What program should you use to capture PC video game footage? Fraps. While not free, it does do everything I need for it to do. It handles both video and audio capture pretty well (there are a few bugs) but if you can look past that – it is a handy program to have. You can use it for benchmarking, screen capture or video capturing too.
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4 Best Minecraft Series
Thanks to my addiction of playing Minecraft, I have found a lot of good (and some not so good) video series on YouTube based around the mining adventure game. So, with a little free time on my hands I thought I would share with you some of my favorites video series I have stumbled upon the last few months.
Minecraft
I found a new obsession this weekend, and it’s name is Minecraft.
Minecraft, simply put, is a game where you go around building things for fun. If you want to go out and build a 400 foot monument to yourself, go for it. If you want to go dig a house out of a mountain, you can do that too. From what I have seen there really is no right or wrong way to play the game. You pretty much sit down, figure out your goal and do it.
At the core of the game, you gather resources to make things. For example, when you start out – you can go punch a tree down. Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds. You can then gather the pieces of wood to craft something else. You might make a crafting table, so then you can create a pick axe. With the pick axe, you can start mining for coal to make your torches. Then you can build a shovel to dig faster in the dirt. Before you know it, you will have an entire fort built for yourself with animals randomly spawning in your second floor (as you can see from the picture above).
You can download this amazing little game and play it again and again for only about $20 or so (technically, If you pre-purchase now during beta, you pay €14.95!) My entire Sunday was lost in Minecraft and I am sure more productivity will go down the drain soon. How else will I finish my 200 foot tall stone badger monument?
Walker Edison PC Desk Review
Spent the better part of yesterday afternoon moving out my old desk and getting a brand new one set up. Now, my old desk and I had some fun times – must have had it at least five or six years. However, the fact that any time you slightly bumped it made everything on, in and under the desk rumble finally made me decide it was time to upgrade.
5 Crazy Super Nintendo Mods
Having been an fan of the Super Nintendo for many many years, I thought I would check out some of the craziest mods people have done on the system I have loved for so many years. I don’t know if I’d have the heart to do this to my own SNES, however I do have to give them a standing ovation of innovation.
The “I Want Brains” Zombie Super Nintendo Mod
The Super Nintendo Goes Wii Mod
The Super Nintoaster Mod
The Portable Super Nintendo Mod
The My SNES is Now My PC Mod
Which one is your favorite? Being a big horror movie fan, the zombie SNES I think would be the winner for me. Then again, the toaster SNES might be the most enjoyable one to use, because of its extreme oddness.
Charge PS3 Controller on Your PC
As I shared with you yesterday, I purchased myself a PlayStation 3. One of the first questions I had after taking it out of the box was, “How do I charge the controllers?”. With my Wii, it uses rechargeable batteries, so that solution was a ‘bit easier. it looks like the PS3 controllers though have no option to do that.
So after reading the instructions (funny how many answers are in there) I figured out I needed to hook up the USB cord to my PS3 and then plug the controller in the other side. It could charge up from there, and all should be well. Charging took around/about 3 hours or so. Then I ran into problem number two.
How do I charge the second PS3 controller, when Sony only gave me one USB cord?
After doing some internet research – I found out you can charge the PS3 controllers via your PC. This way might also be better, cause then you don’t have to have the PS3 on to get the charging done. That is right, the PS3 won’t charge the controllers unless it is on the entire time. That is a ‘bit of a design flaw. I am happy to say though, my PC was a good charger, and now I have two fully charged PS3 controllers.
Since I spend some hours finding the answers to all of this, I figured I would summarize and share with you all here, just in case you find yourself in the same shoes.
Open to Podcast Feedback
Since production of the podcast has been delayed again this week due to my recent PC problems I have decided to turn a negative into a positive (but I need your thoughts). Go check out the technical difficulties post over at WebHostingShow.com.
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I need all of you to let me know what you love, what you hate, what you want more of and what you could do without this week. Give me your feedback so I can produce a better podcast just for you.
Day 10 – Dealing with HP Support
Been a few days since I had heard back from HP about my PC they have their hands on (and are hopefully fixing back up). Just as I was about to give them a phone call – I get an e-mail in giving me the same details I already knew about my order and at the bottom this new nugget of information:
Hewlett-Packard Receipt of Defective
Receipt Date of Defective Product: 05/27/2008
Expected Delivery Date: 06/05/2008
Now I know from the FedEx tracking code I have that the 27th is when they got my PC to their HQ. So does that mean I should be getting it back on the 5th of next month and it is going to take over a week to fix? Maybe I’ll still get lucky and they’ll ship it back by the end of the week.
I love my laptop, but really missing having my PC here too.
Day 2 – Dealing with HP Support
Well not much as changed, with my melted PC – so thought instead I’d make a few observations thus far:
- HP has yet to update the “status” page where I can check into the progress of all of this. With the FedEx tracking number though I do know my box should be here sometime before 4pm on Wednesday.
- I was impressed with HP’s online support. I explained my issue, showed them the pictures and they told me they’d setup a pickup for it, fix it or replace it and then send it back. They have also promised it would all take 7 to 9 days too.
- I am pretty sure I grabbed all my important documents. I copied them over to an external hard drive and then copied from there to my laptop – so all my bases should be covered there. Will probably try to do the reformat and re-install of Windows Vista tonight so it will be ready to box up and go.
Should be getting Wii Fit tomorrow too, so it should be fun to see if the UPS guy has a run in with the FedEx guy. As long as they keep their brawl out in the street, I don’t mind.
Day 1 – Dealing with HP Support
While cleaning behind my PC yesterday, I noticed something a little funny in the upper air vent that caught my eye. It looks like around my power supply, some parts on the top have melted down on top of the three copper colored coils inside. Yes, my beautiful $2,000 baby is hurting – so I had to backup and shut her down.
You can check out more photos from my Flickr account.
I contacted HP support, and they will be sending me a box to ship her back in – so I can get it fixed or replaced, and sent back here. I figured, if this disaster gives me anything it has given me something to write about so expect me to chronicle the entire experience with working with HP’s support team right here over the upcoming days.
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