January 19, 2015

Upgrade Specialist and return of the LTB – Crime City

So I’m sure you’ve seen the new Upgrade Specialist for 100 gold and several of the old LTBs have made a return. The Upgrade Specialist allow you to upgrade an additional building. For something will mean 2 buildings can be upgraded at the same time and for others this will mean 3 can be upgraded. If you didn’t get the prize from the previous event you can pay the price and get that hood upgrading. I did indeed buy the Specialist with the surplus gold I have in my account. I did not spend real cash to do it. Nor would I, the game isn’t that important. I also have another Haunted Church completed and a Diamond Grillz in the works. That will be enough gold buildings for the time being. Kind of interesting they brought these back, I suppose not enough people were spending gold, so they brought back some of the old buildings knowing people would jump at […]

January 18, 2015

The Amazon Echo – Out of the box and onto the network. Hello Alexa.

When Amazon first sent me email about their new Echo device, I was quite intrigued and looked over the material with great interest. It’s a wireless and hands-free device to play music and to be used as a basic research tool. It hooks into your Amazon music account to play music you already own and searches through all the free music (if you’re a Prime subscriber). It can also answer standard questions such as "what is the weather like today", "what time is it?" and "set a timer for 30 minutes". And while on the surface it seems pretty simple, it turns out to be a whole lot of fun! Mine showed up on Friday so I spent the weekend tinkering around with it. First of all, when you open it up, it looks like you’re unwrapping a fine bottle of Scotch. I guess Amazon took some cues from Apple on how to package a device. Opening you’re new product […]

January 15, 2015

Making and Burning ISOs on the cheap and easy with ImgBurn, VirtualCloneDrive and Daemon Tools Lite

I like cheap. I like easy. When you combine the two, you have my interest. And so it goes for making ISO images. Since it’s only 2015 and Microsoft has just figured out how to write an ISO image, clearly you’re going to have to fend for yourself. But fear not, there are plenty of ISO apps out there. Sad part is, most of them want a king’s ransom in payment which just chaps me to no end. However, before you spend good gaming money on making ISO images check out these tools for creating and mounting ISO images for free and for less than $5. First we’ll look at cheap. To mount and image I’ll go with Old Reliable, VirtualCloneDrive. This comes to us by the fine folks over at Slysoft who are known for their prowess with DVDs. Install this free tool and mount multiple disks just by double-clicking. This is great for mounting images of Windows, Office […]

January 13, 2015

IMDisk Ram Drive and SteamTool Library Manager

There’s quite a bit of information about Ram Drives out there, but it seems somewhat dated. I found one combination that looks kind of interesting. It’s a free Ram Drive tool called IMDisk and a manager for Steam games called SteamTool Library Manager. I haven’t actually worked with these yet, but from what I can gather, the process works a little something like this. You first make and mount a new Ram Drive with IMDisk. This will carve out a portion of your memory and make it appear as a hard drive with drive letter. Next, the SteamTool Library Manager allows you to copy games from your Steam library over to the ram drive. It all seems pretty straightforward doesn’t it? Some of this information is kind of old so who knows how reliable any of this is. I might be inclined to give this a try, since it doesn’t seem that hard. It’s not quite the automated set up […]

January 12, 2015

Anyone have experience with this new product called DimmDrive?

I was just browsing through Steam and up popped a new "memory management" tool called DimmDrive, which integrates with Steam and allows you to run games (or portions of a game) in a Ram Drive. Ram Drives are by no means a new idea, but this is geared towards games and decreasing their load times. All right, I’m totally intrigued. As I’ve written before, my game rig is an 8-core AMD FX8350 with 32GB of ram and it’s pretty damn fast already. It has regular spindle drives with no SSD, so I wonder if I could squeeze out some more speed with DimmDrive? I’ve been reading through a few forums and I’m not playing first person shooters, but rather racing games like Dirt 2/3, Next Car Game, Assetto Corsa and Grid Autosport. There is also my new favorite, Shroud of the Avatar. Will I see a performance boost in these games? Games work quite well now and I have no […]

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