5/24/2010

Google Gives the Gift of Pac-Man Forever

Ian Paul, PC World

May 24, 2010 9:36 am

Due to overwhelming popularity , Google has announced that its interactive 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle has earned a permanent spot on Google.com. From now on, whenever you need a Pac-Man fix just point your browser to Google.com/pacman and you can enjoy the search giant's version of this iconic video game any time you like.

Google Gives the Gift of Pac-Man Forever

While you've been able to find online versions of Pac-Man for years, Google users were thrilled to find a working version of the video game designed as Google's logo on Friday.

Google posted the homepage doodle in celebration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary, and the game was only supposed to remain available for 48 hours. But enthusiastic user feedback to "Pac-Google" inspired the search giant to rethink its plans. Numerous sites popped up offering free downloads of Google's Pac-Man for those who wanted to keep their own copy once Google took the game offline. Twitter users cracked jokes about how Google had killed U.S. productivity on Friday by putting the game (including all 256 levels) across the screens of millions of office workers. There were even suggestions that Google's JavaScript-based Pac-Man was a subtle jab at Apple CEO Steve Jobs .

When Namco and Midway games introduced Pac-Man to North America in 1980 it quickly became a fixture in American popular culture. Pac-Man inspired numerous video game spin-offs, board games, lunch boxes, a Saturday morning cartoon and several versions for home video game systems.

Despite the overwhelming user reaction to Google's 30th anniversary doodle, I have no doubt Pac-Man fever will start receding over the next few days. But never fear, once this version of Pac-Man is forgotten, I have no doubt it will live on as fodder for those always popular articles detailing Google's best Easter Eggs of all time.

Connect with Ian on Twitter (@ianpaul ).

Posted at 10:33 AM by Garry Broughton Jr. | Category: PC/Console Games | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

5/19/2010

2010 NBA Mock Lottery Top 14

2010 Mock Lottery Top 14

Updated: 5/19/10 12:10 am

1	Washington	John Wall	Fr.
2	*Philadelphia	Evan Turner	Jr.
3	New Jersey	Derrick Favors	Fr.
4	Minnesota	Wesley Johnson	Jr.
5	Sacramento	DeMarcus Cousins	Fr.
6	Golden St.	Al-Farouq Aminu	So.
7	Detroit	Greg Monroe	So.
8	LA Clippers	Patrick Patterson	Jr.
9	*Utah	Cole Aldrich	Jr.
10	Indiana	Xavier Henry	Fr.
11	New Orleans	Donatas Motiejunas	Intl.
12	Memphis	Avery Bradley	Fr.
13	Toronto	Ed Davis	So.
14	Houston	Hassan Whiteside	Fr.

*Click Here For Entire 2010 Mock Draft.

Posted at 10:40 PM by Garry Broughton Jr. | Category: Sports | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

5/15/2010

Vargas is a CAT!

Junior-college power forward Eloy Vargas committed to Kentucky on Saturday during his unofficial visit to Lexington. Landing him will give UK the No. 1 class in the country again.

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3/1/2010

Extend Windows 7 RC 3 days (DO IT TODAY)

-Step 1: Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Enter your administrator password.
-Step 2: Type the following command and press Enter:slmgr -rearm (Note the space after slmgr and the hyphen in front of rearm.)
-Step 3: Restart Windows 7.

Tested and worked for me. It has given me an extra 3 days to get my OS straight and stopped the reboots.

Good Luck!

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2/12/2010

Get Pumped (GO CATS)

Thanks for the pic Chris!

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1/29/2010

SNOW GO AWAY

That is all

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1/25/2010

Windows 7 GODMODE

I read this article over at Daniel Browns SharePoint Blog thought I would share it with you. I tried it on my Windows 7 RC and it worked great!

Windows 7 “GodMode” Shortcut can give you a whole heap of settings of Windows, all accessible from a single location!

Its not exactly Godmode (IDDQD) but more of a launching pad for 232 options to change!

To get this feature on Windows 7, First create a new folder (I created mine on the desktop), then rename it to:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The icon should change to the same one as Control Panel which indicated your done. Double click on the folder and bask in the 232 glorious options!

Note: I tried this with Windows 7 x64 & Windows 2008 Server R2 x64, there are reports of it working on Vista, However there are some reports of this causing Vista x86 to crash, while x64 seems to be unaffected.

Original Link: http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=367

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1/23/2010

#15 it's Dentist time!

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1/21/2010

Corporate Ladder Explained

So true, so true....

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1/20/2010

Hoops for Haiti Ebay Auctions

So I just read up on a little piece of info that isn't very advertised. Did you know that the company Ebay uses for charity auctions (MissionFish) takes their own cut of the donation? Yep you heard it, they skim off the top for themselves from the very money we want to go towards this relief effort. Considering that at this moment the Calipari dinner is up to almost 80k that would net them almost 4k of that money for themselves. I understand they need money for their operating costs but come on sounds like a complete bunch of bull, especially when you get high price items. I seriously doubt that their operating costs would require that kind of cut.

See their chart and explanation below:

Understanding the minimum donation

While nonprofits value all gifts they receive, it does take resources for them to process these donations. However, we understand that you might want to use eBay Giving Works even when your item is likely to sell for a small amount. If your item sells for less than $10 your donation will automatically be $1.

Donation deductions

Although it is a nonprofit, MissionFish does have to spend money to screen new nonprofits, process each donation, keep their technology up and running (and constantly improve it!), provide training and customer support to nonprofits, and hire and maintain a small, but top-notch staff that works hard behind the scenes to help us bring you eBay Giving Works. In order to help offset the costs they incur in helping us run the program, MissionFish deducts a small amount from each donation they process from individuals and businesses (they do not deduct from donations that result from nonprofit Direct Selling).

The table below shows how we determine the amount deducted from donations.

Donation Amount	Amount Deducted From Donation
$1-$49.99	20% of donation
$50-$199.99	20% of the initial $49.99 donated ($10) + 15% of the remaining donation
$200-$999.99	20% of the initial $49.99 donated ($10) + 15% of the initial $50-$199.99 donated ($32.50) + 10% of remaining donation
$1,000-$4,999.99	20% of the initial $49.99 donated ($10) + 15% of the initial $50-$199.99 donated ($32.50) + 10% of initial $200-$999.99 ($112.50) + 5% of remaining donation
$5,000+	20% of the initial $49.99 donated ($10) + 15% of the initial $50-$199.99 donated ($32.50) + 10% of initial $200-$999.99 ($112.50) + 5% of initial $1,000-$4,999.99 ($312.50) + 3% of remaining donation