JASC Animation Shop v3.11

It's a very useful program for creating or editing GIF animations & can be downloaded for free from here. It also deals with a lot of other image formats apart from GIF too.

PS2 Games

I recently went into a Game store & brought some preowned PS2 games which were, Metal Gear Solid 3, Kingdom Hearts & Yu-Gi-Oh! I got all 3 of them for just £20 & I also brought some PC games from a Maplin store, which were Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Bejeweled 2 & a music creation program called Music Studio Generation MM. I got all of them for £20 as well.

ScummVM Download

If you want to play old adventure games such as Flight of the Amazon Queen or Beneath a Steel Sky on your modern PC, you'll want to download ScummVM. There is a very useful FAQ here, which contains information on how to use ScummVM & how to load & save games.

Corn Programming Language

I first encountered Corn in early 2006, I thought it was pretty good but I encountered problems with program compilation & execution. For some reason after placing the Corn bin folder on my PATH environment variable, Corn would complain that the installation directory was incorrect.

Last year I downloaded the newest version of Corn (v2.8.2) but after trying to compile a simple example with it...

corncmp -o hello.pack hello.corn

I received the following error...

exception of unknown class

I sent an E-Mail to the author of the language to see if he could help but he didn't seem that interested which was a shame.

Planet Lara Soundtracks

Excellent site here where every single track from the Tomb Raider games can be downloaded, you can even download & print the cover & disk artwork for the soundtracks.

Linux PDF Merger

If you're looking for a PDF Merger for Linux, just use your Package Manager to install the PDF Toolkit. In Mandriva this can be done using the following...

urpmi pdftk

Usage is quite simple too, just open a terminal & use the following...

pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output out.pdf

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Mandriva VLC MP4 Audio

I was trying to play an MP4 file in VLC running on Mandriva today. The picture was fine but there was no audio, after some searching I found this thread. I uninstalled VLC then visited Easy Urpmi & downloaded the PLF Media file, after running the file I opened my package manager & installed the PLF version of VLC which also installed the relevent MP4 codecs.

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TNA Impact: 03.05.09

• Part 01: Watch here
• Part 02: Watch here
• Part 03: Watch here
• Part 04: Watch here
• Part 05: Watch here
• Part 06: Watch here
  

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Mandriva

After the Debian disaster, I decided to use Mandriva again. So far it's been working fine, my laptop WiFi has been working without a problem & overall I'm quite pleased. However this morning I received a message about updating my system. After updating, I was told to use the following command...

urpme --auto-orphans

I did some searching & found the following forum threads here & here. After reading them I decided not to do it, as I didn't want to uninstall a lot of programs & find myself in the same position I was in with Debian

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Debian to Mandriva

After a day of using Debian everything was going well until I installed an update which removed about 200 files including my Gnome Desktop. When I then tried to reinstall it, I kept receiving dependency errors because of the different versions of the programs I was trying to install. I almost managed to fix the system but gave up & thought about trying Mandriva again which was the first Linux distro I tried in early 2006.

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PS3 + Killzone 2 Bundle

One of the main reasons I never brought a PS3 was because of it's expensive price & it's lack of outstanding games. But recently with the release of the Killzone 2 bundle, I'm seriously thinking about buying one. For £299.99 you get a PS3, Joypad & a copy of Killzone 2.

Moonlight: Silverlight for Linux

Silverlight was invented by Microsoft & it's a lot like Flash. Microsoft use it on a lot of their sites for videos & programming examples. Linux users can now get a version of Silverlight called Moonlight from here which can be installed as an add-on for Firefox.

Here is a page containing some links to websites which use Silverlight, so you can test your installation.

Flashblock Add-on

I was reading this thread on the JREF forum today about annoying Flash adverts. Someone mentioned an add-on for Firefox called Flashblock so I thought I'd try it out.

It's very good & blocks all Flash on a webpage but you can allow Flash on a page that you trust, I think it's going to be as useful as the Adblock add-on.

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