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Turn your Xbox 360 Controller or just about any other controller Into a Mouse!

mike0488 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:46 +0000

I found a hack this afternoon on how to turn your Xbox 360 controller into a mouse using a nifty little program called Joystick 2 Mouse. Check it out! Completely free to use. You have to tinker around with the settings in order to get it just the way you like it to suit the needs of your particular controller configuration. To use the mouse with the Xbox 360 controller using this program, just use the right stick. Button configuration as far as keyboard commands, functions, num pad functions, and various other windows commands are up to you. Uncertain if it works on Macs, you can give it a shot though. Configurations vary widely from controller to controller, so experiment with your wired/wireless Xbox 360 controller or whatever other controller you may have.

Also I have for you Spill’s review of Pelham 123. Enjoy.

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Site Update

mike0488 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:01:49 +0000

Hey everybody, just wanted to let you all know my current plans as far as the site goes.

Currently, I’m working on moving the site to another server, as well as changing the look of the site. As you can see, I have already changed the look temporarily just to change things up, add a hint of color at the moment. Very attractive wordpress.com theme, don’t you think? The theme I have set now is called Vigilant.

So sit tight! More is on the way. I think everybody will be impressed with the new layout I plan to roll-out sometime very soon.

Spill Movie Review – The Hangover

mike0488 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:47:21 +0000

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Project Natal – Xbox 360

mike0488 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:47:54 +0000

Check out this impressive video demonstrating Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 product called Project Natal. The idea behind this project is to COMPLETELY immerse you in whatever game you’re playing, completely removing the controller from the game, forcing you to act out everything that you can do in the game. I can see this new add-on benefiting a lot of people. You can also talk to your Xbox. Feast your eyes on the video below:

Check out F.lux!

mike0488 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:48:00 +0000

Do you spend countless hours in front of a computer?

If the answer to this question is YES, then check out this nifty program called F.lux. This program makes your monitor adjust accordingly to the time of day at your current locale. This is an ingenious program. I’m definitely going to be using this for awhile, I have already tried it out, and it works pretty well.

Thanks to my good friend Alexandra of Miss-Behaved.net for sharing this program.

I have MORE music for you. Check out Hollywood Undead. Formed in 2005, and originally known as “The Kids” the band consists of 5 people: Johnny 3 Tears, Charlie Scene, Funny Man, Da Kurlzz and Shady Jeff. You can get more information here. Their music is hard to categorize into one genre, but rather a mix of multiple genres. Their sound is unique. They have posted a video called “The Hollywood Undead Story” Watch part 1 and 2.

Check it out below, as well as an official music video called Young. Other links will be provided at the bottom of the post.

Hollywood Undead on Myspace and Facebook
Official Site

The E3 Entertainment Expo starts TODAY!

mike0488 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:07:20 +0000

Thats right, today, the E3 Entertainment Expo, the biggest computer and video game showroom in the entertainment industry will be open to the masses! As usual, the big 3 will be duking it out(Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo). Any predictions about this years expo? leave some in the comments below. Plenty of sites will be covering this event, here’s some sites to get you started, happy surfing:

Nerdiest-Kids(of course)

I haven’t posted music in a long time, so I figured why not today. Enjoy the music video “Chromeo – Tenderoni.” It’s pretty entertaining. Another chair dancer.

Chromeo on: MySpace or Facebook
Chromeo’s Official Site
Chromeo Wiki

This week’s gonna be good. I’m excited about this week.

Just some random video…

mike0488 — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:05:09 +0000

Happy friday! Enjoy this random LULZ video…

Ah, how I love me some internet memes.. Might post something else later. Stay tuned.

Blog Update: Talk with me or other site visitors live!

mike0488 — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:20:34 +0000

I just embedded a small chat to the top of the page, check it out! To change your nickname, just type “/nick *namehere*”. I would love to hear from you. No registration required, just go ahead and start chatting away! Click the picture above this post to go to the Talkinator website.

Spill Movie Review – Up

mike0488 — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:18:24 +0000

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Windows Makeover: Windows 7 Beta Build/RC Side By Side Comparison Pics

mike0488 — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:57:11 +0000

Yesterday, Ars Technica has published a 9-page blog post on the changes in apperance from both the Windows 7 Beta version and the new release candidate. Be prepared to do a lot of reading, or, if you were like me, just skimmed through the 9 page post just looking for changes in the UI design. The explanations listed under each side by side comparison pic do get sort of lengthy on some of the images shown. There have been some really great changes made to the release candidate. A lot of known issues and bugs have been repaired, the speed of the OS has been increased, and its biggest features have been completed.

In this blog post you will see pictures of dialog boxes mainly. Some of their texts have been re-worded, and changed in some way, shape or form. Some of the changes you may or may not like, but since I won’t go pointing things out, you will have to judge this for yourself. There is an index in the post on the main page, so you can easily jump to any of the changes that have been made to each program that originally comes with Windows 7. Without further ado, you can check that post out right here.

I’m not done with today’s post yet! so please, I beg of you..

I just had to share these great YouTube videos of “multi-track” voice singing recordings with everyone. These video’s can be found plastered all over YouTube, and frankly, I had no idea these masterpieces even existed, and if you’re just checking my site out for the first time today, and you have heard of this phenomenon, sorry for being late to the party. One of my NK budddies, ViggoTheCarpathian of Gaming Update News had shared a video early in the morning over a Skype chat I have been participating in that has been going on all day and all night of this 1 man recording his voice in 4 separate parts, in split screen, in 4 different pitches of a video shot of himself singing a short song entitled, “When I Leave The World Behind” which will be the first video below this explanation. When you first watch a video of this type, it really takes your breath away. Check it out now!

If that wasn’t enough for you, its going to get a little more complex in the next video. This video features 8 tracks. Again, beautifully sung. He sings “Scarborough Fair”. Lots of overtones in this video, but he executes them well.

That was a jaw dropper huh? This next and last video is a multi-track video of a Star Wars tribute song to John Williams. I won’t go into detail about this video, since I would be spoiling it by doing so. Just watch below.

Check out the video response to that video as well. Funny stuff!

Thanks for taking time out of your busy (or not) day to check this out, and as always, thank you for checking out my blog, and coming back to read about what’s new.

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