Twitch Plays Pokemon

Over the past week there has been a wide event taking place over at Twitch.tv called “Twitch Plays Pokémon”, or “TPP” for short. It is an online play-through of one of the classic Gameboy games “Pokémon Red”. But it’s not just one group of friends playing the game and commenting on it. Twitch Plays Pokémon is literally 70+ thousand viewers including you if you watch it, playing through this game using only commands that you typed out on your keyboard. TPP takes the concept of a thousand monkeys in a room full of typewriters, and replaces the typewriters with one Pokémon game. The results may actually surprise you.

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IFixIt Application

Ifixit is a Windows 8 application that is an all in one do it yourself manual. Ranging from electronics to around the house kind of jobs, I fix it provides a wide variety of manuals and guides for people to read and follow. This application has an easy to use interface and is as simple as clicking and going. It’s a free to use application that you can download from the Microsoft app store and can provide information on technology, vehicles, appliances, electronics, game consoles, and much more. So if you have something around the house, or something very specific that needs fixed or repaired, or even just needing general information, give the Ifixit Application a try.

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Slacker Radio Service

Have you ever been working on a project and realized you needed some music to help you get through it quicker? On any other day you would go to Pandora radio, but they seem to have the same songs going each time. With little change you begin to notice how old the stations are becoming, and how boring the music really is. But you can’t skip over that song, because then an advertisement will play through. With all of the advertisements which seem not to fit the station you’re on makes it feel less and less like a radio, but more of a paying service. Introducing Slacker radio, an improved version of the Pandora radio service that has a wider variety of music.  When the advertisements play it actually fits the station and sounds like a live radio station. Multiple genre’s to pick from and plenty to listen to, give this service a try.

Slacker Radio

Flappy Bird Review

Over the past week I’ve been hearing a lot of good and bad things about this hit sensation called “Flappy Bird”. But what is flappy bird? Believe it or not it is an Android and iOS game made by Dong Nguyen and as soon as it became a big hit, it was taken off of the map due to the creator saying he didn’t want this fame and didn’t mean for this game to be that successful. So on February 8^th Flappy Bird was taken off of the app store so no one could play the game anymore. I wondered why this game was a personal favorite by many, so I decided to look around until I found an exact copy of the game made in Flash.  So it may not be the original, but it can give me a good insight on what the hype was all about for this game.

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Brackets

Today we are going to take a look into a cool little program that makes programming in html a little bit easier. We are going to be looking at the program “Brackets”. This application was coded in Java to make programming for the web a bit easier. Automatically closing tags when you open them allows for a steady paced session. Included with this application is a wide assortment of plugins available at your disposal that should help you define tags or certain variable better. Although it does make programming for the web easier, it doesn’t just cover html. It also covers CSS, JQuery, Javascript, just to name a few. Also included is a live preview so you can see your program in action. There are some live feed changes, like color within CSS as well. So give brackets a try and speed up your performance while getting used to another IDE.

Download at: http://brackets.io/