Buy World of Goo, pay whatever you want
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World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
2D Boy’s celebrating the first anniversary for World of Goo by allowing gamers to purchase the Linux, Mac, and PC versions for whatever they desire.
Until October 19, download your particular version for as much as 20 gazillion, one penny, or the standard $20 cost.
Whatever you desire to pay is up to you, but you don’t have much time, so get to buying.
Νομίζω πως σιγά σιγά μπαίνουμε σε μια νέα εποχή σε ότι αφορά την ηλεκτρονική διανομή λογισμικού αλλά και τη γενικότερη εμπορική συναλλαγή μεταξύ επιχειρήσεων και πελατών. Μεγάλη είναι κατά τη γνώμη μου η συνεισφορά της Apple η οποία με το Appstore για τα iPhone και iPod Touch έδειξε για πρώτη φορά πως μια έξυπνη τιμολογιακή πολιτική μπορεί να φέρει μεγάλα έσοδα σε μια εταιρεία.
Η εταιρεία πίσω απο World of Goo ακολουθεί τα βήματα των Radiohead οι οποίοι με το album "In Rainbows" έδωσαν στο κοινό τους ην επιλογή να πληρώσει οποιοδήποτε ποσό για την απόκτηση του δίσκου. Στο χώρο τον υπολογιστών δεν θυμάμαι κάτι ανάλογο για παιχνίδι που βρίσκεται στα αρχικά στάδια της ζωής του και δεν θεωρείται abandonware.
Και για μια καλύτερη εικόνα του παιχνιδιού, δείτε το video ενώ μπορείτε να διαβάσετε και το review του παιχνιδιού απο εδώ. Για τους πολυάσχολους που δεν μπορούν να ξοδέψουν 5 λεπτά για ανάγνωση να πω πως το παιχνίδι βαθμολογήθηκε με 9/10.
iPhone home button fail
So, the only (so to speak) button of my old iPhone doesn't work. It has happened to many as it seems. And it happened to me too. To my iPhone 2G. The most common cause seems to be humidity, even though my phone was never directly exposed to large amounts (i.e never submerged 
) the warranty seems not to cover it! Getting past this (quite outrageous) fact, I needed to find a way to bypass this problem of not having a home button. So I jailbroke my iPhone and installed SBSettings, a very handy utility that can be found on Icy and Cydia. It is something like a replacement to BossPrefs, for those familiar with that. What makes this utility really handy is the fact that you can launch it just by swiping your finger across the status bar of your phone!
Stop – the iPhone music utility we were missing
If you are an iPhone user and one of those people that enjoy listening to some music when going to bed, I know you'll be glad to hear about Stop.
Stop is an iPhone/iPod utility app that gives us the ability to schedule the music to stop/pause whenever we want. So you won't be wasting any battery nor will you hear the music in the morning when you wake up!
Stop is now on the AppStore and a new version will be submitted soon that will allow the user to choose to have Stop quit automatically when the music is stopped! Let's just hope Apple will approve of such a feature 
Have a look and download it here!
This is what Apple didn't like in Stop's first submission.
This icon was rejected by Apple because it contains a trademark of theirs (kind of)... I actually saw that coming but I thought i'd give it a chance
History of internet – youtube
A great video i found out on youtube. In 8 minutes, the creators of this video summarize the whole history of internet.
Great graphics and easy to learn concepts make it a notable effort.
Infrarecorder: Ένα Opensource (free) CD-DVD Recording Software
Ξεφεύγοντας λίγο απο το κλίμα των ημερών, θα γράψω για ένα πολύ χρήσιμο προγραμματάκι που ανακάλυψα σήμερα. Πρόκειται για το InfraRecorder http://infrarecorder.org το οποίο είναι μια εναλλακτική δωρεάν πρόταση που καλύπτει τις περισσότερες απαιτήσεις αντιγραφής CD και DVD του μέσου χρήστη. Προσωπικά εδώ και χρόνια χρησιμοποιούσα το Nero Burning Rome της Ahead το οποίο είναι μεν υπερπλήρες αλλά μεγάλο σε μέγεθος, βαρύ σε απαιτήσεις και φυσικά απαιτεί πληρωμή.
Το InfraRecorder απο την άλλη είναι ελαφρύ, πολύ μικρό σε μέγεθος και πάνω απο όλα εύχρηστο και δωρεάν. Το προτείνω λοιπόν ανεπιφύλακτα. Και υπενθυμίζω πως αν ένα open-source πρόγραμμα μας βολέυει και το χρησιμοποιούμε, κάνουμε χρηματική δωρεά στους δημιουργούς του ανάλογα με τις οικονομικές μας δυνατότητες, στηρίζοντας με τον τρόπο αυτό την κοινότητα ελεύθερου λογισμικού!
Features
* Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
* Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
* Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
* Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
* Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
* Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
* Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
* Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
* Display disc information.
* Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).
Προσωπικά, μετά το τελευταίο format του υπολογιστή μου δεν εγκατέστησα το Nero και πλέον, με τη χρήση του InfraRecorder δεν πρόκειται.
Free widescreem Wallpapers
Having just recovered my pc from a serious fault, i had to format and reinstall windows Vista. First things first, so i immediately changed the default, boring windows wallpaper to something more interesting.
Interfacelift.com is the best (to my knowledge) resource for free Desktop Wallpapers. Just pick your display resolution and download! Many interesting pictures (also some HDR photographs), easy to use, no annoying ads or spyware. A must website for everyone.
Highly recommended!
Green Sock Tween
Well, for some time now i have been using TweenLite and especially TweenMax as my AS3 tweening engine. Jack has made an amazing job writing these classes and a real service to the Actionscript community by sharing them like this.
Now, i searched google for the terms "green" "sock" (which is the name of his blog) and the site was the 5th-6th result. And since this is unacceptable, there you have it; a whole blog post to boost by a tiny bit greensock's pagerank!
Films & Documentaries that make you think.
I just finished watching "Redacted" by Brian De Palma. A film about America's war on Iraq. Or rather, the American Army's attempt to stabilize the coutry, after it overthrew the goverment. In particular it depicts an incident, where in March 2006 US soldiers murdered a family and raped tha daughter before killing her too. The movie is moving and at some points disturbing. But the most important message i got was not from the movie itself. It was from this:
redacted rating difference between USA and the world
Now the first thing that struck me was of course the great difference of opinion between US voters and International voters. This shows to say the least, a lot of negativity on behalf of the majority of Americans on such matters.
The second thing to notice, is of course the surprisingly low number of votes (4,000 in total)! Brian de Palma's previous movie (which is considered mediocre) has nearly 30,000 votes. But Redacted took no publicity as it seems.
Another movie i watched recently and really enjoyed was "Lions for Lambs". This one of course is more of a movie than Redacted which wanted to be a documentary-movie. Lions for Lambs too, talks about this war. It talks about what we, ordinary people think of these situations and how far we will go (or won't...) for what we believe in.
I never held Robert Redford in high esteem to be honest, so this piece amazed me. It is one of those Hollywood movies that actually make you think.
Now, straying way way off the two aforementioned films, i would like to finish this post with a documentary i also recently watched. "Zeitgeist". Even if you don't take most of what this documentary shows as truth (though it might be), i think you broaden your mind a lot by watching it. And any other independent documentary for that matter. Zeitgeist II: Addendum has also hit the internet, but it's not nearly as good as the first. Maybe not even good at all Look for Zeitgeist in the pirate bay.
dreamgrove.org
The first phase of the dreamgrove is now complete. Feel free to plant your dream or read others' dreams on www.dreamgrove.org.
Dreamgrove is a place accessible from two portals: a webpage and a garden. It contains an archive of dreams.
At dreamgrove.org you are invited to write your dreams and plant them in a public, virtual field: there you can also read others' dreams.
The garden features a soundscape of these dreams: you can hear them through the trees.
dreamgrove.org