Geraint Palmer

LCP French Interactive 1 & 2

Two Thirds were commissioned to produce two CDROMs of interactive games for Language Center Publications to allow children to reinforce there knowledge of French in there own time or as part of a class led activity. The Discs consist of 6 dynamic games driven by XML data, using a bank of audio and illustrations resulting in over 92 different games per disc that are different every time there played.

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So its finally happened, I finally turned against my Christan up bring and University Education … I took a massive man made (I like to think hand crafted) slab of brushed aluminum and stabbed it right in to my old friend Bill Gates back.

Thats right boys and girls I’ve turned to the dark polo neck jumper side and bought a macbook pro. Like the preverbal lamb I have joined the increasing number of XP generation teckies turning to Mac since the intel revolution at Cupertino.

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Every time I re install this old game I spend days searching no longer its now here Game Patch

Well if any of you out there have ever tryed to change the default windows XP folder and suddenly found your self mistically unable to open any folders without getting anything but the folder you wanted to look in then you will understand the frustration i have been facing durring the last week.

This is the second time I have come accross this really annoying bug. The first time it happend after several weeks of trying to fix the problemthe first time I resored to formating the computer.

This time however I managed to find the solution after trawing the net for serveral weeks. Anyway for any other poor soles suffering from this particular file folder affliction here’s the link to the solution.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1065792366

Yeah i can hear you all screaming GEEKK as i type..  Well for the inner lazy geek recently a whole host of frameworks have popped out of the wood work to help you do just that. and there are ones for every language you can think off her are just a few..

• Python
• TurboGears
• Django
• php
• ZooP
• Smarty (Template system “not really a Framwork”)
• Zend
• PHPKitchen

Planning a night out but you need to buy tickets!!… and your trying to organised 20 or 30 people… check out evenwax.com

Its basically an entire even organisation web application, covering front of house, sales, everything..

The greatest tool created by microsoft for transfering a large number of files from one location to another..
@ECHO OFF
ECHO.XCOPY "k:\docs\*.*" c:\SHARE\DOCS\ /D /Y /S /C /k /h /a

Don’t leave home without it!!

“Script.aculo.us is an amazing framework for enriching your website’s user experience very easily. Built on top of the very popular prototype javascript framework, scriptaculous makes AJAX cake, and gives everyone the power to have a sexy AJAX-powered website, yes everyone. Scriptaculous is a tiny (140kb) javascript framework that gives you the power of effects, several dynamic data components, and all you need to know is a little bit about HTML and how to read. If you already have your own website, it is not hard to do. Follow these steps to AJAX up your site in no time.”

This libarary is great and has some really nice effects but it can be aquard to use… from time to time.. see the origninal Download Squad artical for the gorey details and a handy cheatsheet or visit the Script.aculo.us home page.

play.com have got some great January deals on at the moment, and generally is a really great place to find cheap legal media, and electronics.

This is probably the cheapest place to get DVD’s music and games for the uk thanks mainly to tax dodging Jersey!.