Friday, October 23, 2009

Free Online Games

Are you looking for free online games? If so, I'll tell you some of the sites I found which you can play games directly online. When you search for free online games on google, the result in the top few spots are pretty good and they are more or less the same. I particularly like to play my flash games on gamestertown.com. These games which I'm talking about right let users play flash games online for free right on the browser. If you are asking me this 5 years, I might have some doubt in the games quality. But now these flash games are as addicting and fun as a desktop game. I swear you can find better games on the internet instead of those comes free in Windows, specifally Windows 7 games. There isn't much new games in Windows 7 which are disappointing, I thought would have at least keep and enchance some of those old game like pinball. Well, it did enchanced most of the games bundled with Win 7, but the game I like most is not in the list. It has been removed totally from the game list! It's a huge disappointment for me, but if you like Chess, Solitaire, it's still there with better graphics.

If you are looking for more interesting online games than the one in Windows 7. Head over Gamestertown and you'll find thousands of free online games that you can play right away. No sign up, no bullshit, but you have to wait for the game to load. A side note, some games on the site are pretty old, not to say all of them are bad, but most of them are. Yuo could just try those games that are listed on the homepage. In the past, you don't see much big developers doing flash games, most of the makers are individual home developers. In recent years, there's more and more companies joined the casual gamers crowd and have made some very cool flash games. Some notable one are Mirrors Edge 2D & Alien Hominid. Go and search for them, they are free to play. Once you try it, you wouldn't believe it was made by flash software if you haven't really plat much flash games before. There are other big companies are also making flash games constantly, the most active one I can think of is Nitrome. Nitrome makes very unique pixel style flash games. All of thier production are in high qulity, some games might not to your liking, but you'll find some that you love. They produce wide variety of gameplay incliding arcade, classic, action, puzzle and shooting.

Since I'm talking about free flash games, there's another few series I'd like to recommend to point and click adventure fans. Mind you, the following games I'm going to recommend here are for hardcore puzzle fans. You could try it though and see if you like it since it's free anyway. These amazing adventure puzzle games are submachine and covert front series. These series has been out for a while and it's among the best in its genre. It's extremely hard though and might piss off some newcomers. If you are more into casual style of games, I definitely recommend you to try out Desktop Defense or Balloons Pop. I'm pretty sure you'll get addicted and keep playing for hours.

Beside the free online games I recommend above, there are some others that I recommend, but it's not for those who don't have to time to check everyday. Since free online games could means a lot such as the MMORPG. Here's a text based game that I really liked to play, it's called Utopia. If you haven't play it, you should try it totally, but beware of the addictiveness. I've been playing this games since I was in high school, that's 7 years ago! And the game is still as addicting as before, nothing has been changed much since then besides some balance tweek and a few gameplay changes. The game doesn't have any graphics like mmorpg beside some pictures. Everytime is text based, that's mean you'll be reading only text and inputing number to play. Also it's web based so you don't have to download anything to your pc, all you need is a free accout with them and you can start playing. Each game round last around 3-5 months and you'll be playing with a bunch of kingdom teamates. You can't decide which to join, it's all random. You can join the game anytime you want even the game round is about to reset. If you are first time player, it might seems a little hard at first, keep playing and learn how it works everyday. I'm sure you'll becomes better by the next round of game. It's very addictive, I warned you!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

How is file hosting site better than torrent

Torrent has been on the internet for a while so are file hosting sites. So why does file hosting getting such popularity in recent years? In the past, offering unlimited download isn't a feasible plan because the bandwidth cost is freaking expensive. Although it's getting cheaper and cheaper each year, it's still too expensive to offers unlimited download. So their plan is offers one free download at a time, that's mean you can't download 2 files at the same time in any given time, unless you are using two different IP addresses of course. And they also offers premium account which give you unlimited download speed & slot which means you can download as many files as you like at a time. Premium account comes with a price vary for each sites. Take rapidshare as example, they offers premium account at low as $3.99 per 24 hours, and it gets cheaper of you subscribe longer for a month or year. It's rather cheap and tempting to get your favourite files as quick as possible, even faster than using a torrent, torrent is free though.

There are both advantages and disadvantages using either torrent or file hosting site. It depends which works better for the users. Torrent has been involved in illegal download activities since it released and it gets lots of controversy and attention from the companies and internet provider. Your internet provider might limit your torrent download speed or block it totally as it's eating up a lot of the bandwidth & might slow down other users internet experience. Thus, peoples starting to look for alternative solution, that's file hosting sites. As you are downloading through the site server, it looks like normal downloading process and you aren't sharing anything. There's no way they can block it, but some internet provider gets clever enough to limit your bandwidth. Whatever you are doing, you can only use that much of bandwidth each month.

If you are th type of person who does not like to "seed", meaning "sharing". Using file hosting site is the best way to get free download. You'll be able to get what you want eventually if you are patient enough. Most file hosting sites even download as a free users, you can get a very decent download speed. But the bad thing is if there's no one uploading the file, you can't download it. And sometime files might be removed by the site because of inactivity or illegal content. It happens a lot, that's why you need to be fast or wait for the next upload. A lot of peoples are now using file hosting site such as rapidshare, badongo, mediafire, hotfile...etc to share their files. So it wasn't to hard to find one that you are looking for.

As for torrent, although it can be slow sometime because of less seeders. It's still the best for more stable download as you don't have to worry about disconnecting or file has been removed issues. The files will be there as long as there's seeder and you can continue where you left off anytime whereas file hosting sites don't normally support resume download. If you stop at 90% foe any reasons, then you'd have to download it all over again. It's a pain in the ass. But still, both way are free and you should be happy about it.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Run Java Games on PC

So you have downloaded some mobile games on the internet and would like test it before sending it to your mobile. Is there any way to open these mobile games on the PC. Yes, there is. But you need software to run it. You download and you run it. It's a no brainer. Unfortunately, out of the 2 software I downloaded contained spyware that will install additional tools to your PC. Thus, I don't really recommend you to use it, but if you really really need it, you can download the software from some mobile site. One of the site I know of is mobileddl.com. Try to do a search for sjboy or kwyshell

The malware that comes with the software is not impossible to remove. If you are done using it, unintall the software. If the additional software that installed in your toolbars still existed. Download ad-aware or others spyware/adware clearners sofwtare from download.com. Do a complete scan and remove all malware it founds.