive and very well done. Smashing is a 3d target shooting game. You can do eather single player or multiplayer. It has 2 levels so far that you can choose from one shooting targets another shooting bottles. I would say that it's a great start and I would love to see it progress more have more features and levels this game looks almost like its strait off the Wii Shop Channel. I unfortunately found a few bugs that I think will be bad for the coder in the competition. First of all when your in the menus once you hit one theres no way to go back so if you go into the settings theres no save settings if you accidentally click multi player and just want single player then you have to beat it to go back. Second thing I found was there is no way to exit back to the HBC this is a key feature that needs to be in all homebrew applications. Last thing that I found was the game doesn't completely fit the screen my score is at the top and it's cut off so I can't see it when I'm playing also at the bottom of the screen some of the buttons are also cut off and you can't reach them. Don't let what I said deter you from downloading this awesome game! Once these minor things are fixed this game will surely be one of the most popular homebrew games on available.

EDIT: All the bugs have been fixed in the 1.1 release so I thought I might redo the review score.
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Controls: 8
Menu Layout: 7
Fuctionality: 7
Graphics: 8
Music and Sound: 4
Story: N/A

Overall: 7

Tehskeen Thread
Wiibrew Wiki Page

Hot Coffee Indeed!

2008-11-16T14:58:00.000-06:00

I just had to make the title of this post the Jack Thompson reference I've been using all week for the tehskeen competition downloads. Anyways they finally came out after waiting for so long. There looks like there's quite a few pretty cool looking ones I haven't used any of them but I'll be posting a review of a couple to tell you how they are. They aren't on the Homebrew Browser just yet but i'm sure they will be shortly if you would like to manually download them they can be found HERE. It looks like theres quite a few really good homebrew to download from it and some others that are mostly basic games other people have already made. So far from what I see on the page I'm most excited to play Smashing and Portii. The game launching application looks awesomely useful. Anyways I'm off to test some of these out.

First look at Wii Speak in action :P

2008-11-15T15:52:00.000-06:00

EDIT: I removed the video because some people where having problems with seeing it properly on the blog I'm not really sure why it wasn't working but you can view it HERE .

I just found this video of Wii Speak in Animal Crossing and it's quite a bit different then my Wii Speak Concept I came up with in 2007 before it was even announced. It's more like your in the same room with the person not having to wear something which is kinda nice for games like Animal Crossing but not so nice for FPS games where you want to have the conversation private between your team or keep it down so other people can't hear it. It looks simple and easy to setup but the video just showed the actual conversation and not really any installation I'm sure in the near future we will see how it fully works. Here's a link to my concept that I came up with in 2007 for a voice chat system for the Wii interestingly enough it has the same name maybe its because they couldn't think of anything better like me or they just liked me name and nabbed it.

Click Here.

WiiDoom's New Menu!

2008-11-14T14:28:00.000-06:00

I've been hoping for this for a long time because I hate switching out my WADS (not to be confused with Wii WAD files) and PWADS so much when playing doom on Wii and it's finally happened its getting a menu so you can easily select from your library of doom mods and not switch out files. Anyways heres a picture of the new menu that the developer has released.

Source

Wii Speak and Other News.

2008-11-14T13:35:00.000-06:00

It has been reported on a number sites that you won't be able to buy the Wii Speak accessory used because to download the software you are required to input a one time use code called the "Wii Download Ticket Number" you apparently can't download it directly from the shop channel and customer support won't help you even if you lose or have your code stolen. Also for Wii owners in Australia according to an IRC Channel user the newly released Wii Music contains the 3.3b update that causes the IOSes to have the signing exploit patched so it's not usable this can be avoided by using Gecko OS or Starfall. Please note I have never used Starfall so I don't know what adverse effects it might have although people that do use it say it works good.

Yay

2008-11-12T17:21:00.002-06:00

I've been granted access!

Does anyone read this?

EDIT: Matthew_8 (aka link_of_hyrule) told me to put details of what I have done and what I am doing, etc, in chronological order, so here they are

txt-read: A text reader for the Wii. Taking a break, a pretty functional version can be grabbed from wiibrew

wiishophaxx: A replacement for the Wii Shop Channel (working title). Cancelled: Nintendo stopped the ability of viewing the wii shop channel on the PC. Never got functional.

IOS51 and Wii Shop Installer: Lets you download and install the newest IOS51 and the Wii shop channel without removing homebrew. What made my name really, even though it literally just involved modifying 4 lines of code and commenting out a load of crap. Just because nobody else could be bothered to do it, I did it, and got praise :D (obviously no longer being worked on)

Miight: A distro of Linux with Xorg and many many other things. Again, like IOS51 and Shop Installer, none of it is my work, but I'm the person who has enough free time to sit there and spend ages putting all the bits together, making them work, etc. Still being worked on, was leaked, the leak was easily dealt with (and hopefully that's the last we'll see of it).

WiiTrivia: Trivial Pursuit for the Wii, can download custom databases n shit from the internets. Currently just starting, making pretty good progress but stuck on returning a struct array to main, can anyone help me here (nobody will ever read this probably, heh)

So that's all my projects. Pretty boring? Pretty much. Anything you want to help with? Just ask me.

I'll stick this on my wiibrew user page actually.

So far this week :P

2008-11-12T16:50:00.000-06:00

Well a few interesting things are happening lately first off I guess Animal Crossing: City Folk is coming out on Sunday with the Wii Speak microphone. I'm not that much of a AC fan but it looks pretty cool and my brother loves AC. I don't have the cash to get it right now maybe for christmas. Next up the Tehskeen competition will be ending this week so hopefully that will bring a lot of great homebrew releases. Still no news on BootMii hopefully that gets released soon. On a different note Muzer is working on his Miight linux gui for Wii and its coming along nicely it will hopefully have Wi-Fi dongle support and when BootMii is released maybe internal Wi-Fi support. If anyone has found a leaked version of this please do not use it. It has a major bug and was not meant for release please remove any links for it thanks!

Thats it for today I guess hopefully I'll have some better news for you soon.

Homebrew Q&A Video!

2008-11-11T18:40:00.001-06:00

Here is the remade version of the Homebrew Q&A Video I hope you like it. I used Windows Movie maker to add in some titles and stuff make it a bit better then what I had before.

Homebrew Q&A!

2008-11-11T17:05:00.000-06:00

I've decided to record a Homebrew Q&A video and post it on here so its up to you the readers! I need questions that you would like to be answered in my video post anything you want in the comments and if I think its appropriate I'll put it in the video! Anyways get to posting those questions!

The Beginning

2008-11-11T01:55:00.000-06:00

Well I decided to make this blog although I'm not really sure what it's going to be about. I'm sure I'll find something interesting to post on here you know hopefully make it interesting for you people. Anyways I'll probably post some awesome stuff I find online on here and anything interesting that happen probably post some videos I make when ever I get back to filming and editing. I stopped a while back because my hard drive broke so I lost my editing software also I lost the space to store the uncompressed footage. If you know anything about video editing you know it takes up several gigabytes per project. Anyways if you want to see some of my videos I have some right HERE I'm sure I'll eventually post more maybe when I get back from my mission I can actually start up on that web show I've been wanting to do I had the first episode of my web show "Uber Micro" finished a while back but I lost it when my hdd broke so I might start a new web show completely different then what I had before. I thought my Wii Video Cast was pretty good it's just too bad that the people at the Wiire.com didn't accept it so I had to remove the awesome intro and stuff I worked on for 2 weeks and it made the whole thing rather boring my new Video Cast will probably be something similar but not something that has news that gets too old as fast as what I had I don't think I'll be able to make the video casts fast enough to do that. As you can see I'm into gaming and such a lot and also Wii Homebrew if you would like to get into that try visiting http://www.wiibrew.org/ its an awesome site that will help you with anything you need if you need help go on the irc for Wiibrew or try my irc channel irc://irc.freenode.net/WiiCoolZone if you don't have an irc client I suggest IceChat it's much better then mIRC in my opinion you can get it here http://www.icechat.net/ .

Anyways I guess I better not write any more then I already have else you will just get bored by it all.

Link_of_Hyule aka Matthew_8 (on the Wiibrew irc)