Free your Viking friends encased in ice - Time Waster
Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-Wasters, Web
Nothing makes me feel better about -40 degree temperatures outside my house than seeing cartoonish people actually frozen solid.
Ice Breaker is an addictive little Flash game where your goal is to free your Viking comrades from their icy prisons. To do it, slice off chunks of ice so that they slide (or fall) into the waiting ship. The brutish fellow with the hammer will then break the ice and free his friends.
It's a simple enough game, but make sure you eyeball the course before you cut a viking loose - you may need to modify his path first so he doesn't, say, fall into a nasty crevasse as in the screenshot. Fortunately, you can restart the level and try again.
Ice Breaker is an addictive little Flash game where your goal is to free your Viking comrades from their icy prisons. To do it, slice off chunks of ice so that they slide (or fall) into the waiting ship. The brutish fellow with the hammer will then break the ice and free his friends.
It's a simple enough game, but make sure you eyeball the course before you cut a viking loose - you may need to modify his path first so he doesn't, say, fall into a nasty crevasse as in the screenshot. Fortunately, you can restart the level and try again.
[ via JayIsGames ]
Free your Viking friends encased in ice - Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsSUPER video player and encoder releases 2009 version
Filed under: Utilities, Video, Windows, Freeware
If you're not familiar with the program, it's based on Open Source projects like FFMpeg, libavcodec, MPlayer, and MEncoder and can play or convert just about any video file - even to formats for the Nintendo DS and PSP.
While the "everything on one page" interface hasn't changed, a number of new encoding and play features have been added or improved, like WMV9, FLAC, and OGG support.
One downside to SUPER is the horribly constructed website. There's not a clear location for the download, so I'll save you some hassle: go to this page, press your end key and look for Download SUPER @ setup file.
[ via CyberNet ]
SUPER video player and encoder releases 2009 version originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsAccess 1,000,000 quotes in your browser at QuotesDaddy
Filed under: Fun, Web services, web 2.0, Web
Whether you're writing a speech, searching for something witty to add to your email sig, or just looking for a little inspiration, QuotesDaddy's massive database is a good place to look. With over 1,000,000 quotes categorized and tagged, it's easy to navigate and find a topical quote. You'll find everything from the wit and humor of Groucho Marx to the wisdom of Sun Tzu.
Like just about every other site on the net, social functions are built in. Once you've signed up for an account you can add quotes to your favorites and share them with friends. RSS feeds are provided for daily quotes, and you can also have them sent to your inbox.
Widgets and a full API are provided should you want to integrate QuotesDaddy's verbage into your own web site or app.
Like just about every other site on the net, social functions are built in. Once you've signed up for an account you can add quotes to your favorites and share them with friends. RSS feeds are provided for daily quotes, and you can also have them sent to your inbox.
Widgets and a full API are provided should you want to integrate QuotesDaddy's verbage into your own web site or app.
Access 1,000,000 quotes in your browser at QuotesDaddy originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments"Altruistic" Trojan blocks Piratebay and Mininova access
Filed under: Internet, Security, P2P
The trojan doesn't appear to be particularly malicious. Its mission: to prevent you from downloading torrents from PirateBay and Mininova, keep you from reading the forums at SuprBay, and the remind you that you shouldn't be downloading illegally.
A couple modifications to your hosts file are made that point the affected domains to your machine. Removal is fairly quick and painless - just get rid of the entries from your hosts file. If you need help, check out the helpful FAQ on MVPS.org.
Maybe this is the RIAA's new sinister plan: instead of suing everyone, they're just going to threaten, guilt trip, and annoy downloaders into submission. Whatever it is, there's more than a little irony in hiding something with "good intentions" inside a keygen inside a torrent.
Unsure about a torrent you were planning to download? Check out Vertor and see if they've indexed its contents first.
[ via TorrentFreak ]
"Altruistic" Trojan blocks Piratebay and Mininova access originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsYackTrack shows you all the places people are commenting
Filed under: Blogging, Social Software, web 2.0, Web
YackTrack is just getting started, so new features are rolling out quickly. There's already a bookmarklet you can use to avoid unnecessary copying and pasting, and a FeedFlare you can use to track a given URL. On top of that, YackTrack features a "chatter" search, so you can see what people around the web are saying about any given search term. I tested it out with my name, and it looks like a fantastic ego-surfing tool. It's probably even more useful if you're in customer relations and want to track what people are saying about your product and service. You can even subscribe to the search results as an RSS feed.
YackTrack shows you all the places people are commenting originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsPhishing scam hits Twitter. Don't get sucked in!
Filed under: Security, Web services, web 2.0
To be safe, don't click on suspicious links, even though they're coming from people you follow on Twitter, and don't compulsively enter your login info without checking to make sure you're actually on a Twitter.com domain. This scam is particularly tricky because of the nature of direct messages, which have to come from people you've allowed to contact you. The Twitter Eng and Ops teams are aware of the problem, according to a tweet from Twitter's Biz Stone, and a warning message has been added on the Twitter homepage.
Phishing scam hits Twitter. Don't get sucked in! originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsDisplay GMail unread message count on the favicon
Filed under: Internet
Install the Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon script for Greasemonkey, and that problem is solved. The script overlays the current count on Gmail's envelope icon and it will display even when you're not parked at your Inbox. It's nice to be able to keep tabs on new messages without tabbing back to Gmail.
The icon will also become brighter as the number of unread messages increases. You will, of course, need to have the Greasemonkey addon installed as well.
[ via Lifehacker ]
Display GMail unread message count on the favicon originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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