Madame Knows Best Limited Time Quest and The Toy Box, Not For Kids Events

The Dock Rampage Event has just come to close and that sends us right in to Two brand new events for Crime City. The first is the Madame Knows Best LTQ which is a quest event in 40 parts which uses Energy to get the jobs done. The first levels will go quick, but obviously things are going to get rough toward the end. Like the previous event you get a new weapon for completing the odd levels and experience/cash for completing the even ones. I like this sort of event, you’re guaranteed to get bigger and better weapons with each level. It’s not like the Epic Boss Event where you can get Level 1 items for completing a Level 10 fight. The second part of the Event is The Toy Box, Not For Kids which is 20 days long and features an Adult Toy Store as the Limited Edition building. The initial cost is $35 million and it takes […]

Voice Dream–My Impressions After Listening for a few Hours

Now that I’ve spent some time with Voice Dream the Text to Speech Reader I wanted to share a few thoughts. First of all, for those that don’t know, Voice Dream is a text to speech reader that takes whatever text you feed it and reads it back to you while a highlighter moves across the text so you can follow along. It’s a very good idea that lets you listen to text on the go so you can keep reading your books, Word documents or web pages while you do other tasks. Voice Dream supports opening files from Dropbox, Bookshare, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg as well as the clipboard or entering text into an editor. Voice Dream can read PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Apple Pages, RTF and HTML files, so right off the bat you have a pretty big pool of resources to pull from. Really the only omission is the Kindle Mobi format, but those […]

A Quick Look Around SlimBrowser and a Trip on the SlimBoat

I’m not sure what started me on this path or how exactly I landed on the CNET page listing all the browsers, but someone I managed to discover and install SlimBrowser. It has turned out to be a good thing. For the past several years I’ve used Firefox. I jumped on board with version 2, the same time Microsoft decided that IE6 was so good it didn’t need updating. Firefox offered Tabs, plugins and slew of other features that made it truly awesome. I still love Firefox and use it everyday. But something intrigued me about SlimBrowser. It was the fact that so many features were built in, yet it was still so small. SlimBrowser has tabs, there is a SpeedDial like opening screen with the most frequently used pages listed, it has a built in Ad Blocker, it has a built in Pop Up Blocker, there is AutoFill and saving of passwords and there is an improved download manager, […]