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Happy Birthday to da OmniDragon!!!!!!!

  By gardenofcleta | May 24, 2012 - 9:00 am | ,
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Happy Birthday Omni!! Sent With very heartfelt wishes I hope you have a wonderful day filled with happiness and lots of smiles. Wish I was there in person to give you lots of big birthday hugs but this will have to do Cleta gives da OmniDragon lots of birthday hugs!! You are such an awesome person Omni :)
If you would like to wish Omni Happy Birthday you can go to his:
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And wish him Happy Birthday :)

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Happy Easter Everyone!!

  By gardenofcleta | April 7, 2012 - 10:50 pm | , ,
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Happy Easter Everyone!!!

I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter I hope you get lots of Chocolate from the Easter Bunny!

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Since this is a holiday weekend I thought I would post some cool games that maybe someone would be interested in playing and first we have a game for Linux (But also available for OSX and Windows) Heroes of Newerth Heroes of Newerth is an action RPG game, based on the popular Warcraft III mod map named Defence of the Ancients (dota). It may be the only choice for linux dota lovers, but thankfully it is the best we could have. This game offers the best “dota” experience, using beautiful graphics and optical effects, atmospheric sounds and music, stable multiplayer with a lot of choices for the player and above all it is free to play (you can buy some extras with real money). This game is evolving with constant update packs every week, and is now already very mature and linux-supportive. It will only get better through this year…must-play. Read all about it at the Web Site Here is a video so you can get an idea of the game play.
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The next game is SuperTux
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GPL. The Milestone 1 release of SuperTux features:

  • 9 enemies
  • 26 playable levels
  • Software and OpenGL rendering modes
  • Configurable joystick and keyboard input
  • New music
  • Completely redone graphics

SuperTux is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX.
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The next game is for ios and it is Solomon’s Keep By Raptisoft. Description: Near the town of Dead Hawg, past the Grimwood, at the very PEAK of Mount Awful, there stands a crumbling tower of mortar and stone. Deep within this foul edifice, the blackest necromancer of modern times, Solomon Dark, sits on his horrible throne. As a near graduate of the Wizarding College, your final exam is to storm Solomon’s Keep. Dispatch the dark wizard, loot his evil possessions, unbind his horrific minions, and prove to your teachers once and for all that you’re not as stupid as you look. In Solomon’s Keep, you move your wizard with one thumb, and fire magic spells with the other. As you destroy enemies, you earn experience points. Gain enough experience, and you’ll gain a level, and can select new skills to help you ascend the tower. Along the way you’ll find gold and magic items. Your helpful teachers are there to explain the ins and outs of wizarding, sell you a few useful items, and even give you a few tips to improve your skills. Along the way you’ll encounter Solomon’s skeletons, zombies, imps, and more. You might even encounter an undead king, and Solomon’s meticulously reconstructed maggot vomiting skeletal dragon. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later. You’ll have a chance to master 21 skills and wield over 50 magic, rare, and epic weapons.
With random dungeons and monsters, Solomon’s Keep offers infinite replayability. It’s never the same game twice!
If you’re fond of action RPGs, Solomon’s Keep will satisfy your black heart. Note: This App may perform poorly at times on first generation machines, due to advanced rendering and special effects. And the last game is a Android game Goldminer v1.9 “Gold Miner” Classic Reproduction! The game requires your keen observation, flexible manipulation, endless intelligence, as well as exceptional endurance. You can mine endless treasures of gold in the crypt to be a new richer.

GoldMiner

All of the above games are free I hope that you enjoy them and I hope everyone has a very Happy Easter enjoy spending time with your families and friends and I wish for safe travels for everyone. :)

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Seashore Simple Image Editor for Mac

  By gardenofcleta | April 6, 2012 - 10:50 pm | , ,
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Seashore Simple Image Editor for Mac

Seashore


Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to offer a replacement for professional image editing products. And the wonderful thing it is Free and you can download here here: seashore.sourceforge.net
What’s New Version 0.5.1:

  • Corrected an issue where color spaces were not always respected.
  • Fixed an issue where some plugins would crash or not respect alpha transparency.
  • Fixed a problem where certain files (such as PDF) could not be opened
  • Worked around a problem where certain color pickers would cause Seashore to crash at startup.

Requirements:
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Seashore has textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It also supports multiple layers, alpha channel editing and uses the same native file format as GIMP. And due to Cocoa, it sports a much slicker OS X friendly user interface that definitely looks better than GIMP.The beauty of SeaShore is that it’s a lot simpler than GIMP and feels a bit closer to Photoshop in the way the menus are laid out. Seashore replaces GIMP’s floating panels and nested dialogues with a friendlier single-window interface for each project. It’s 100 per cent Cocoa too, so is completely OS X native. A sidebar has layer and image data, while tools can be accessed from a menu bar at the top of the document. They’re the usual collection of image editing and selection tools familiar from other Photoshop clones.

Magnifying Glass With Light for iOS

  By gardenofcleta | April 5, 2012 - 10:35 pm | , ,
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Magnifying Glass With Light for iOS By Falcon In Motion LLC

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How many times have you squinted to read something, or tried to read in a dimly lit room, (I have done this many times especially with fine print that is very hard to see) and you just cannot see it enough to read. This wonderful app has a magnifying glass and a light to help you see what you are reading and The First Full Screen Magnifying Glass with clean & friendly user Interface. According to the App Store it is iOS4.2 Tested and the App can transform your iPhone into a Magnifying Glass and the best this of all this App is free at the App Store.
Features:

  • Support Both Portrait or Landscape Orientation. (New in Ver 1.5)
  • Tap Center of the Screen to (Un)Freeze Image. (New in Ver 1.3)
  • Auto turn on built-in light in low light condition when start-up (New in Ver 1.2)
  • Shake to hide/show all control buttons.(New in Ver 1.2)
  • Support Front Camera (New in Ver 1.2)
  • Almost Full Screen (Even Buttons are transparent)
  • Clean & Friendly User Interface
  • Convenient slider supports zooming from 1.5X – 6X
  • Lighted View (Only for iPhone 4)
  • Image Capture ( Both original and digital zoomed photos are saved )

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
FAQ:

  • Q: Why not just using Apple’s Camera Apps?
  • A: In Camera Apps, you only can choose either digital zooming (Camera Mode) or Lighting (Video Mode), not both of them. Also this apps has a bigger view and zooming capability up to 6x.

This Free Apps is supported by Ads, Opt-out is available through In-Apps Purchase.This Apps is designed for iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 and requires iOS 4.0 or above. So the next time you are trying to read the fine print on something or maybe you have forgotten your glasses and need to read something consider checking out this great App.
 

Caffeine For Your Mac

  By gardenofcleta | April 4, 2012 - 4:33 pm | , ,
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Caffeine For Your Mac

Who doesn’t love caffeine, I am a huge Mountain Dew Fan everyone knows caffeine keeps you awake well what about your Mac does it need caffeine? This free app over at the Mac App Store prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back Right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu. Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. You access preferences and set a duration for Caffeine to work its magic (if only that was available for Mountain Dew!) The simple preference window lets you add Caffeine to your login items, display the preferences on startup, and set a default duration. The duration setting is particularly appreciated, since you don’t want to drain your battery unnecessarily just because you forgot to disable Caffeine. The Caffeine app will be welcome for anyone watching Movies, Videos, Working on a project to where you need your screen not to go dim or your Mac to go to sleep.  The Requirements for Caffeine are: Mac OS X 10.6 or later, Ever had your Mac go off to Sleep just when you left the room and forgot to come back in time? Or frustrated when you are in the middle of a download and it got cut off because your mac went to sleep when left untouched if so then give your mac some Caffeine all you have to do is launch the tool and click on the menu bar icon (which is a cup) and it fills with coffee; then it basically doesn’t allow your Mac to Sleep. And you won’t have to worry about your downloads, live webcam or direct-connection transfers from cutting off.  When you’re done, just turn Caffeine off by clicking the coffee cup, it empties and everything will be back to the way it was. And if you only need to temporarily turn off the Sleep function for a certain amount of time, Caffeine can do that for you too.  All you need to do is set the time for Caffeine to be active for and enable it after that period of time is over, Caffeine will disable itself, then your Mac will Sleep after the allocated time in Energy Saver preferences has elapsed.  This feature is exceptionally useful when say, you need to download a file and the estimated download time is 1.5 hours; you set Caffeine to be active for only 2 hours and it will Sleep your Mac after that. Give your Mac a boost of Caffeine and keep it awake while you watch your Movie (Now where is that popcorn app).

Scribes Ubuntu Text Editor

  By gardenofcleta | April 3, 2012 - 4:11 pm | , ,
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Scribes Ubuntu Text Editor

Scribes

Scribes Is Ubuntu Text Editor that supports 70+ programming languages Scribes is an open source text editor for Linux based operating systems which has been designed to streamline the workflow of developers.  It automates common and repetitive operations by providing hotkey support for indentation,paragraph management, line, word/paragraph selection, option to toggle letter cases, etc. Scribes supports more than 70 programming languages, including, HTML, Java XML, PHP, SQL, VB.Net, SH, RPM Spec, Python, Prolog, Perl,Pascal, Ruby, gtk-dic, FCL, Open GL Shading Language, C, C# and so on. Other features include, support for remote editing via FTP, SFTP, SSH, Samba, WebDav, automatic word correction, completion and pairing, document switcher, automatic indentation and a skinable interface.  Scripes comes with an auto hide toolbar You can search document text by simply typing for words or expressions.  The search can be performed according to regular expressions and by find as you type functionality.  Other options in the toolbar offer similar functions that one would expect in a feature rich text editor such as syntax highlighting, theme selection, auto replace editing, printing and other options. I love the fact that it saves the project as you are working it saves it to the desktop which makes it very easy to find when working on a project.  You can change the default theme (I love that option) and access the Theme Selector, Template Editor, auto Replace Editor and Advanced Configurations ( to change text selection color) from drop-down list button present next to Preferences in toolbar. The right-click context menu contains a lot of advanced options such as paragraph selection (previous, next, and reflow), text case changing (title case, toggle case and swap case), indentation, line editing, spacing, input method and insertion options. Each function contains a hotkey listed next to it which makes it easy to quickly perform important tasks.  For example, you can toggle text case by using the ALT+U hotkey.  Document formats can be changed from Preferences.  The Document Type menu contains the list of more than 70 supported document formats. You can also change tab width and font, enable text wrapping, right margin and spell checking.  Ubuntu users can install Scribes from the Ubuntu Software Center, from the developers website (link given below) or by entering the following commands in the Terminal:

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystilleef/scribes-daily
  • sudo apt-get updates
  • sudo apt-get install scribes

Download link: scribes.sourceforge.net
And here is Scribes in action Demo
Arch Linux also has this editor in its repository and it can be installed in Arch using pacman

  • # pacman -Sy scribes

In fact, all major Linux distributions do have Scribes in their repositories and you can use their equivalent package management tool to install it.  Bookmarking specific lines in Scribes is done by moving the cursor to the line to be bookmarked and pressing the shortcut key [Ctrl+D]. Interestingly the same key shortcut is used to both add a bookmark and to remove it.  To navigate through the bookmarks, press [Alt + right arrow] or [Alt + left arrow].  Scribes also has a bookmark browser which you can get access to by pressing [Ctrl+B]. The bookmark browser will be displayed only if you have at least one bookmark in your document.”Syntax Color Editor” can be used to change the syntax color shown in your document. I personally like this text editor a lot it has a lot of components that would make editing or writing code very easy when working with a project,  if  you are looking for a text editor please give it a try.

Importance Of Secure PDF Documents.

  By gardenofcleta | March 30, 2012 - 11:00 am | , ,
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Importance Of Secure PDF Documents

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There are lots of reasons to make your PDF (Portable Document Format) documents secure.  A PDF document is an open standard for document exchange.  According to Wikipedia, PDF was created by Adobe Systems in 1993 and is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.  PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an “as printed” form that is portable between systems and is widely used for distribution and archival of documents.  It has become an essential document format.  A PDF file is readable on multiple operating systems, in a variety of programs, and is able to keep document formatting regardless of the device, operating system, or program it is viewed on.  Users can also easily organise PDFs, bookmark pages for reading later, or even convert a PDF to eBook format.  So many people rely on PDFs for personal and business use it is very important to make sure they are very secure. Here are some tips:  They be can be secured using public keys and/or passwords (but you should, be aware that it is possible to allow print-only access to a file even without the password.)  Many believe that by simply creating a PDF, a document has been secured, therefore making it no longer possible to extract text or images or any other information from the created PDF document. This is not true.  It is not that simple and, in fact, not all PDFs are created equally.  Just because a document is created as a PDF does not mean it is secure.  In order to have a truly secure document that is protected, it is necessary to specially encrypt the PDF when it is created. This article has some great advice, Blogger Sharon D. Nelson, Esq. and I quote from the article.

In order to properly secure an Adobe document, John [Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises Inc.] advises a ‘two-step’ test.

The first step is to apply a password to the Adobe document that restricts any changes to the document (a “Change Permissions Password”). The second step is to apply an “Open Document” password. When both of these are, applied, the PDF password cracker programs cannot get ‘at’ the flag that controls the editing of the document.

You provide your client with the “Open Document” password but not the “Change Permissions Password”. This way they can view the contents of the document, but they have no ability to edit the document.

Using this dual password method, the software that is used to ‘crack’ the Adobe document password cannot get at the ‘flag’ and therefore cannot be used to break the security of the document (at least at this time).

The next time you are creating an important PDF document, please take the extra steps to make them secure.

Will the Future of Next Generation Consoles Be Regulated by the Companies That Make the Consoles Themselves

  By gardenofcleta | March 28, 2012 - 10:45 pm | , ,
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Will the Future of Next Generation Consoles Be Regulated by the Companies That Make the Consoles Themselves

What does the future hold for consumers of next generation consoles… According to this post today from cnet.com
A tipster has told Kotaku that the PlayStation 4 is, named “Orbis,” and that it will feature an anti-used game system, offer no backwards-compatibility with PlayStation 3 titles.
And also there are rumors that the Xbox 720 May Not Play Used Games but will play Blu-Ray and (And Will Introduce Kinect 2) according to kotaku.com. What will happen to stores like gamestop.com will this eliminate the ability to rent games? Will it end the ability to try games before you pay the full price for them. I personally wonder will the next generation console try to integrate online purchasing of games only. In ways this could be good news and it could be bad for people who do not have internet connection and want to buy the games which may still be possible. Some people choose to not buy Xbox live and PSN network just to basically play the games without an internet connection.

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Myself personally I would like to still have, the ability to play used games and for the console to have backwards-compatibility options because you spend a lot of money on these games then … a new console comes out you are very excited you want to buy it and you want to also be able to play the library of games you already have on it. For example if you paid $60 dollars for a new game you really want and you bring it home you play it for hours and hours until you have beaten the game and you would like to trade it for a new game if what they are saying about the rumors of not being able to play a used game you will be not be able to trade so you better really, really like it when you pay 60 dollars for it or what if you buy the game get home play it 10 mins and say I don’t like this game at all then basically you are, stuck with it if this happens with “no used games console”. Will the companies regulate our future in gaming as we know it now? I guess we will have to wait and see what Microsoft and Sony has in store for the new consoles.

Time For Seasonal Allergies

  By gardenofcleta | March 23, 2012 - 8:09 pm | , ,
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Time For Seasonal Allergies

According to AchooAllergy.com Over 50 million Americans suffer from allergies, and approximately 55 percent of all U.S. citizens test positive to one or more allergens, so its time to stock up on lots
of tissues, nasal spray,allergy medicine, and lots of vitamin C to help deal with the onset of Spring seasonal allergies that are upon us now and Springtime brings the pollen that is one of the biggest triggers of allergies and these things are:

  1. Flowers blooming
  2. Tree pollen
  3. Grass cutting
  4. Weed Pollen

They bring out the horrible sneezing, watery eyes,difficulty breathing, all associated with seasonal allergies.Common symptons not limited to include sneezing, itchy watery eyes,itchy nose and/or throat,nasal congestion, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath,and general tiredness.The pollen that is a big trigger of seasonal allergies are tiny, egg-shaped powdery grains released from flowering plants, which are carried by the wind or insects and serve to cross-pollinate other plants of the same type for reproductive purposes. When pollen is present in the air, it can land in a person’s eyes, nose, lungs and skin to set up an allergic reaction. According to Allergies.about.com the best ways to avoid pollen exposure is:

  • Keep windows closed prevent pollen from drifting into your home.
  • Minimize early morning activity when pollen is usually emitted — between 5-10 a.m.
  • Keep your car windows closed when traveling.
  • Stay indoors when the pollen count is reported to be high, and on windy days when pollen may be present in higher amounts in the air.
  • Take a vacation during the height of the pollen season to a more pollen-free area, such as the beach or sea.
  • Avoid mowing the lawn and freshly cut grass.
  • Machine-dry bedding and clothing. Pollen may collect in laundry if it is hung outside to dry.

If your allergies are very severe you should always see a doctor about them and if possible on the days that the pollen counts are extremely high try to stay indoors. Some more advice to help prevent the onset of symptoms is:

  • Cover your eyes up. If you are going outside, cover your eyes up.Wear sunshades or glasses at all times. Protect your eyes from pollen, dust, and other debris that blows around during the springtime.
  • Wash your hands. Another safeguard from seasonal allergy symptoms is hand washing
  • When you come inside change your clothes and shower to get rid of the pollen

I hope maybe some of these tips will help you with battling with your seasonal allergies.

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