Thousands of websites now offer free flash games that webmasters can add to their websites. Many website owners pass up a great opportunity with these games, not understanding their potential.
If you, for example, are creating an informational site aimed at teenagers, youre going to...
If you are still using dial-up, you have probably gotten either the You dont use DSL yet? or the You dont use cable yet? expressions of credulity. So youve decided that its probably time to get off of dial-up yet, the question remains: which is better, DSL or cable? There are advertisements...
Do I need to be a G-Code Expert?
In a word, no. You will probably need to know how to quickly scan your G-Code if you are having problems during your machining simulation. Other then that G-Code and a CNC program are throwaway programs for the most part. What do I mean by that? Let me...
Hello, and welcome to Computer Repair at Home!
If you think home computer repair is hard or next to impossible then please read this article.
Ok, so you are almost certainly here reading this because you have, or believe you have a computer predicament, or maybe your home computer...
In part 2 of this series we took a look at Creative Expression and Escapism, two significant motivators of the common gamer. The week before that, we covered Challenge and Competition. This week we have a look at Socialization and try to tie it all together.
Social interaction is a...
One last reason is that gas RC Helicopter is the best thing you get before you move to ultralight helicopter. Thus one you have a gas RC Helicopter you don’t have to require yourself to upgrade unlike if you have an electric RC Helicopter. Of course the experience is still much different...
I’m not really sure how old I was when I got the gift for Christmas, but I remember thinking it was a pretty impressive piece of electronic hardware. It was really cool looking (technologically speaking), and I was awfully proud to own it. It certainly made for lots of fun...
Last week we started to get into the motivation of the gamer. We discussed challenge and its ugly stepsister competition, two of the most common motivators. Today, we look at two more on the way to forming an overall model for what moves us.
Perhaps less common than the first two...
Gas Lift Bar Stool: Lifts You When You Need It To
Who does not know the slinky? It flips and flops over stairs and even on flat surfaces. As it moves, its different colors flash, creating breathtaking spectrums and moving works of art. If you are like most children, the Slinky(r) is...
Flip-Flops – A basic counter
We looked at the Binary system, and basic computer logic elements, in previous articles, “It’s a binary world – how computers count” and “How computers add – a logical approach”.
Now we can combine two...
There exists some ephemeral quality that separates gamers from the rest of humanity, some thing that makes us, us and them, not us. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on it, but it is inescapably there. Today, in hopes of moving closer to that essential quality of gamerosity, we...
The history of the computer inevitably includes the development of electronics, we look at the explosive (!) growth of electronics in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
If anything could be said in favor of war, it may be that it speeds up the development of technology. Of course much of...