Minecraft is an awesome and addictive game, but the only problem I have with it is the mining itself is pretty time consuming, especially when searching for the rarer materials (like Diamond). Fortunately I have now come across a mod, which saves a lot of trouble as it allows you to pinpoint all of the resources in the general area.
Here’s the demo video I made while searching for gold.
Sure it’s cheating, but less time digging, more time building cool stuff!
A few weeks ago at work I got to play with a Mac for the first time and was pretty impressed with it. This has given me a bit of motivation to get a Mac of my own to play with so I can familarise myself with the set up and also hopefully provide better support for the system in future. I’ve been looking at the Apple store quite a bit since then and the first conclusion I came to is naturally it’s all a bit expensive… I mean great value of money, as corrected by the Mac Fanboy I met the other day.
The entry level Mac is £999 (21.5 inch screen) and a Macbook with a decent sized screen is £1500. This is a bit much for me, the lowest Mac is a fairly good price but I really don’t want the additional screen on my desk as I’d have to keep moving things around each time I wanted to print something, which will get annoying really quickly. And NO, I’m not getting rid of my PC as I actually want to play games at maxed out settings!
After much looking around I’ve started to look into the Mac Mini – this is basically a stripped down standard Mac but with no screen, keyboard or mouse. I believe it will suit my needs nicely as I can connect it to the second port on my monitor and let Synergy do the rest. I don’t need a hugely powerful processor, graphics, or a hard drive. The only thing that has got me torn is do I settle for 2GB RAM or pump it up to 4GB? If I increase the RAM, it’ll set me back £650 and that’s with staff discount deducted. What do you guys think?
It’s just gone 6:30 in the morning and I haven’t been to bed yet – well, I napped for a few hours after midnight but that doesn’t count. I’ve been playing with Rainmeter for the last few hours. It’s a desktop customisation application that allows you to display different information on your desktop through various gadgets. It’s similar to to the existing Windows 7 gadgets but the possibilities seem to be endless as you can fully customise it by altering code and even the graphics to your liking.
I haven’t done anything special with it just yet as I’ve just been trying out different skins that are already out there. Some skins can just pull selected info from your PC, in my case it shows my Internet Connection, HDD usage, time and date etc. But some of the themes can be pretty comprehensive, some take up the nearly the entirety of your desktop and give you full access to applications, system info, email and RSS feeds in one hit. It really is quite impressive and it’s interesting to see what people can do with it. Another theme I’ve seen pretty much emulates the Android OS.
The application can be found here, and you can find skins here. Word of warning, a few of the skins do contain malware, but you can overcome this by checking the comments for the skin – if comments are disabled then it’s probably dodgy!
Hrmph
Posted by PooJee @ 4:01 AM, Saturday, 7th May 2011
So, the daily blogs thing didn’t quite work out. It’s probably because I don’t really have anything to talk about and I don’t really want to talk about work here, especially when having a bad couple of days.
Though I did just notice a little issue with WordPress. For the last few months when logged in to your blog a toolbar is displayed at the top of the page, which shows your icon, display name and a few other options like create a new entry or page, stuff like that. Well, when viewing the comments for my last entry there was a little pic of Kelvin as my icon. WTF MON!
